Potluck: Editor’s Discussion, November 2022

Dear Readers,

I look out the window behind my desk at the Poetry Foundation, and I see that nearly all the leaves have fallen off the trees here in Chicago. A few stragglers remain on the branches, sure, but the chill in the air foreshadows their doom. It seems just yesterday I was writing enthusiastically about Halloween, and now, “November has come to the forest” and “the year fades with the white frost,” as our October 11th Kenneth Rexroth Poem of the Dayselection predicted. The fall moves quickly, especially a fall of big projects!

With November upon us, I share a potluck of happenings and announcements with you:

• Look forward to November Poem of the Day selections featuring National Native American Heritage Month and NaNoWriMo—if you “No,” you know! To help keep you writing and at your target word count, we’ve incorporated articles and prompts to select editor’s notes for this month.
• A special archival exhibit on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land after 100 years of publication is coming to the website. Read about the exhibit in this blog post.
• The Poetry Foundation’s very popular VS podcast is back! Listen to this “preview” episode, “Danez & Franny VS Getting Grown,” that brings together the first set of podcast hosts with the next generation.
• The 110th anniversary celebrations of Poetry magazine are underway; check out this collection for special anniversary content, including editor Adrian Matejka’s first magazine editor’s note for the October issue.

Power to the Trees,

Robert Eric Shoemaker