Not Senseless, Not Angels

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   April 26, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A black-and-white photograph in side profile of Alice Duer Miller, dressed in a fur coat and a feathered black hat.]( Essay [Not Senseless, Not Angels]( For nearly a half-century, Alice Duer Miller wrote sardonic and defiantly feminist work that found favor from Hollywood to the White House. By Joy Lanzendorfer [A black-and-white photograph of C.K. Williams looking into the camera.]( Essay [More Even Than Itself]( A career-spanning selection of C.K. Williams underscores his restless virtuosity. By Daisy Fried [Geometric painting of white, black, and red shapes on a drip and wash style canvas background.]( Poem Guide [Tristan Tzara: Survival and “Speaking Alone”]( Silence and speech in post-war France By Heather Green [A group of women in purple graduation caps and gowns with yellow sashes. In the foreground, a woman has her arm around her young daughter in a red dress as she holds a diploma in her other hand.]( Foundation News [Meet Our Grantee-Partner: The Care Center]( The Care Center serves women living in Hampden County, Massachusetts who encounter barriers to finishing high school or pursuing higher education. Over the course of four decades, The Care Center has designed an environment that fosters educational success while meeting the unique needs of its students, most of whom are young mothers. It operates on the belief that a mother’s education helps set her family up for a better life, impacting not only her children, but generations to come. [Cover of No Gods Live Here by Conceição Lima]( Book Review [No Gods Live Here by Conceição Lima, tr. by Shook]( Gods Live Here by Conceição Lima is a bilingual Portuguese–English edition of the poet’s work, with translation by Shook. Lima is a Santomean poet from São Tomé, one of the two islands in the nation of São Tomé and Príncipe where Portuguese explorers arrived in 1470, and to which a large number of West Africans were forcefully moved and enslaved on plantations. REVIEWED BY Janani Ambikapathy [Cover of Reader, I by Corey Van Landingham]( Book Review [Reader, I by Corey Van Landingham]( Corey Van Landingham’s Reader, I moves between intimate address and artful uncovering of foundational myths relating to the institution of marriage. REVIEWED BY Virginia Konchan [Cover of YOU]( Book Review [YOU by Rosa Alcalá]( “I rose from sleep one night, my back a trouble tense, and rode in reverse / from the idiopathic to what I believed were the glories // each scene an indulgence of a body I possessed,” writes Rosa Alcalá in “How It Started, How It’s Going {An Introduction},” the opening poem of her fourth collection, YOU. REVIEWED BY Leonora Simonovis Featured Podcasts POETRY off the shelf [My Heart and Its Borders]( Philip Metres on middle age, writer’s block, and praying for the people of Palestine. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen   [More Featured Podcasts]( SUBSCRIBE [GET POETRY]( [The Poetry Foundation]( [The Poetry Foundation on Twitter]( [The Poetry Foundation on Facebook]( [The Poetry Foundation on Instagram](   You have received this email because you submitted your email address at www.poetryfoundation.org. You may [unsubscribe]( or [change]( your newsletter subscription preferences at any time. © 2024 Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 USA #