There’s Nothing in the World Smaller Than the Universe

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   May 10, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [An illustration of a dark, silhouetted figure breaking open an egg out of which spills water, planets, and the cosmos.]( Essay [There’s Nothing in the World Smaller Than the Universe]( In The Invention of the Darling, Li-Young Lee presents divinity as spirit and matter, profound and quotidian, sacred and profane. By Ed Simon [Headshot of Michael Frazier]( Prose from Poetry Magazine [It’s Not a Mask If You Wear It Right]( On writing persona poetry. By Michael Frazier [Two women sitting together.]( collection [Poems for Mother’s Day]( Contemporary poems for and about the moms in our lives. By The Editors [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 All About You by Chris Nealon]( Book Review [All About You by Chris Nealon]( About You, Chris Nealon’s fifth collection, undercuts its own learned allusiveness—conversing with Virgil, Napoleon, Antonio Gramsci, Theodor W. Adorno, W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, and Alice Notley, among others—with nimble wit, savant revisionism, and devotional pathos. REVIEWED BY Virginia Konchan [Cover of Lonespeech by Ann Jäderlund]( Book Review [Lonespeech by Ann Jäderlund, Tr. by Johannes Göransson]( Ann Jäderlund’s Lonespeech, translated from Swedish by Johannes Göransson, draws on letters between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan to explore the inherent difficulty of communication. REVIEWED BY Janani Ambikapathy [Cover of The Selkie by Morgan Võ]( Book Review [The Selkie by Morgan Võ]( Morgan Võ’s debut poetry collection, The Selkie, explores the disappearance and displacement both of small commercial enterprises in a capitalist economy and of the people who earn their living from these businesses. REVIEWED BY Leonora Simonovis Featured Podcasts POETRY off the shelf [The Fire in Which We Burn]( Sara Henning on radical truth, obsessive forms, and letting go of grief. [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 #