He Became a Fabulous Opera

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   May 24, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A black-and-white photograph of Delmore Schwartz looking at the camera.]( Essay [He Became a Fabulous Opera]( Delmore Schwartz is often touted as an exemplary literary tragedy. A long-overdue Collected Poems showcases his extravagant genius—and his failures. By R.K. Hegelman [A photograph of Tomaž Å alamun looking into the camera, his hands folded.]( Essay [Like the Thinking of Trees]( On reading Tomaž Šalamun. By Ilya Kaminsky [Poets from the program give fun poses as a full group.]( Foundation News [Meet Our Grantee-Partner: The Watering Hole]( Candace G. Wiley and Monifa Lemons Jackson attended Cave Canem South Workshops in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2010 and 2011. Their experience as Cave Canem fellows inspired them to recreate a similar meaningful, safe, and growth-oriented writing community for Southern poets of color. In 2009, they started a Facebook Group named “The Watering Hole,” and in 2013, they held their first writing retreat on South Carolina’s Lake Marion. [Cover of Good Monster by Diannely Antigua]( Book Review [Good Monster by Diannely Antigua]( isn’t an apology but rather a confession: / I loved your body before I was born.” These are the first lines of “Someday I’ll Stop Killing Diannely Antigua,” the opening poem in Antigua’s collection, Good Monster, whose focus is the body, both wounded and whole, and the experiences that have led the speaker to see herself as a monster. REVIEWED BY Leonora Simonovis [Cover of Lonespeech by Ann Jäderlund]( Book Review [Waders by Andrew Motion]( Andrew Motion’s Waders opens with “Evening Traffic,” a study of witness and perception that introduces a speaker whose mind figures as a sieve for nature and the world. REVIEWED BY Virginia Konchan [Cover of What of the Earth Was Saved by Leeladhar Jagoori]( Book Review [What of the Earth Was Saved by Leeladhar Jagoori, tr. by Matt Reeck]( In “Inter-India Mail,” originally published just after the Indian Emergency, Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori (b. 1940) writes: don’t put anything in this letter not your thoughts not your memories don’t put anything in this letter REVIEWED BY Janani Ambikapathy Featured Podcasts POETRY off the shelf [Style All the Way Down]( Joyelle McSweeney on sound, style icons, and the Ovidian landscape of her ear canal. [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 #