Look At Me, and I Will Look At You

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   June 7, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A glowing white figure in a dark landscape looms over a woman who is stretching toward it.]( Essay [Look At Me, and I Will Look At You]( In Two Minds, Callie Siskel reflects on the ghost of her famous father. By J. Howard Rosier [Headshot of Lisa Jarnot]( Prose from Poetry Magazine [From “Abandon the Creeping Meatball: An Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise”]( I’d like to think of this essay as an opportunity to peer into some rooms that are for me essential to my life as a poet. By Lisa Jarnot [Illustration of a moody green landscape with columns, abstract bushes, and shadows of people.]( Poem Guide [Federico García Lorca’s “Dreamwalking Ballad”]( Metaphor in Lorca is a form of gorgeous shorthand. By Sarah Arvio [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. Foundation News [Poetry Foundation Awards $1,530,000 in Grants]( The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 54 nonprofit organizations that received $1,530,000 in funding in our spring 2024 grant cycle. Selected from more than 200 grant applications, this impressive roster of grantee-partners is committed to increasing access to poetry and supporting poets through providing resources to historically underserved poets and writers, poetry activities for youth, writing workshops for adults, festivals, residencies, publications, and more. [Cover of Just Like by Lee Sumyeong]( Book Review [Just Like by Lee Sumyeong, tr. by Colin Leemarshall]( title of Lee Sumyeong’s first collection in English, Just Like, translated from Korean by Colin Leemarshall, invites an immediate (mis)reading: that the translation is just like the original text. REVIEWED BY Janani Ambikapathy [Cover of Geometry of the Restless Herd by Sophie Cabot Black]( Book Review [Geometry of the Restless Herd by Sophie Cabot Black]( Geometry of the Restless Herd, Sophie Cabot Black’s fourth collection, troubles the intersection between pastoral and metaphysical traditions. REVIEWED BY Virginia Konchan [Cover of What of the Earth Was Saved by Leeladhar Jagoori]( Book Review [The Farewell Light by Nidia Hernández, tr. by Rowena Hill]( “I dedicate these poems of compound times / to all the people who have been a part of me. // I didn’t mean to publish them,” writes Venezuelan poet Nidia Hernández in The Farewell Light, translated into English by Rowena Hill. REVIEWED BY Leonora Simonovis 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 #