Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and More

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]  December 14, 2018 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [Abstract collage of two men recording]( Essay [Caught on Tape]( For avant-garde poets, audio recording was both a breakthrough and a threat. By Evan Kindley [Image of Amiri Baraka]( Open Door [The Last Black Radical: How Cuba Turned LeRoi Jones Into Amiri Baraka]( My favorite black radical, the artist formerly known as LeRoi Jones, I’d assumed until recently was born with a special capacity for revolutionary consciousness, not made that way. And I was wrong. By Harmony Holiday [Poetry Off the Shelf]( Audio [100 Years of Hopkins]( The centenary of the first volume by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit Victorian experimentalist was posthumously published among the Modernists. [Listen to audio version]( Listen [Illustration of Ruth Lilly 2018 Winners]( Prose from Poetry Magazine [Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows 2018]( By The Editors Featured Podcasts POETRY MAGAZINE [Tarfia Faizullah reads "Yr Not Exotic, But Once Ya Wanted to Be"]( The editors discuss Tarfia Faizullah’s poem “Yr Not Exotic, But Once Ya Wanted to Be” from the December 2018 issue of Poetry. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen POETRY off the shelf [100 Years of Hopkins]( The centenary of the first volume by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit Victorian experimentalist was posthumously published among the Modernists. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen poetrynow [I Make Promises Before I DreamÂ]( Tongo Eisen-Martin examines the institutions artists and artworks occupy and uses writing as a challenge to power. Produced by Katie Klocksin. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen VS [Jamila Woods vs. The Remedy]( Can we fanperson out for a goshdarn second? We have the one and only Jamila Woods in the building! She talks about her family’s penchant for healing, sampling loopholes, lactose tolerance, bad interviews, and more. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen Poem Talk [Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”]( Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Amber Rose Johnson, Tonya Foster, and Davy Knittle. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen  [More Featured Podcasts]( SUBSCRIBE [Buy One Gift One]( [GET POETRY]( [The Poetry Foundation]( [The Poetry Foundation on Twitter]( [The Poetry Foundation on Facebook]( [The Poetry Foundation on Instagram]( [The Poetry Foundation on Tumblr](  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. © 2018 Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 USA #                              Â