On the Other Side of the Alphabet

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   April 1, 2022 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [Picture of Anna Mendelssohn walking outside of Holloway Prison in London .]( Essay [I Worship at the Shrine of Poetry]( Anna Mendelssohn, once imprisoned as an alleged terrorist, challenges easy truisms about the relation between politics and poetry. By David Grundy [Textural artwork of peach and gray-toned ink heavily scribbled and overlaid.]( Essay [On the Other Side of the Alphabet]( In Customs, Solmaz Sharif excavates the fraught political and cultural inheritances of language. By Noah Warren [Detail of "Giverny" by Sara Katz]( collection [Spring Poems]( Classic and contemporary poems to celebrate the advent of spring. By The Editors [Woodcut on paper, wide stripes in shades of grey, brown, yellow, black, and light blue.]( Featured Blogger [Translation as Praxis]( I have often wondered whether being a translator might be the worst possible way to finance my writing addiction. Not only is the income earned through freelance translation highly unpredictable, but also, spending all day immersed in the (re)writing of... By Juana Adcock The Poetry Foundation is seeking feedback from people who engage with its programs to inform the strategic plan it is currently developing. [Complete the survey by April 4, 2022](. Featured Podcasts POETRY MAGAZINE [Srikanth Reddy and CM Burroughs on Margaret Danner]( Guest editor Srikanth Reddy and poet CM Burroughs dive into the world of Margaret Danner, a poet and editor who never achieved the recognition she deserved in her lifetime. They discuss Danner, race in America, and faith. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen POETRY off the shelf [Blossoms in Ukraine]( Oksana Maksymchuk and Oksana Lutsyshyna on life as a refugee, the God of comfort, and the deep roots of the war. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen VS [Roll Call: All The Apostles are Black, All the Saints Queer, and All of Them Are Brave (Pt.2)]( Hello, hi Beloveds! Welcome back to the second installment of our Roll Call episode. We are your hosts, [Kopano Maroga]( and [Maneo Mohale,]( we are sluts for history and sluts for discourse and are going to be picking the brains of our fabulous guests [Koleka Putuma]( (featured in part 1) and [Nakhane]( (featured in part 2) speaking all things blackness, South Africanness, craft, microaggressions, white twinks and black queer ancestors. We are joined in these episodes by voicenote interludes from black, queer South African artists Gugulethu Duma (aka [Dumama]( who opens and closes the show), [Lindiwe Mngxitama]( and [Kneo Mokgopa](. Special thanks to our magnificent producer, Maia McDonald, and our generous mentors, Danez Smith and Jenna Wortham, for holding space for us and holding our hands through the process. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen Poem Talk [Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters]( Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Lee Ann Brown, Kristen Gallagher, Laynie Browne. [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. © 2022 Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 USA #