Other Ways to Wear a Body

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   February 3, 2023 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A figure sits on the hood of a red car and looks across a river at another figure on the opposite bank.]( Essay [Other Ways to Wear a Body]( Transness and elegy intertwine in K. Iver’s debut collection. By Megan Milks [Black and white photo of William J. Harris leaning on a desk and lectern next to books]( Prose from Poetry Magazine [I Hope You Like Being Here With Me]( An introduction to our William J. Harris folio By Howard Rambsy II [Watercolor painting depicting black dots in various streams of circular movement against white background.]( Featured Blogger [An Inheritance of Imaginaries]( The thrum and the thrust of poetry, the levels of transgression and transcendence it could achieve, were not things I initially discovered within the pages of any book. “Written” poetry would make an appearance, somewhat later, through textbooks in middle school... By Karthika Naïr Book Review [Suggest Paradise by Ray Gonzalez]( “I was told to stop writing / about my grandmother’s tortillas,” says the speaker in Ray Gonzalez’s “Stack of Tortillas,” before reveling in their “soft texture of paradise,” suggesting a childhood innocence free of “the future where a cold / stove in darkness is where / eternity is served its meal.” REVIEWED BY REBECCA MORGAN FRANK Book Review [How To Maintain Eye Contact by Robert Wood Lynn]( In How to Maintain Eye Contact by Robert Wood Lynn, “the good earth” has ended or is ending. For the speaker wandering it, the world’s collapse empties its beginning: “In west Kendall, backed up against // the national park, I was sure the world was over. And three / miles in, that it hadn’t ever begun.” REVIEWED BY CINDY JUYOUNG OK Featured Podcasts POETRY MAGAZINE [Building a Sustainable Writing Practice with Stefania Gomez, Maggie Queeney, and Holly Amos, Plus More Writing Prompts]( Associate editor Holly Amos enlists poets and educators Stefania Gomez and Maggie Queeney to share some of their inspirations, tips, challenges, and resources for creating a sustainable writing practice, plus Holly shares two writing prompts. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen POETRY off the shelf [Intimate Distance]( Gabrielle Bates on betrayal, home church, and living in her mother’s slaughterhouse. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen VS [Maya Marshall vs. Priorities]( Join us this week in Atlanta, where Brittany and Ajanae sit down with Maya Marshall to discuss Maya’s debut collection, All the Blood Involved in Love (Haymarket Press). This conversation centers around choice, obligation and priorities, both on and off the page. Listen as they navigate falling in love, managing illness, choosing between work and family, and much more! [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen Poem Talk [Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman]( Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Lisa Fishman, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, and 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. © 2023 Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 USA #