Spoken Like a True Poet

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   March 31, 2023 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A collage that features Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and a crowd of listeners. Cut-out headlines read: "Impact of the Community," "Truth is on its way," "we're all in this together," and "radical dreams time to become."]( Essay [Spoken Like a True Poet]( In Joshua Bennett’s history of spoken word, poetry is alive and well thanks to a movement that began in living rooms and bars. By Stephen Kearse [Six pairs of silhouettes stand behind patterned textures, as if contained in them.]( Essay [Authentic Fake]( Monica Youn’s From From troubles the notion of a fixed identity. By Mia You [A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London.]( Poem Guide [The Hearers to Collection: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land]( Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness? By Tyler Malone collection [Better Craftsmen, Not Gods]( An Online Exhibit on the Editing of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land By Tyler Malone & Robert Eric Shoemaker Archive Editor's Note [In Her Footsteps: Editor’s Discussion, March 2023]( Our ancestors, who include both born and chosen family, pass poetry on to us. A Poetry Foundation reader’s email reminded me of the inspiration elders can offer new readers of poetry. Stephanie, on behalf of her daughter, Jess, emailed to ask if we might consider adding an online resource to our offerings. By Robert Eric Shoemaker [Multicolored cube collage composed of sheet metal, wood, steel brads, with image of an empty wooden chair on one corner.]( Featured Blogger [Alliteration (Part III)]( In the previous part of this essay, I explored definitions of alliteration as the presence of one sound in multiple words (conventional alliteration); the presence of one word in another word (wordplay or paronomasia); and the presence of an earlier poem in a later poem (allusion). By Armen Davoudian [Cover of To the Boy Who Was Night by Rigoberto González]( Book Review [To the Boy Who Was Night]( always been violent toward stars.” So begins “Stars Breaking,” a poem from the earliest of six collections represented alongside new work in [Rigoberto González]( To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New. By Rigoberto González [Cover of Tripas by Brandon Som]( Book Review [Tripas]( Aristotle, Li Po, Ezra Pound: these are among the cited sources of Brandon Som’s The Tribute Horse (2014), whose textual collages map the arduous passage of Chinese migrants and poetry to North America. By Brandon Som [Portrait of Alice Notley by Alex Katz showing a woman with long, straight brown hair and large blue eyes.]( event [Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets]( Painter Alex Katz’s extensive collaborations with poets are the subject of this exhibition, the very first to bring together the full range of materials that showcase these connections. [The Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships]( The Poetry Foundation is currently accepting applications for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, providing support for poets ages 21-31. In 2023, five $27,000 fellowships will be awarded. Application deadline: April 14th [The Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism]( The Poetry Foundation is currently accepting nominations for the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, honoring an outstanding book-length work of poetry criticism published in 2022. Eligible works for this $10,000 prize include biographies, essay collections, and critical editions that consider the subject of poetry or poets. Application deadline: April 14 Featured Podcasts POETRY MAGAZINE [Nam Le and Lindsay Garbutt on Language as an Ecology of Violence and Corruption, the Pain of Being a Writer, and the Value of Uncertainty]( Senior Editor Lindsay Garbutt speaks with Nam Le, whose debut book, the short story collection The Boat, was translated into fourteen languages and received over a dozen major awards, about his much anticipated first poetry collection, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen POETRY off the shelf [Mom, I Love You]( Mahogany L. Browne on her first kiss, family secrets, and having your book banned. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen VS [Golden vs. The Self Portrait]( In this episode, Ajanae and Brittany spend time in conversation with their guest, Golden; listen as they discuss creating a living archive, their space in the lineage of Black Formalist poets, and the ways that self-portraits have shaped their writing practice. Golden also discusses the process of placing their second collection, and leaning into the vulnerability of writing about the self. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen Poem Talk [Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney]( Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Divya Victor, Whitney Trettien, and Dagmawi Woubshet. 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