The Ultimate Bone

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   May 12, 2023 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A closeup painting of lips with a fly crawling on them.]( Essay [The Ultimate Bone]( Sex meets death in Deborah Landau’s Skeletons. By Lara Glenum [Photograph of Assotto Saint]( Prose from Poetry Magazine [Still]( An introduction to our Assotto Saint folio. By Pamela Sneed [Black and grey ink drawing on paper]( collection [Disability Poetics]( Poetry of Liberation By Jennifer Bartlett & Sheila Black [Illustration of Gwendolyn Brooks]( Collection [Gwendolyn Brooks: A Chicago Legacy]( Celebrations of Brooks with One Poem, One Chicago By THE EDITORS [Lithograph on paper, black lines that appear like nets or screens folded in over themselves with curved frames and a shadow effect.]( Featured Blogger [Murmurations (II)]( The word arrhythmic, from the Greek arrhythmos or without rhythm, did not always have such a strong association with the human heart. Broadly, arrhythmic means loss of rhythm, like a lack of a structured repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry, in notes, in music. When Plato wrote in Laws: “Order in movement is called rhythm,” he suggested rhythm is a kind of organizing principle of the soul. By Nilufar Karimi [Cover of Dreaming the Mountain by Tuě Sỳ]( Book Review [Dreaming the Mountain]( author Tuệ Sỹ became a Zen monk in the 1950s when he was just a boy. Dreaming the Mountain collects the renowned poet’s work, from his early days as an academic, his mid-career years through war and imprisonment, and his later life. REVIEWED BY SYLEE GORE [Cover of Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art by Dean Rader]( Book Review [Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art]( In Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, Dean Rader begins at the end, with his father’s recent death and a retrospective, each a lens through which to experience the other. REVIEWED BY CINDY JUYOUNG OK Featured Podcasts POETRY MAGAZINE [Marie Howe and Charif Shanahan on Ecopoetics, Spirituality, and Losing Oneself]( Guest editor Charif Shanahan asks Marie Howe the Big Questions about writing into the unknown, losing oneself in poems, spirituality, the ineffable, teaching and mentorship, and more. We’ll hear two new poems by Howe from the May issue of Poetry, as well as two older poems, including “Prayer,” which lives above Shanahan’s writing desk. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen POETRY off the shelf [As Best I Could]( Aaron Smith on shame, telling the truth, and his mother’s last lipstick. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen VS [Jacqui Germain vs. Specificity]( Tune in this week as Brittany and Ajanaé interview Jacqui Germain about her debut collection, Bittering the Wound. In this episode, they discuss cartoons as a space of enjoyment, St. Louis as a persona, the intimacy of specificity, and the necessary role of contradictions in everyday life. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen Poem Talk [Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”]( Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Chantine Akiyama Poh, Henry Steinberg, and Murat Nemet-Nejat. [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 #