Not a Game

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   August 4, 2023 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A collage of a basketball player with a map forming the background.]( Essay [Not a Game]( Two new genre-bending books by Terrance Hayes find freedom in individuality. By Keith D. Leonard [A collage made of waste paper, featuring two figures standing at either end of a green car.]( Essay [What Home Is Isn’t That]( In The Diaspora Sonnets, Oliver de la Paz explores immigration in personal and linguistically patterned lyrics. By Kimberly Alidio [Photo of an art installation, eight red clay bowls with many cracks running through them, set against a a red clay backdrop that is also cracking, within a wooden frame.]( Featured Blogger [Cracking Up, Breaking Down]( After the pandemic, I understood surrender. It was February 2020, my father had just died, we’d sold our childhood home in Miami, and I was helping my mother move, when international borders suddenly closed. Like many others who were separated from their families, I was apart from my husband and kids for three full moons: The Worm Moon, Pink Moon, Flower Moon. By Chen Chen [Cover of Shadow Act: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley by Daniel Brock Johnson]( Book Review [Shadow Act: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley by Daniel Brock Johnson]( Shadow Act, Daniel Brock Johnson weaves together prosaic moments from his daily life with words drawn from the diaries and letters of his close friend, the journalist James (Jim) Foley, who was murdered by ISIS in 2014. By Daniel Brock Johnson [Cover of The Stone Serpent by Nouri al-Jarrah]( Book Review [The Stone Serpent by Nour Al-Jarrah, tr. by Catherine Cobham]( Translated from Arabic by Catherinem Cobham, Stone Serpent reads like an archive of characters and languages that show up in unexpected places; poems that dream of insurgent histories are a reminder that the void is also full of possibility. By Nouri Al-Jarrah [This image features the poets at the Afro-Latinx Poetry Now gathering In September, 2022, whose writing will be featured in the post-gathering folio at Chiricú Journal. Six poets are sitting casually on a couch and smiling.]( Foundation News [Meet our Grantee-Partner: Letras Latinas]( After receiving a $40,000 [Equity in Verse grant]( in fall 2022, Letras Latinas set out to transform and relaunch its blog, which offers insight and commentary on contemporary letters, especially poetry. Featured Podcasts POETRY MAGAZINE [torrin a. greathouse and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Form as Open-Source Software and Being Loud on the Page]( This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok talks with torrin a. greathouse, a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist who is the author of the forthcoming DEED (Wesleyan University Press), as well as Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020). Ok and greathouse get into poetic forms—which they liken to open-source software—particularly the beloved “burning haibun” form that greathouse created and that she wrote about for Poetry’s “Not Too Hard to Master” series. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen POETRY off the shelf [Invisible Hands]( Airea D. Matthews on self-interest, starry skies, and her parents’ fateful wedding day. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen Poem Talk [Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”]( Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Robert von Hallberg, Charles Altieri, and Marjorie Perloff. [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 #