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Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   January 19, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [Black-and-white photo of Anthony Hecht standing in front of a blackboard, reading from a book of poetry.]( Essay [More Light!]( A new biography and a Collected Poems make the case for Anthony Hecht’s greatness. By A.E. Stallings [Photograph of Super Bubble chewing gum with four words written in varying colors on one side of each piece and black marker on the other side]( Prose from Poetry Magazine [Fire, Paint, Pastels | Stones, Fans, Gum]( On writing with nontraditional media and supports. By Robert Fernandez [Young woman standing and holding a book while an audience of adults and kids looks on. They are on a beach in front of water on a clear day with two trees in the background.]( Meet Our Grantee-Partners [Meet our Grantee-Partner: University of Guam Press (UOG Press)]( University of Guam Press (UOG Press or “the Press”), which operates out of Mañgilao, Guam, is the US territory’s premier publishing house serving to educate the public on the unique history, environment, peoples, cultures, and languages of Guam and the rest of Micronesia. UOG Press was revived in 2015 to center and elevate the voices and stories of the peoples of Micronesia, who have been vastly under-represented in local, regional, and international spaces where books and ideas are shared. [Illustrated pegasus logo]( Open Door [The Poetry Foundation’s 2023 Staff Picks]( In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two) that brought them joy or comfort or pleasure this year. By Harriet Staff [Cover of Exploding Heads by Cynthia Marie Hoffman]( Book Review [Exploding Head by Cynthia Marie Hoffman]( “Try not counting these five ducks: nobody gets it. Nobody gets it. Go home. Spring is chronic. The mind is chronic.” Counting, repeating, managing intrusive thoughts—Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s dazzling fourth collection, Exploding Head, cracks open life with obsessive-compulsive disorder through second-person prose poems that follow “a haunted girl, haunted of mind.” Reviewed by Rebecca Morgan Frank [Cover of Lunar Solo by Jules Laforgue]( Book Review [Lunar Solo by Jules LaForgue, Tr. by Mark Ford]( The 19th-century French symbolist poet Jules Laforgue may not be well-known in the Anglosphere, but some of the poems featured in Lunar Solo, translated by Mark Ford, will likely be familiar to readers of T.S. Eliot REVIEWED BY Janani Ambikapathy Featured Podcasts POETRY off the shelf [Make Art for Me]( Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back. [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. © 2024 Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 USA #