Out of Your Head and Into Your Body

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   March 15, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A portrait of John Sinclair making a peace sign while smoking a joint. He wears a yellow shirt with a marijuana leaf on it.]( Essay [Out of Your Head and Into Your Body]( Six decades of revolution with John Sinclair. By Rebecca Kosick [A photomontage in which a large gold cube looms over a field of rubble.]( Essay [But There Are Other Geometries]( On cubes, love, and fate. By A.V. Marraccini [Colorful painting of a bird flying over a field of wheat and red poppies.]( Poem Guide [“A Bird in Bishopswood” by John Tickhill]( A melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document. By Eric Weiskott [A wide shot of a young student reading poetry to a seated audience at the All Schools Reading. Three other students stand in the background, awaiting their turn to read.]( Foundation News [Meet Our Grantee-Partner: Chicago Poetry Center]( The Chicago Poetry Center (CPC) was founded in response to literary censorship trials in Chicago in the 1950s. The trials led local writers and editors to organize and begin building informal publication and performance spaces that welcomed diverse contemporary voices. [Cover of Origins of the Syma Species by Tares Oburumu]( Book Review [Origins of the Syma Species by Tares Oburumu]( “I know I didn’t come to this earth by dust alone. Someone must have brought me here by hand?” says the speaker in a poem from Tares Oburumu’s Origins of the Syma Species. Oburumu’s quest after a point of origin is often eclectic, and thick with personal mythology. REVIEWED BY JANANI AMBIKAPATHY [Cover of Quicker Than the Eye by Joe Fiorito]( Book Review [Quicker Than the Eye by Joe Fiorito]( A collection of minimalist poems, Quicker Than the Eye begins with an abridged history of oral storytelling: “In an instant, there is a person, a thing, an action.” Joe Fiorito came to poetry from journalism, which, as he writes, is “quicker than the eye.” REVIEWED BY VIRGINIA KONCHAN [Cover of Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok]( Book Review [Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok]( “When it comes to survival there is no right // way but there’s no wrong way either,” writes Cindy Juyoung Ok in her debut poetry collection, Ward Toward. With a candor bolstered by curiosity and experimentation, the author weaves experiences of isolation and dislocation (both physical and psychological) into her poems, while maintaining an awareness of the inadequacy of language to capture or describe reality. REVIEWED BY LEONORA SIMONOVIS Featured Podcasts POETRY off the shelf [All the Shiny Knives]( Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors. [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 #