The Crown Prince of Bad Judgment

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   July 19, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A black-and-white photograph of the poet Bill Knott reading a book in a messy room piled with books, newspapers, and furniture.]( Essay [The Crown Prince of Bad Judgment]( From the beginning of his career, Bill Knott presented himself as an outsider, an underdog, and a combative “minor poet.” By Sandra Simonds [A white woman with short red hair wearing a green pullover and a plaid overalls standing by a tree. The background is bright green.]( Prose from Poetry Magazine [I Give You an Onion: The Poetry of Duffy and Hill]( On two UK poets. By Kim Moore [An illustration that contains floral gear-like patterns of layered green colors]( Poem Guide [Felix Culpa-bility: Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”]( For a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form. By Tyler Malone [Six adult women; three are Torch staff in yellow shirts that say Torch and two authors and Torch's executive director are wearing black. All are smiling and facing the camera in a room with green foliage and colorful posters.]( Foundation News [Meet Our Grantee-Partner: Torch Literary Arts]( As a Black woman poet who became the first to serve as the Texas Poet Laureate, Amanda Johnston was familiar with the joys and challenges of building a literary career. She envisioned a community where emerging and experienced Black women writers from across the diaspora could receive creative and professional support and have their literary contributions valued and celebrated. In 2006, she founded Torch Literary Arts in Austin, Texas, to provide intentional, essential services and love for Black women writers. [Cover of Cahier by Friedericke Mayröcker]( Book Review [Cahier by Friederike Mayröcker, tr. by Donna Stonecipher]( Friederike Mayröcker’s cahier, translated from German by Donna Stonecipher, the poems read like collages—typographical symbols, punctuation, parts of speech, and so forth, are treated as images and arranged on the page based on a connection known only to the poet. REVIEWED BY Janani Ambikapathy [Cover of Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin]( Book Review [Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin]( This tension between language as a malleable construct and physical expressions of it, in speech or writing, is at the center of Dawn Lundy Martin’s latest collection, Instructions for the Lovers. REVIEWED BY Leonora Simonovis Featured Podcasts POETRY off the shelf Camille Dungy on her garden, writing from the provinces, and the poetry of Anne Spencer. [Listen to the episode here.](   [More Featured Podcasts]( [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 #