Poetry Foundation Newsletter: September 25, 2024

Poetry Foundation Newsletter [Colorful graphic with letters ECOS surrounded by blue, pink, and green. Colorful bricks float around the letters.] Program ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival ECOS: A Chicago Latine Poetry Festival celebrates Chicago’s relationship with and influence on Latine poetry. The festival will feature free, bilingual Spanish and English programming, including poetry readings and performances, writing workshops, live music, storytime for kids, and more across several Chicago neighborhoods from September 26-28. [Learn More and Register to Attend]( Feature Promise Kept BY La Marr Jurelle Bruce In addition to “lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” this book reveals a Lorde who is akin to flower, volcano, tree, star, whale, honeybee, diamond, meteor, burst of light, and more. [Read More]( [Image of Audre Lorde.] Inside the September 2024 Issue [image] [View Issue]( [arrow] Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Sandra Jackson-Opoku Christian J. Collier Nicolás Guillén Elizabeth Willis Aaron Coleman Nora Brooks Blakely Morri Creech Justin Danzy Angela Jackson Gwendolyn Brooks M.L. Martin Srikanth Reddy Kristi Stout Heather Christle Joan Kwon Glass Layla Benitez-James Prose from Poetry From “Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink”: On Emily Dickinson’s Similes BY Srikanth Reddy Dickinson’s uncertainty—“Have any like Myself”—lurks under the surface of every original simile. Have any, like myself, thought the news runs like squirrels? Sometimes, alas, the answer is no. [Read More]( [Srikanth Reddy] Book Review 2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase Reviewed by Leonora Simonovis 2000 Blacks captures the author’s reflections on what it means to be a Black man in a country where, on entering one’s living room, one finds that “another black man was dying / on the TV screen.” [Read More]( [2000 Blacks] Book Review Tablets: Secrets of the Clay by Dunya Mikhail Reviewed by Janani Ambikapathy In a note to the reader, Mikhail wonders if the images on the clay tablets represent objects or if they are symbols and codes. Mikhail’s own take on the relationship between image and words is less obscure—her drawings are fairly straightforward renderings of the objects that appear in the poems. [Read More]( [Mikhail TABLETS] Book Review Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms by Joan Kwon Glass Reviewed by Leonora Simonovis Glass’s book is permeated by a deep-seated sorrow; memories of her sister’s and nephew’s deaths resurface at different times, echoing other moments of tragedy and loss in the family’s past. [Read More]( [DAUGHTER front 2024 05 18] Featured Podcasts Poetry Off the Shelf Painting From Life Garth Greenwell on shame, small acts of love, and the patch of snow inside us. [arrow] [Listen to Audio]( [More Podcasts]( [arrow] [Poetry Magazine] [Subscribe Today!]( [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 [The Poetry Foundation](