For the Left Hand Alone

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   November 10, 2023 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A blue ink wash composition of a figure playing a piano with one hand. Below him is grass and behind him are clouds.]( Essay [For the Left Hand Alone]( A new edition of Tomas Tranströmer’s collected works showcases his wild associative leaps. By Jared Marcel Pollen [Headshot of Margaret Walker]( Poem Guide [Margaret Walker’s “For My People”]( There is lightness within these downtrodden lives! By CM Burroughs [Black and white line-drawn cartoon of a hunched woman wielding a hammer over the horseshoe of a watching winged horse.]( Archive Editor's Note [“A Public for Poetry”: On Harriet Monroe and Poetry]( “We believe that there is a public for poetry, that it will grow, and that as it becomes more numerous and appreciative the work produced in this art will grow in power, in beauty, in significance.” By Robert Eric Shoemaker Foundation News [Meet our Grantee-Partner: Sundress Publications]( Sundress Publications operates out of Knoxville, Tennessee, serving writers of all experience levels in any writing discipline. Founded in 2000 as a home for online literary journals, it now publishes books in print, runs a writers’s residency, and hosts free writing events, workshops, and reading series. [Gelatin silver print featuring up close of ocean waves beneath a cloud-filled sky, with a rectangular shape superimposed on the sky magnifying the clouds and leaving a shadow on the waves.]( Featured Blogger [Discipline Like a Saturday Afternoon]( Saturday… late morning, damn-near noon, and I’m thinking about influences, role models, and what I admire in the work they do. As I get older, I’ve come to admire discipline, the ability to focus and to keep at the work. By A. Van Jordan [Cover of Radio Days by Ha Jaeyoun]( Book Review [Radio Days by Ha Jaeyoun, tr. by Sue Hyon Bae]( Ha Jaeyoun’s Radio Days begins with a nonevent, an unremarkable exchange—followed by the realization that even everyday pleasantries sound overplayed. REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER SPAIDE [Cover of Secret Poetics by Hélio Oiticica]( Book Review [Aurora Americana by Myronn Hardy]( Myronn Hardy’s sixth collection, Aurora Americana, offers a clear-eyed vantage of America after the poet’s decade traveling and living in Morocco. The poems shift between worlds: a pool in Aleppo, a bench in Darwish’s park, streets of Mohammedia, and back to America, both its past—the fields and histories of Mississippi in “Sugar Snap Peas for Fannie Lou Hamer”—and its present. REVIEWED BY REBECCA MORGAN FRANK Featured Podcasts POETRY MAGAZINE [Kiki Petrosino and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Crestfallenness, Cookbooks, and More]( This week, Kiki Petrosino speaks about her new essay in the October issue of Poetry, “On Crestfallenness: A Pilgrim, Not a Tractor,” which appeared as part of the Hard Feelings series. She also talks about having her mother join her for her research, teaching across languages, and her love of cookbooks and the stories they tell. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen POETRY off the shelf [Ghost Sister]( Sebastian Merrill on the voice of his former self, the underworld, and laughing during yoga. [Listen to audio version }}]( Listen VS [Safiya Sinclair vs. The Sea]( In today’s episode, Brittany and Ajanae have the pleasure of interviewing Safiya Sinclair. Join them as they discuss the craft of switching to memoir, maintaining self-confidence while navigating academia, what their teenage selves would think of them, and the influence Jamaica has on Safiya’s writing. [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 #