{
  "id": 14656354,
  "title": "My Body Is a Poem: Emily Hyland In Praise of a Poetics of Physicality",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/my-body-is-a-poem-emily-hyland-in-praise-of-a-poetics-of-physicality",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-15T09:08:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/my-body-is-a-poem-emily-hyland-in-praise-of-a-poetics-of-physicality/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Each day, Emily Hyland writes a poem about her own body. By befriending movement, she hopes to learn what knowledge lives within. A poem captures a moment of presence, where the body flows with blood, muscles contract and release, and joints flex and extend. Joel Kramer states that \"to be alive with this tremendous energy is to be alive now – it's all happening now, a moment to moment thing.\"\n\nEmily teaches a class called \"My Body is a Poem\" at Yogasource in Santa Fe. She teaches movement through the lens of poems and poems through the lens of movement. Poetic expression is deeply connected to the practice of moving. Movement-based meditation-in-action allows individuals to learn to feel their bodies through interoception – discerning the signals coming from within.\n\nEmily writes a poem each day of her body. She wonders about thoughts connecting to movements and what types of movement patterns help wake up awareness. She considers what actions might stimulate blood flow and reinforce postural length, creating conditions for creative awareness to flow more easily. Emily has had experiences where movement created the conditions for poetic awareness. During a self-guided movement practice, her big toe kept wanting to lead a kick, leading her to feel as if she was in utero, poking for her mother's attention.\n\nThese experiences have led Emily to write poems about her history of disordered eating. Movement, such as lying on the floor poking at what's there in the air, has helped her process her feelings of hunger and write about them on the page. Emily leads a poetry & movement retreat with her teacher, Mark Doty, once a year. Folks move their bodies in the yoga studio and on the trails while they move their minds on the page in craft talks with Mark.",
  "summary": "Each day, I write the poem of my body. The more I’m able to befriend movement as a means to learn what knowledge lives within, the more interesting my experience becomes. What poem might my body write today? Poems are",
  "key_points": [
    "Emily Hyland writes a poem daily about her body",
    "Movement-based meditation aids in body awareness",
    "Emily's poetry explores disordered eating experiences"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}