Thinking Feelingly explores how poetry might be experienced with the whole self, through emotion, physiology, and intuition. The book selects poems for each week of the calendar year, spends a few pages lingering with them, and offers an embodied practice for engaging them at the level of bone and skin. Hawkins draws from a wide range of somatic techniques, from breathwork to movement to visualizations to way quirkier experiments. Her whimsical writerly style is peppered with jokes and personal anecdotes, in an intentional departure from normative academic modes of analysis. These pages want to share shivers with you, relishing poems using the same sense-based capacities with which we actually encounter them. Aligned with emergent liberatory work that seeks to mobilize stuck spots in our current thinking, this project hopes to open up new questions rather than answering old ones. Most centrally: what practices drop poetry into gut feeling? Anthologized here, you'll find an eclectic gathering of poets: William Carlos Williams Jane Hirshfield Margaret Hasse Adrie Kusserow Robert Frost Octavio Paz Muriel Rukeyser Denise Levertov Ada Limón Ross Gay Kazim Ali Elizabeth Bishop Conrad Aiken Patrick Rosal Craig Santos Perez Lucille Clifton Jason Schneiderman Paisley Rekdal A.R. Ammons Gregory Pardlo Maggie Smith Dan Albergotti Devin Kelly Donika Kelly Ashley M. Jones Gustavo Hernandez Bayo Akomolafe June Jordan Gbenga Adesina Derek Walcott George Herbert Tony Hoagland Aria Aber Natasha Rao Marilyn Kallet Lisel Mueller Martin Walls John Blair Ted Kooser Rebecca Wee Ellen Bass Richard Wilbur Linda Hogan Margaret Atwood Adrienne Rich Susan Stewart Elizabeth Bishop Kim Addonizio Brad Aaron Modlin Noah Baldino Ruth Forman Thomas Lux Ama Codjoe Daniel Nester Joy Harjo W.S. Merwin Marge Piercy John of Milano Galway Kinnell Jennifer Rahim Wendell Berry David Whyte Evie Shockley Linda Pastan Marie Ponsot Czeslow Milosz John Paul Martinez Kasey Jueds Rainer Maria Rilke Yehuda Amichai Dion Lissner O’Reilly Marion Wrenn Robin Coste Lewis Matthew Zapruder Roger Robinson Robert Pinsky Carl Dennis Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick James Wright Theodore Roethke Louise Erdrich Ellen Skilton W. S. Di Piero Naomi Shihab Nye Tracy K. Smith Jane Kenyon Wallace Stevens Audre Lorde Yehuda Amichai Danusha Laméris Margaret Atwood Tamiko Beyer Billy Collins Dorianne Laux Eleanor Stanford For anyone who loves poetry or who wonders why someone they love loves poetry, Thinking Feelingly hopes to hook you.