Bodies Built for Game

"Natalie Diaz, along with associate editor Hannah Ensor, has provided another valuable collection of critical commentary on salient issues pertaining to identity and power structures in Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing. As a celebrated poet and essayist as well as former professional female athlete in the American sports industry, Diaz (Mojave), is an excellent authority on these themes."Tara Keegan, American Indian Quarterly

Natalie Diaz is an associate professor of English and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. She is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec and of the forthcoming book Post Colonial Love Poem. In 2018 she received a MacArthur Fellowship. Hannah Ensor is the assistant director of the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Love Dream with Television.

Bodies Built for Game, introduction essay -Natalie Diaz In Defense of Allen Iverson, poem -Hanif Abdurraqib Bolting into Throat, poem -Patricia Smith last summer of innocence, poem -Danez Smith American Pharoah, poem -Ada Limn Takes Enemy, essay -Shann Ray Professional Wrestling Holds, poem -Ashaki Jackson He takes me, poem -Paul Tran The Hit Man, poem -Stacey Waite Psych Ward Visitation Hour, poem -b. william bearhart The Wars, novel excerpt -Louise Erdrich After Simone Manuel's Olympic Victory in the Women's 100m Freestyle, poem -Lauren Espinoza In the outfield, daydreaming, poem -francine j. harris The Meaning of Serena Williams: On tennis and black excellence, essay -Claudia Rankine Serena Williams Walks, poem -Kwame Dawes Boxing Out, poem -Adrian Matejka Summertime, poem -Joel Salcido Aaron Hernandez is my brother, poem -Randall J Tyrone The Church of Michael Jordan, poem -Jeffrey McDaniel Built For It, poem -Lisa Olstein Federer as Irreligious Experience, essay -Porochista Khakpour prayer when knees give, poem -Nate Marshall Days of '95 II, poem -Shane Lake Baseball, poem -Izzy Wasserstein To Prevent Hypothermia, poem -Fatimah Asghar Give and Go, essay -Toni Jensen Perfect Form, poem -Kamilah Aisha Moon Black Boxers: A Brief History, poem -Benjamin Krusling The Cock Fight Place, poem -Alberto Ros A Note on Process, essay -Meghan O'Rourke How Are You Feeling, poem -Ana Boievi The Wrestler, poem -Kazim Ali War Training: An Athletics, poem -Nomi Stone A Boy & His Mother Play Dead at Dawn, poem -Michael Wasson As If We Were Called, essay -Reginald Dwayne Betts Run, poem -Gary Jackson From Heaven, My Father Sends His Regrets, poem -Cornelius Eady Russian Sport, poem -Vera Pavlova, translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Valzhyna Mort Feel for the Water, essay -Christian Campbell I reckon, a latitude, poem -Asiya Wadud A Perfect Game, poem -Yesenia Montilla Dennis, poem -Kaveh Akbar At Eighty-Two My Father Is Learning to Walk Again, poem -Esther Lin Clank, novel excerpt -Toms Q. Morin Liquid, poem -Aaron Smith Losing the 440-Yard Dash, poem -Afaa M. Weaver Sports Analogy, poem -David Tomas Martinez Why to Run Racks, essay -Lisa Fay Coutley El Barril, poem -James Thomas Stevens Who Got This Far, poem -Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela Project Artifacts: Through the Banks of the Red Cedar, poem -Maya Washington My Mother Says I'm A Warrior, essay -Claudia D. Hernandez Alone in the Schoolyard at Dusk, poem -Dorianne Laux why i can't play basketball anymore, poem -Richard Vargas The Condition of Being a Sports Fan, essay -Sue Hyon Bae Take Me Out, poem -Iliana Rocha Parking Lot Poem With Fernando Valenzuela, poem -Matthew Lippman Strike Indicator, poem -Pamela Hart Minor League Legend, poem -Matthew Olzmann Longing to the Invisible: An Ars Poetica, essay -Traci Brimhall High School Yoga, poem -Kat Page Southpaw Skin the Gloves, poem -Alicia Mountain Playbook, poem -Hannah Oberman-Breindel Games, poem -L. Lamar Wilson Mudita World Peace, essay -Hannah Ensor At the gym, moments after I failed a squat attempt that would have been easy pre-sitting-induced pinched nerve, poem -Candace Williams Inside the City Williams, poem -Norman Dubie Diana Nyad as J.M.W Turner, poem -BK Fischer game recognizes game, poem -t'ai freedom ford Off Sides, essay -Susan Briante The Chain, poem -Elyse Fenton Young Woman Wrestler, poem -Tria Blu Wakpa Self-portrait in Sleep, poem -Dean Rader Infield Contrapuntal, poem -Meg Day Shots Missed, poem -Celeste Adame Sports History, poem -Brett Fletcher Lauer The Yo-Yo Heir's Lament, poem -Eugene Gloria Stadium Mocs, poem -Chip Livingston Bad Love Affair, poem -Joseph Millar Ode To The Dream Shake, poem -Ben Purkert Catch, poem -Trevino Brings Plenty The Sum of Our Doing, essay -Holly M. Wendt Who Holds The Stag's Head Gets to Speak, poem -Gabrielle Calvacoressi Polaroid: Links, poem -Stacey Lynn Brown Of Competition or ""And the sheeted dead squeak and gibbe