April 26, 2022

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Don’t miss Poetry & the Creative Mind, with masters of ceremony Richard Blanco and Terrance Hayes, and featuring readings of favorite poems from Rosanne Cash, Willem Dafoe, Claire Danes, 2022 Leadership Award recipient Joy Harjo, Sharon Van Etten, and more luminaries from across the arts and culture.

This signature annual gala celebrating poetry’s important place in our lives raises critical funds to support the Academy of American Poets Education Program. Join us for our live broadcast this Thursday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. EDT. Free and open to the public. Learn more at Poets.org.

Poem In Your Pocket Day

We invite you to participate in the twentieth annual Poem in Your Pocket Day this Friday, April 29 to culminate National Poetry Month 2022. Individuals are encouraged to celebrate by selecting a poem, carrying it with them, and sharing it with others throughout the day in person and on social media using the hashtag #PocketPoem. Here are some poems to consider for the occasion:

“[I come weary,]” by Matsuo Basho
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
“Quest” by Carrie Williams Clifford
“Hope is the thing with feathers (254)” by Emily Dickinson
“Happenstance” by Rita Dove
“An Earth Song” by Langston Hughes
“Give Me This” by Ada Limón
“little prayer” by Danez Smith
“The Blue-Green Stream” by Wang Wei, translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell
“When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats

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Award-winning poet Vievee Francis reads new work in response to this once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster exhibition from the famed Spanish painter at The Phillips Collection exhibition. A moderated conversation with the poet and curator follows the reading.

National Poetry Month #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out this week’s National Poetry Month #PoetryNearYou Pick: The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice, a reading presented by Poetry Coalition member, Dodge Poetry, featuring Ina Cariño, Camisha Jones, and Stephen Kuusisto, moderated by Ona Gritz. Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m. ET. CART captions and ASL interpretation will be provided. Register for this free, virtual event here.

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members.

Submissions for the 2022 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize will be accepted until May 15 (11:59 p.m. ET). The judges are Matthew Shenoda, Danez Smith, and Sawako Nakayasu.

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Martín Espada follows noted poets Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Rita Dove, and more as the 2022 Folger Poetry Board Reader. His virtual reading is with the National Gallery of Art and the Folger Shakespeare Library. A moderated conversation will follow.

Kenyon Review in Gambier, Ohio, is seeking a managing editor.
Glenville State University in Glenville, West Virgina, is seeking a tenure track assistant professor or lecturer of English composition.

Listen to Naomi Shihab Nye discuss her curatorial approach and her own creative work. Read more about Shihab Nye, the author of Cast Away: Poems for Our Time (Greenwillow Books, 2020), plus poems here.

Revisit last week’s Poem-a-Day selections with us on Poets.org:

April 17: “From Brooklyn” by Evelyn Scott
April 18: “Home” by Ken Cockburn
April 19: “Guitarrero!” by Cyrus Cassells
April 20: “Imperfect” by Michael Simms
April 21: “Time,” by Zeina Hashem Beck
April 22: “The City” by Nathalie Handal
April 23: “Good Grief” by KB Brookins

Thank you to the following 2022 #NationalPoetryMonth sponsors & partners who help make possible the largest literary celebration in the world: Princeton University Press, Rain Taxi, Sarabande Books, Solid Objects, The Song Cave, Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, T. S. Eliot Foundation, The Telling Room, University of Arizona Poetry Center, University of Arizona Press, University of Arkansas Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Wisconsin Press, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., Wake Forest University Press, and We Are Bookish & NetGalley.com.

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A National Poetry Month Reading List for Young Readers

"Remember the Puns & Brashbrandy" by Matt Gonzalez

"Vista" by Deema K. Shehabi

"Throbbings" by Jamil B. Holway, translated by George Dimitri Selim

"Good Grief" by KB Brookins

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