Poem-a-Day - Poems for the Outdoors and more

May 17, 2022

Poems for the Outdoors

As summer draws nearer and days grow longer, spend time reflecting outdoors with these poems:

“Pastoral” by Djuna Barnes
“Joy” by Clarissa Scott Delany
“For Keeps” by Joy Harjo
“The Bride Tree Can’t Be Read” by Brenda Hillman
“In the Clearing” by Patricia Hooper
“An Earth Song” by Langston Hughes
“One Flower” by Jack Kerouac
“Homing Swallows” by Claude McKay
“Little Lion Face” by May Swenson
“[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]” by William Wordsworth

Celebrating Asian American/Pacific Islander Poets This Month

Thanks to Brandy Nālani McDougall’s curation, Poem-a-Day this month is honoring Pacific Islander poets for Asian American/Pacific Islander Month. Read more about McDougall’s curation, featured in Pacific Daily News, and listen to McDougall discuss her curatorial approach, read her poems, and more on Poets.org.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: What Is Found There

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: What Is Found There: Surprise in the Lyric Poem, a craft lab with Jay Deshpande, hosted by Brooklyn Poets. Consider what it actually means to surprise a reader and talk about ways to get around cliché—the enemy of surprise. Sunday, May 22 at 5 p.m. ET. Financial aid available! Register here. (Sponsored).

Congratulations to Poets Laureate Fellows Claudia Castro Luna and Magdalena Gómez on their latest publications: Mi’ja (Heliotrope Books, 2022) and Cipota Under the Moon (Northwestern University Press, 2022). Read more about Magdalena Gómez and Claudia Castro Luna, plus poems.

National Youth Poet Laureate Finalists

Congratulations to this year’s National Youth Poet Laureate finalists: Jessica Kim (Los Angeles); Alyssa Gaines (Indianapolis); Elizabeth Shvarts (New York City); and Isabella Ramirez (South Florida). Hosted by Kennedy Center Next 50 Leader, Mahogany L. Browne, the event will be held in person and available via livestream on the Kennedy Center’s Facebook page and the event page via YouTube. Friday, May 20 at 6 p.m. EST. The event will also feature special guests from the Washington, D.C. Youth Poet Laureate Program. The 2022-23 National Youth Poet Laureate will be announced. Register here.

Apply Now: Poetry Coalition Fellowships

With thanks to the Mellon Foundation, the Poetry Coalition is pleased to announce the 2022–23 Poetry Coalition Fellowships, which are paid fellowship positions hosted by founding member organizations Letras Latinas, Mass Poetry, Urban Word, Woodland Pattern, and Youth Speaks. Applications are being accepted until July 3, 2022. The positions will begin on September 5, 2022 and end on June 30, 2023. Interested individuals that are 21 or older are encouraged to apply, including those who are enrolled in or have recently graduated from an MFA program in creative writing.

Cave Canem in Brooklyn is seeking a full-time operations manager.
Poets House in New York City is seeking a full-time executive director.
Lambda Literary is seeking a full-time executive director.

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

May 8: “[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves,]” by Charles Reznikoff
May 9: “The Flame Tree” by Evelyn Flores
May 10: “Whānau” by Ngaio Simmons
May 11: “Contact Zone” by Imaikalani Kalahele
May 12: “in our chant of the creation of the world” by leilani portillo
May 13: “Envy” by Emelihter Kihleng
May 14: “Nocturne” by Sadakichi Hartmann

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Poem-a-Day - Poems for the Outdoors and more

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"pronunciation" by Leora Kava

"Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu" by Mahealani Perez-Wendt

"[The flowers and my love,]" by Ono no Komachi, translated by Yone Noguchi

"Nocturne" by Sadakichi Hartmann

"Envy" by Emelihter Kihleng

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