Poem-a-Day - Poems on National Parks and more

August 9, 2022

National Parks

Find inspiration and grounding in the great outdoors with these poems inspired by National Parks:

“Peace Path” by Heid E. Erdrich
“Song as Abridged Thesis of George Perkin Marsh’s Man and Nature” by Major Jackson
“Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa” by Jennifer L. Knox
“Notes on the Below” by Ada Limón
“Catoctin Mountain Park” by Dora Malech
“The Everglades” by Campbell McGrath
“Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah” by Jacqueline Osherow
“Old South Meeting House” by January Gill O’Neil
“Faithful Forest” by Alberto Ríos

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#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: a reading and conversation with Laynie Browne and Carla Harryman, hosted by Poetry Coalition member Woodland Pattern Book Center. Held in person at Woodland Pattern (720 E. Locust Street Milwaukee, WI) and live-streamed via Crowdcast on Thursday, August 11, at 7 p.m. ET. Register for this free event here.

“I like to write the kinds of poems that I like to read. So, I’m often thinking about myself as the first reader.”

Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations (Graywolf Press, 2021), a winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Read and listen to Kelly discuss the Poem-a-Day curatorial approach and more on Poets.org.

Watch and listen to Kayo Chingonyi read Osip Mandelstam's poem “54,” translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films.

First Book Award

Submissions for the First Book Award are open and will be accepted online until September 1, 2022. Eduardo C. Corral will judge the 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the most generous first-book prize for poetry in the U.S. The winning manuscript will be published by Graywolf Press and the winning poet will receive a paid residency at Civitella Ranieri.

Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky is seeking an assistant professor to teach in the doctor of arts program in English pedagogy.
Street Poets in Los Angeles is seeking an executive director.
University of Chicago Press is seeking a full-time production coordinator.

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

July 31: “Cape Cod” by George Santayana
August 1: “Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two” by Rajiv Mohabir
August 2: “Rememory” by Diamond Forde
August 3 “The Understudy” by Hieu Minh Nguyen
August 4: “Daytona 500” by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
August 5: “I Go Back to Myself, April 2014” by Destiny O. Birdsong
August 6: “Rose Song” by Anne Reeve Aldrich

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Poem-a-Day - Poems on National Parks and more

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"Not" by Stephanie Cawley

"Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cicada" by Marissa Davis

"At Sainte-Marguerite" by Trumbull Stickney

"Rose Song" by Anne Reeve Aldrich

"I Go Back to Myself, April 2014" by Destiny O. Birdsong

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