"we gather our lives / in this pooling—"

August 23, 2022

Poems on Travel

“i traveled the world. it was fine.” by Samiya Bashir
“How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?” by Cyrus Cassells
“After a Visit” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Overlooking the Cortile” by David St. John
“Where Do You Go from Tonopah?” by Gailmarie Pahmeier
“Looking for the Beautiful Things” by Joy Priest
“Río Chamita” by Arthur Sze

The aubade is a dawn song that greets the morning while lamenting the end of the night, often concerning the parting of lovers. As the last few weeks of summer slowly pass us by, reflect in the summer morning light.

“Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm” by Carl Phillips
“Aubade to Langston” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Academy of American Poets Chancellor Emerita Brenda Hillman and Chancellor Emeritus Robert Hass celebrate the centennial of T. S. Eliot’s iconic 434-line poem The Waste Land with a new short course from the Writers’ Annex. Online every Thursday in September. Financial aid available. Register here. (Sponsored).

“What are the boundaries? And how do we manipulate those boundaries between us and our speakers? Between our speakers and our readers? The shape of the poem.”

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 Cornelius Eady read “The Racist Bone” as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films.

Deadline Approaching: First Book Award

There is still time to submit your manuscript to the 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Submissions are open until Thursday, September 1, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. The First Book Award is the most generous first-book prize for poetry in the U.S. The winning manuscript, selected by Eduardo C. Corral, will be published by Graywolf Press and the winning poet will receive a paid residency at Civitella Ranieri.

Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is accepting applications for two postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, to be held from fall 2023 to the end of spring 2025.
The Poetry Review is seeking a full-time editor.
Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, is seeking an assistant professor of English.
The Telling Room is seeking a publications manager and lead teacher - publications.

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

August 14: “Summer Wind” by William Cullen Bryant
August 15: “Sun to Void” by Ladan Osman
August 16: “You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way” by Elizabeth Barnett
August 17: “Fracture” by Ellen Bass
August 18: “[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm]” by Luther Hughes
August 19: “house hunting as an act of faith” by t’ai freedom ford
August 20: “The Depths of the Grass” by Michael Field

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"we gather our lives / in this pooling—"

Older messages

"I Was Told the Sunlight Was a Cure" by Hanif Abdurraqib

"Shorn, treaded red" by Asiya Wadud

"The Depths of the Grass" by Michael Field

"River Roads" by Carl Sandburg

"house hunting as an act of faith" by t'ai freedom ford

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