"Bring back the murmur of the doves that made / Their little nests so neighborly to mine"

October 4, 2022

Hispanic Heritage Month

“Peace” by Florencio Varela
“The Hurricane” by José María Heredia, translated by William Cullen Bryant
“Let Me Go Warm” by Luis de Góngora, translated by H. W. Longfellow
“Escape” by Rufino Blanco Fombona, translated by Muna Lee
“Homage to Darío” by Arturo Giménez Pastor, translated by Agnes Blake Poor

“Mist” by Lola Rodríguez de Tió, translated by Roderick Gill
“I Know Not” by Diwaldo Salom

“They teach me something new. They teach me about fungi, they teach me about borders, they teach me about climate, or they offer a new way to see something that I already knew but that I hadn’t thought of before.”

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Children of the Land: A Memoir (Harper Collins, 2020) and Cenzontle (BOA Editions, 2018), which Brenda Shaughnessy selected as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin, Jr. Prize). Read and listen to Castillo discuss the Poem-a-Day curatorial approach and more on Poets.org.

We are pleased to present our Fall–Winter Season, which will run from October 2022 through February 2023 and include in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Programs include a reading and panel discussions with the Academy of American Poets Chancellors at the biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival; Gather in Poems, a reading by the Chancellors celebrating poetry and community; and the Annual Blaney Lecture on contemporary poetry and poetics.

We are thrilled to announce Andrews McMeel Publishing will partner with the Academy of American Poets to release 100 Poems That Matter on December 6, 2022. The first book from the Academy since 2015, 100 Poems includes the work of classic and contemporary poets such as Emily Bronte, E. E. Cummings, Kahlil Gibran, Audre Lorde, and Emily Dickinson, as well as the current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, and other past laureates.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Across America, hosted by Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow Brian Sonia-Wallace. Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows Semaj Brown, Magdalena Gomez, Chasity Gunn, Luisa Igloria, Georgina Marie, and Lloyd Schwartz will discuss their Fellowships, read their writing, and reflect on the state of poetry across the United States. Wednesday, October 5 at 6:00 p.m. PDT/ 9:00 p.m. EDT. Register for this free, virtual event here.

“For centuries, American arts and humanities have been a beacon of light and understanding, recording our history and advancing new ways of thinking.”

President Joe Biden has declared October National Arts & Humanities Month, a time to honor, celebrate, and uplift artists, writers, and scholars, whose voices and work inspire our nation.

Academy of American Poets’ Capacity-Building Grant Program

Eligible organizations are still able to apply for two-year grants of $5,000–$25,000 each year, or $10,000–$50,000 total, to support capacity-building initiatives. The grant program is a multi-year funding opportunity for literary organizations that present or serve poets, or that incorporate poetry as part of their programming. Applications will be accepted through October 28 at 5 p.m. ET on the Academy of American Poets Submittable page. Learn more about eligibility requirements. The Academy of American Poets and CLMP hosted a joint information session for interested applicants on September 16. A recording of the session is available here.

Guggenheim Museum 2023 Poet-in-Residence

Submissions are still open for the Guggenheim Museum’s 2023 Poet-in-Residence. Working with the Guggenheim’s public programs department, the poet-in-residence will design activations and experiences with poetry as an artistic form for the museum’s adult, teen, and youth audiences. Applications are being accepted through October 16. View the full eligibility guidelines on the Poet-in-Residence Initiative page and submit all materials through Submittable.

Enter the 2023 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment. First place receives $1,000; second place, $750; and third place, $500. Winning poems will be featured in our popular Poem-a-Day series. The 2023 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize will be judged by climate scientist and author Dr. Peter Kalmus and poet Matthew Olzmann. Learn more and apply here by November 15, 2022 (11:59 p.m. ET).

Apply for the 2023 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship

The Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship will be given in 2023 to enable an American translator to travel, study, or otherwise advance a significant work-in-progress. The Academy invites applications from American translators currently engaged in the translation of twentieth-century Italian poetry. The judges for the 2023 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship are Graziella Sidoli, Jennifer Scappettone and John Taylor. Submissions are accepted from September 30, 2022, to March 1, 2023. The selected fellow will receive $25,000 and a five-week residency at the American Academy in Rome.

Duke University Press in Durham, North Carolina, is seeking a full-time books project editor.
Kundiman in New York, New York, is seeking a full-time development director. Priority deadline is October 10.
University of Missouri is seeking a full-time, tenure track assistant professor in creative writing (creative nonfiction).
Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is accepting applications for the Newhouse visiting professor of creative writing.

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

September 25: “At Memphis Station” by Johannes V. Jensen
September 26: “How To Forgive” by Susan Nguyen
September 27: “Abraham Lincoln Turns to Listen to the Lower Ninth” by Monifa Love
September 28: “Between Fulmination and Adoration” by Lois P. Jones
September 29: “What Now” by Jacob Griffin Hall
September 30: “The Atom No. 18” by Sarah Mangold
October 1: “Anna” by Samira Negrouche, translated by Marilyn Hacker

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"Bring back the murmur of the doves that made / Their little nests so neighborly to mine"

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"the poem is a dream telling you its time" by Marwa Helal

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"Anna and the Chair" by Samira Negrouche, translated by Marilyn Hacker

"The Atom No. 18" by Sarah Mangold

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