Filipino American History Month, Dodge Poetry Festival, and more

October 18, 2022

Filipino American History Month

Poet, educator, journalist, and politician Luis G. Dato, one of the first Filipino authors to write and publish in English, was born in Baao, Camarines Sur, Philippines, on July 4, 1906.

Read poems from Manila: A Collection of Verse (Imp. Paredes, Inc., 1926), published when Dato was twenty.

“Solitude”
“Sonnet [Our days in swift succession bid us on]”
“Altered”
“Lost Glimpses”
“Mirage”

“My elders are all ash, but they visit me in dreams. Relinquenda in Latin is ‘that which we must relinquish.’ Relinquenda was my mother’s motto. I found it jotted down on the inside cover of one of her journals. She wanted to buy a property somewhere on a mountain and call the house ‘Relinquenda.’ And I love that idea of living ‘in relinquenda,’ and that is what I am trying to do now. Loss is unending.”

Read our first enjambments interview with Alexandra Lytton Regalado, author of Relinquenda: Poems, released by Beacon Press this month.

Don’t miss The Academy of American Poets Chancellors at the biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. The Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America. View the full schedule of festival programs at Dodgepoetry.org. New Jersey’s Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark, NJ 07102.Purchase tickets here.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Welcome to Lena’s House. Lorraine Hansberry’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN, directed by Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara, proves to be as provocative and powerful today as it was in 1959. Running now until November 13 at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY). Purchase tickets here. (Sponsored). Purchase tickets here. (Sponsored).

“I wrote the memoir because there were things that I just needed to say, but I couldn’t say in poems, still. So, I knew that I needed to say the things that I needed to say and talk about my life in a way that I have never done before, both in conversation or in my writing.”

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.

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.

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 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards

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 modern Italian poetry. The selected fellow will receive $25,000 and a five-week residency at the American Academy in Rome.

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.

Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, is accepting applications for the McGee Distinguished Visiting Professor of Writing.
California State University Stanislaus in Turlock, California, is seeking an assistant professor of English.
Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, is seeking a full-time marketing coordinator. Email resume to jobs@greenlightbookstore.com.

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

October 9: “My Life Is a Memory” by Rafael Arévalo Martínez
October 10: “A Blind Spot, Awash” by Tobi Kassim
October 11: “from ‘Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts’” by Carolina Ebeid
October 12: “Barnes & Noble, 1999” by Jesús I. Valles
October 13: “what we did while waiting for the rain” by Afua Ansong
October 14: “For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella” by Ariana Brown
October 15: “The Lost Bird” by Carolina Coronado, translated by William Cullen Bryant

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Filipino American History Month, Dodge Poetry Festival, and more

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