"the orbit of gratitude, music over our heads"

November 29, 2022

Poems for Giving Tuesday

This Giving Tuesday, enjoy poems reflecting on gratitude, togetherness, and tenderness.

“Around Us” by Marvin Bell
“One Today” by Richard Blanco
“The Conversation” by Forrest Gander
“Below as Above” by Fred L. Joiner
“A Toast” by Ilya Kaminsky
“The Raincoat” by Ada Limón
“Give Me Your Hand” by Gabriela Mistral, translated Ursula K. Le Guin
“So Much Happiness” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“To All My Friends” by May Yang

“Being a poet inspires my work as a nurse in that it allows me to connect with my patients and their families in an additional way. Too often in healthcare, we can become distracted by the tasks necessary to deliver quality care. Being a poet enables me to not lose human connection, and to remember that I was placed in a position to serve and that is a privilege indeed.”

Read an interview with Ashanti Files, 2022 Poet Laureate Fellow, and poet laureate of Urbana, Illinois.

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Watch Marie Howe read her poem “Singularity,” as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films.

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“The poem, after all, is a space for interrogation and scrutiny and in Diné, or the Navajo language, there’s a word for all this I think, and that’s Siihasin, which could mean reflection, meditation, growth, and this idea of taking a brave step forward.”

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed, 2019), which was selected by Kathy Fagan for the 2018 National Poetry Series and received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Read and listen to Skeets discuss the Poem-a-Day curatorial approach and more on Poets.org.

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#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: an afternoon of poetry with Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows Brian Sonia-Wallace, Lynne Thompson, and Aileen Cassinetto. Saturday, December 3, at the Eagle Rock Branch Library (5027 Caspar Ave, Los Angeles) and on Zoom. Learn more here.

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Apply for the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 award recognizing a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year. The 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award will be judged by Anna Deeny Morales. Learn more and apply here by February 15, 2023 (11:59 p.m. ET).

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University of Illinois Press in Champaign, Illinois, is seeking a full-time journals marketing assistant.
University of Houston-Downtown in Texas is seeking an assistant / associate professor of rhetoric and composition and director of first-year writing.

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

November 20: “Song of the Oktahutche” by Alexander Posey
November 21: “Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits” by Crisosto Apache
November 22: “109 Bermuda” by Kenzie Allen
November 23: “The Tejano Considers Seeds” by Sebastián H. Páramo
November 24: “Nálí, Her Solo” by Laura Tohe
November 25: “The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis” by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
November 26: “I Have Stood Up for You” by Carlos Montezuma

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"the orbit of gratitude, music over our heads"

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