December 8, 2022

Dear Reader,

Each year the Academy of American Poets asks twelve accomplished poets to serve for a month as guest editor of Poem-a-Day, one of the largest platforms featuring poets’ new work.

The Academy of American Poets is thrilled to announce the group of poets who will serve as Poem-a-Day Guest Editors in 2023. These poets live in ten different states across the country, are all award-winning, and represent wide-ranging editorial and aesthetic perspectives.

We know you’ll enjoy the coming year of daily poems curated by these brilliant poets. Thank you so much for reading together with us each and every morning.

With appreciation,

Jeffery Gleaves
Digital Engagement & Content Senior Director
Academy of American Poets

2023 Poem-a-Day Guest Editors

January:
Tyree Daye
The author of the poetry collections Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), Daye is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Award.

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April:
Ada Limón
Appointed the United States poet laureate in 2022, Limón’s 2018 collection, The Carrying (Milkweed Editions), won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

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July:
John Lee Clark
A DeafBlind poet, essayist, translator, literary historian and author of the poetry collection How to Communicate (W. W. Norton, 2022), Clark received a National Magazine Award for Best Essay and lives in Hopkins, Minnesota.

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October:
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Villarreal is the author of the poetry collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017), she received a 2019 Whiting Award and a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.

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February:
Patricia Smith
A four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Smith’s 2012 collection, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Copper Canyon), won the Academy’s Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

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May:
Hieu Minh Nguyen
A queer, Vietnamese American poet from Minnesota and the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, the Poetry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Hieu is a lecturer at Stanford University and lives in Oakland.

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August:
Divya Victor
The author of Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021), the winner of the 2022 PEN America Open Book Award and the winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Victor teaches at Michigan State University.

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November:
Steve Bellin-Oka
The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center, Bellin-Oka is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow in poetry and translation and a research fellow at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities.

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March:
Diane Seuss
Seuss’s most recent collection, frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021), won the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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June:
Brian Teare
Teare is the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award as well as fellowships from Stanford University, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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September:
Eunsong Kim
Kim is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Arts Writers Program, and Yale University’s Poynter Fellowship. She teachers in the department of English at Arizona State University.

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December:
Claudia Rankine
Winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Rankine has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets.

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