"And yet, and yet / This very wind, the winter birds"

Meet the twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2023. The guest editors, who live in ten different states across the country, are all award-winning poets who represent wide-ranging editorial perspectives. We’re grateful to them and hope you’ll sign-up for Poem-a-Day and read along! 

100 Poems That Matter

Today is the publication day for 100 Poems That Matter from the Academy of American Poets and Andrews McMeel! Get your copy of this new anthology here and share which poems matter to you on social media using the hashtag #PoemsThatMatter. 

Literary Arts Emergency Fund

The three organizations behind the Literary Arts Emergency Fund—the Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, and the National Book Foundation—have released a first-of-its-kind report on the state of the literary arts field in the U.S. The report demonstrates the unique contributions of the hundreds of nonprofit organizations and publishers that sustain our literary culture and the challenges they face, particularly those that serve historically under-represented groups. Read the report here. 

 #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Spirit of Sound, a conversation between Jonah Mixon-Webster, M. NourbeSe Philip, Justin Phillip Reed, and Simone White exploring the intersection of poetry, sound, and music, curated by the Guggenheim’s Poet-in-Residence Taylor Johnson. Thursday, December 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1071 Fifth Avenue, New York). Register here. (Sponsored)