Poem-a-Day - "The pines make a music like no other"

January 3, 2023
Celebrating a New Month
 
Celebrate the beginning of this new year and month with a few poets born in January: 
 
Beat, Old Heart” by Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878)
On Love” by Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883)
Gospel” by Philip Levine (January 10, 1928)
What’s Broken” by Dorianne Laux (January 10, 1952)
Once in the 40’s” by William Stafford (January 17, 1914)
To the Country” by Rubén Darío (January 18, 1867)
Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809)
“I’ve watched these poets climb down inside themselves to bring up a language only they knew how to speak. I went about looking for poems that [was] grounded in the particularity, yet they go deep down inside the poet to express what it means to be human. They have an emotion that can be recognized in the language, no matter our place in the world.”

Tyree Daye is the author of Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Read and listen to Daye discuss the Poem-a-Day curatorial approach and more on Poets.org

To: All Poets From: Northeastern North Carolina
I Wanted to Place an Ocean
Field Notes on Beginning
Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings

 
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 #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Greenlight Bookstore presents Will Alexander in conversation with Academy of American Poets Chancellor Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera. Thursday, January 5, at 7:30 p.m. ET. Register for this free, virtual event here

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Apply for the 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships

The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships are $50,000 awards given to honor poets of literary merit appointed to serve in civic positions and to enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that engage their fellow residents, including youth, with poetry, helping to address issues important to their communities, as well as create new work. We are accepting applications for the 2023 fellowships until February 17, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Find out more here.  

We are now accepting submissions from publishers and presses for the 2023 James Laughlin Award, given to a second book of poetry forthcoming in 2024, and the 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given to the most outstanding book of poetry published in 2023. The submission period is from January 1, 2023 to May 15, 2023.

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

December 25: from “Phantasus” by Arno Holz
December 26: “To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother’s Garden” by Brenda Hillman
December 27: “XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets” by Jacqueline Osherow
December 28: “Cows in the Evening” by Nikki Wallschlaeger
December 29: “Chorus” by Peter Streckfus
December 30:  “The Need Is So Great” by Jim Moore
December 31: “The Death of the Old Year” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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