"And more than the songs I sing, I await your written word"

February 14, 2023
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this selection of poems from Poets.org: 

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love” by Anne Carson
How the Stars Understand Us” by Christopher Gilbert
Song Out Here” by Juan Felipe Herrera
A Blessing for Wedding” by Jane Hirshfield
[To find a kiss of yours]” by Federico García Lorca
Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara
Edmonia Lewis and I Weather the Storm” by Xandria Phillips
Haiku [for you]” by Sonia Sanchez
A Valentine” by Priscilla Jane Thompson
An Indian Love Song” by Bertrand N. O. Walker
Join us as we continue to celebrate Black History Month by reading more work published in the anthology Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties (Harper & Brothers, 1927), edited by Countee Cullen

Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas” by Gwendolyn Bennett
Rye Bread” by William Stanley Braithwaite 
The Deserter” by Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 
The Way-Side Well” by Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.
Interim” by Clarissa Scott Delaney 
Paradox” by Angelina Weld Grimké 
When the Green Lies over the Earth” by Angelina Weld Grimké 
Prayer” by Langston Hughes 
Absence” by Claude McKay 
In the summer of 1966, Elizabeth Kray, then executive director of the Academy of American Poets, invited Langston Hughes, the leading poetic figure of the Harlem Renaissance, to read in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum with fellow New York poet Léonie Adams. Read this letter and more archival work from classic Black poets, and search poems about the Black experience by both classic and contemporary poets.
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“I think the idea of really mastering the sonnet is so you know how many ways to break it apart to make it yours, and that it doesn’t have to be traditional love; it doesn’t have to have the change after the eighth line.”

Read and listen to an interview with Patricia Smith, author of Unshuttered (Northwestern University Press, 2023) and Incendiary Art (Northwestern University Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry. Read and listen to Smith discuss the Poem-a-Day curatorial approach and more on Poets.org
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Watch Academy Chancellor Kimiko Hahn as she shares her “Brief But Spectacular” take on the power of poetry for PBS. 
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Request your free copy of the official National Poetry Month poster in time for the April 2023 celebration!

The 2023 poster was designed by Marc Brown, creator of the popular Arthur series. The artwork incorporates an excerpted line from the poem “The Carrying” by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón

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Watch Keetje Kuipers read the poem “Still Life with Nursing Bra.” “Still Life with Nursing Bra” is the second film in Above Strands of Earth: Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation at Tippet Rise, a film series produced in collaboration with Tippet Rise Art Center and the Academy of American Poets. Directed by Matthew Thompson and shot at Tippet Rise Art Center. Learn more at https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org.

 #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Alaska Quarterly Review presents Pièces de Résistance: Facts into Poems, a craft conversation with Academy Chancellor Emeriti Jane Hirshfield and current Academy Chancellor Dorianne Laux. Available to stream on YouTube now.
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Deadline Approaching: 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.  

Deadline Approaching: 2023 Ambroggio Prize

The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript is published by University of Arizona Press. The 2023 Ambroggio Prize will be judged by Achy Obejas. Learn more and apply here by February 15, 2023 (11:59 p.m. ET). 

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Deadline Approaching: 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:

February 5: “When Dawn Comes to the City” by Claude McKay
February 6: “Continental Breakfast”  by Nkosi Nkululeko
February 7: “Canopy” by Arlene Keizer
February 8: “Love Poem in the Black Field” by Ariana Benson 
February 9: “Aubade: Nocturne” by Willie Lee Kinard III
February 10: “When I See the Stars in the Night Sky” by Joy Priest
February 11: “The Venus of Milo” by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
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