"Moon that is linking our daughters’ / Choices, and still more beginnings"

March 7, 2023

Celebrate Women’s History Month with a selection of poems from Poets.org:

“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
“Pain Scale” by Catherine Barnett
“The Sound of Their Names” by Ellen Bass
“19th Amendment Ragtime Parade” by Marilyn Chin
“homage to my hips” by Lucille Clifton
“Moon for Our Daughters” by Annie Finch
“Given to Rust” by Vievee Francis
“Poem about My Rights” by June Jordan
“Remember the Boys” by Rachel McKibbens
“The Women’s Litany” by Margaret Widdemer

“Time becomes seasons. Return becomes irreversible, so it backtracks and transforms into a landscape, or a greenscape. I am too familiar with how both gradual and sudden loss changes our whole worlds, our whole beings.”

Read Janice Lobo Sapigao’s reflection on grief and the poem “Greensickness” by Laurel Chen, as part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming and seventh annual theme, “and so much lost you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief.”

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“I visit high schools and universities all the time, so I get to spend a lot of time with young adults. I remember asking them about love and being met with silence. It made me want to write more about love. It felt like a gap that I might be able to meaningfully contribute to. I was a little saddened then, when textures of grief and fear punctuated my poems. Maybe I could revise away from those troubling emotions. Yet the poems and the collection felt realest to me when it acknowledged how much darkness there is in our attempts to love and do right by each other.”

Read the latest installment in our enjambments series with José Olivarez on his collection, Promises of Gold (Henry Holt and Company, 2023).

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“She became, in other words, a political actor as well as an artist and a celebrity. She was an inspired participant in the new movement against slavery and the most famous African in North America and Europe during the era of the American Revolution.”

David Waldstreicher, excerpted from The Beginnings, The Table, The Tale, the first chapter of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence, published today by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Read more about Wheatley, including poems:

“To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”
“On Virtue”
“On Imagination”
“An Hymn to the Evening”

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Poetry & the Creative Mind, our signature National Poetry Month celebration and benefit reading, will return to the virtual stage as a free, livestreamed event on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

With readings of favorite poems by luminaries from across the arts and culture, the broadcast celebrates the important role poetry plays in the lives of readers. Join Ethan Hawke, Jonathan Majors, Shantell Martin, Liam Neeson, Molly Shannon, Nobel Peace Prize–winner Malala Yousafzai, and more, for this singular virtual event.

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Registration is free for all attendees. Your gift during registration supports the Academy of American Poets’ programs and publications, including free resources for educators during National Poetry Month and throughout the year.

Watch Brian Blanchfield read Carl Phillip’s “Corral.” This is the fourth 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.

The Academy of American Poets at #AWP23

Heading to Seattle for AWP? Join us this week for readings and panels with Academy of American Poets Chancellors and prize winners, and drop by our booth #811 to pick up a free copy of American Poets magazine, a #ReadMorePoems tote, and the 2023 #NationalPoetryMonth poster. We look forward to seeing you in person again!

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An #AWP23 Reading Presented by the Academy of American Poets

On Saturday, March 11, at 1:45 p.m. PST, don’t miss our featured AWP reading with the author of Saltwater Demands a Psalm (Graywolf Press, forthcoming in April 2023), winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, Kweku Abimbola; James Laughlin Award winner and author of Tanya (Knopf, 2023), Brenda Shaughnessy; and 2017 Walt Whitman Award winner and author of Rupture Tense (Graywolf Press, 2022), Jenny Xie. A signing of the poets’ new collections will immediately follow at 3 p.m. PST. Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5.

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On Thursday, March 23, at 4 p.m. PST / 7 p.m. EST, Academy Chancellor Patricia Smith will deliver the 2023 Blaney Lecture, “The Scrawny Little Black Girl with the Hasty Pigtails Sounds Out ‘Anemone.’” This virtual event is free to attend with registration. ASL interpretation will be provided. A Q&A session will follow the lecture.

The Blaney Lecture was created in memory of former Academy of American Poets Board member Dr. Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney, past president of Cedar Crest College and champion of women and education, by a gift from her estate.

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#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: The KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series featuring Alaska Quarterly Review poets Jessica Greenbaum, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Michael Waters, Laura Kolbe, Carey Salerno, and Academy of American Poets Chancellor Emeritus Alicia Ostriker. Monday, March 13, at 7 p.m. EST at KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street, New York, NY). Learn more here. (Sponsored)

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“I was interested in finding poems that spoke to each other across the line and not... So, in other words, I wasn’t thinking of a frame or theme that would, you know, unite these poems, but I was interested in how they might talk to each other, especially in the order that I’ve put them in. ”

Read and listen to our Poem-a-Day interview with Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Read and listen to Seuss discuss the Poem-a-Day curatorial approach and more on Poets.org.

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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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McNally Jackson Books in Brooklyn, New York, is seeking a full-time senior bookseller / kids section manager. Send resume, cover letter, and two references to Sam MacLaughlin (Sam@mcnallyjackson.com) and jobs@mcnallyjackson.com.
The University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama, is seeking a full-time instructor of English / coordinator of writing center.

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

February 26: “Slow through the Dark” Paul Laurence Dunbar
February 27: “Indeterminacy” by Charif Shanahan
February 28: “No Room to Form” by John S. Blake
March 1: “Hey,” by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 2: “Look” by Maxine Scates
March 3: “’Ancestry” by Tommy Archuleta
March 4: “Enchantment” by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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"Moon that is linking our daughters’ / Choices, and still more beginnings"

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"The Honest Tongue" by Laura Da'

"'South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills'" by Aaron Coleman

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"Ancestry" by Tommy Archuleta

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