"our whole town were a picture postcard and our feelings were on vacation"

July 12, 2023

As we near the middle of summer, reflect on travel, open landscapes, and escape, both real and imagined, with these poems from Poets.org: 
 
If You Get There Before I Do” by Dick Allen
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape” by John Ashbery
Looking for The Gulf Motel” by Richard Blanco
Return to Florence” by Cyrus Cassells
Vacation” by Rita Dove
Amsterdam” by Safia Elhillo
Sonnetesque” by Lynn Emanuel
Souvenir” by Beth Ann Fennelly
Love By The Sea #2” by Sadakichi Hartmann
Air In The Epic” by Brenda Hillman
Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive” by Ashley M. Jones
Per aspera ad astra” by Huascar Medina
Reflections” by Ameen Rihani
Revisit Academy Chancellor Carolyn Forché’s Blaney Lecture “Not Persuasion, But Transport: The Poetry of Witness” from October 25, 2013, at Poets Forum in New York City, in which she talks about her travels and the poetry of transport, activism, and witness. Read a full transcript of the lecture
oliver de la paz

“The sonnet carries an idea of perfection for me. There are aspects of it that remind me of the sharp facets of a diamond, cut precisely at the right angle to gleam in a particular way. I also love that the sonnet can be both an argument and an oath of one’s enduring love.”

Read our latest enjambments interview with Oliver de la Paz on his collection, The Diaspora Sonnets, published this month through Liveright Publishing Corporation. De la Paz is the recipient of multiple Pushcart Prizes and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Artist Trust, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Read more about him, including a selection of poems from the collection: 

Diaspora Sonnet at the Feeders Before the Freeze
Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father’s Uncertainty and Nothing Else
Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions
 
more at poets.org
John Lee Clark
“We raked our fingers
through the sea bottom.

We stuffed coral with pearls
and molded it.”

From John Lee Clark’s poem, “The Mansion

Clark, this month’s Poem-a-Day Guest Editor, is the author of the essay collection Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (Handtype Press, 2014) and the poetry collection How to Communicate (W. W. Norton, 2022). He is a Braille instructor and Protactile trainer living in Hopkins, Minnesota. Read and listen to a Q&A with Clark about his Poem-a-Day curatorial approach. 

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2024 First Book Award 

Submissions for the 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, judged by Victoria Chang, will be accepted online until September 1, 2023. The winner of the First Book Award will receive $5,000, publication by Graywolf Press, a six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy, and distribution of their winning book to thousands of Academy members.
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 #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Join Poetry Coalition member Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in celebrating the launch of Rooja Mohassessy’s When Your Sky Runs Into Mine and The Book of Redacted Paintings by Arthur Kayzakian, alongside poets Jose Hernandez Diaz and Emily Jon Tobias. Friday, July 14, at 8 p.m. PDT/ 11 p.m. EDT, at the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center (681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles) and live on YouTube. Register for free here

more at poets.org
  • Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. is seeking a full-time director of marketing and communications
     
  • University of California, Santa Barbara, is seeking a full-time visiting assistant professor in the classics department. 
     
  • O, Miami Poetry Festival is accepting applications for its 2023–2024 poetry festival fellowship. Apply by July 22, 2023. Learn more here
Revisit last week’s Poem-a-Day selections with us on Poets.org:

July 2: “A Prayer in Signs” by Alice Cornelia Jennings
July 3: “Power Out!” by Hayley Broadway
July 4: “Identity Voodoo” by Abiola Haroun
July 5: “Oak Skin” by Kris Ringman
July 6: “Douglass Pool” by Latif Askia Ba
July 7: “Necromancy for the Bitter” by Brian Koukol
July 8: “The Music of Beauty” by James Nack
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