"The warplanes echoed across the heavens"

November 22, 2023
Mosab Abu Taha

“What is home: 
it is the shade of trees on my way to school
    before they were uprooted.”

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet and the author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights Books, 2022). The founder of the Edward Said Library, Gaza’s only English-language library, he is a former visiting poet in Harvard University’s department of comparative literature. Read work by him, newly added to our archive: 

Discoveries
Leaving Childhood Behind
What is Home?
Displaced

more at poets.org
dg okpik is always in pursuit of origins, but she writes an earth-centered poetry with urgency and with a flair for conflating the natural world with the mythic world of creation.”

—Academy Chancellor Emeritus Arthur Sze introduces dg nanouk okpik in “Emerging Poet: On dg nanouk okpik

Read more about okpik, including poems:

Inupiaq Women
When White Hawks Come
Anthropocene Years
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“as far as I am able to see all
the ways it works     all
they were doing was eating
the evening meal—

whether hunger made it that particular
pass-out gravitational pull up turning
as I see it         exciting
or pressurized as simply necessary

to eat to live” 

Academy Chancellor Ed Roberson shares two new poems on Poets.org:

( . . . As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)” 
Black Earth Song” 

more at poets.org

“The Great Salt Lake needs better public policy and political will to reverse an ecological disaster, but poetry helps to create conditions for better policy and public will. Writers need more than a reading series to sustain them, but the sustenance of such a community is invaluable.”

Read an interview with Lisa Bickmore, 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow and Poet Laureate of Utah. Read poems by Bickmore:

Dear David,
Concord
Ode

more at poets.org

“With ‘Ode to the Land,’ Harris and Sameth seek to foster a deeper appreciation for the local environment while providing a space for creative expression and community connection.”

Read more about Peter J. Harris and Carla Rachel Sameth, co-Poet Laureate Fellows of Altadena, CA, and their fellowship project here.

“I am a big fan of the work of Charles Wright as well, and there’s a poem on the Academy’s website called “Little Ending,” and it’s the kind of poem that Emily Dickinson says should take your head off. At this point in my life and in my writing career, I’m middle-aged, and so I’m naturally looking back at my own past and looking at what the future holds. And I think Wright’s late work really does an excellent job of memorializing the past, but also not sentimentalizing it either.”

Steve Bellin-Oka is the author of Instructions for Seeing a Ghost (University of North Texas Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. A Tulsa Artist Fellow in poetry and translation, he is also a research fellow at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. Read and listen to a Q&A with Bellin-Oka about his Poem-a-Day curatorial approach.

Join us on December 14 at 7 p.m. ET for Gather in Poems, a virtual reading in the spirit of gratitude and shared hope for the new year, featuring Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame DawesOliver de la Paz, Kimiko Hahn, Joy Harjo, Dorianne Laux, Naomi Shihab Nye, Afaa Michael Weaver, and others. Presented in collaboration with W. W. Norton & Company, which is celebrating its centenary in 2023. Free and open to the public; closed captioning available. Register here.

We look forward to gathering with you.

Watch Leslie Sainz read “Malecón/Miami.” This is the third of ten films in Read By Miami, a series produced by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation with O, Miami Poetry Festival. Directed by Eric Felipe-Barkin and shot in Coconut Grove and Biscayne Island.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Sharon Olds, Terrance Hayes, Tara Bergin, and more: Join Irish Arts Center for PoetryFest, their annual free weekend of events with top poets from Ireland and North America from December 1 through December 3, curated by Nick Laird. Buy tickets here. (Sponsored)

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

November 12: “The Bluebird” by Alexander Posey
November 13: “Faith” by SM Stubbs
November 14: “A Massive Aquarium Holding 1,500 Tropical Fish Bursts” by Sarah Audsley
November 15: “Far Away” by Matt W. Miller
November 16: “Without Reparations” by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
November 17: “The Earthlings” by Matthew Olzmann
November 18: “The Indian’s Awakening” by Zitkála-Šá
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