Poem-a-Day - Join us tomorrow for Gather in Poems

December 13, 2023

Join us tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET for Gather in Poems, an evening of readings by Academy Chancellors and beloved poets in the community, hosted in the spirit of gratitude and a shared hope for the upcoming year, featuring Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame Dawes, Oliver de la Paz, Denice Frohman, Kimiko Hahn, Joy Harjo, John Keene, Dorianne Laux, Naomi Shihab Nye, Yasmine Seale, Yvette Siegert, and Afaa Michael Weaver. Gather in Poems is presented in collaboration with W. W. Norton & Company. Free and virtual; closed captioning available. Register here.


Read poems by some of the Gather in Poems featured readers:


Self-Portrait as Lilith” by Elizabeth Acevedo
Dawn” by Kwame Dawes
Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father’s Uncertainty and Nothing Else” by Oliver de la Paz
The Art of Shooting in the Dark” by Denice Frohman
The Dream of Shoji” by Kimiko Hahn
Without” by Joy Harjo
Words” by John Keene
I Never Wanted to Die” by Dorianne Laux
Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Agitated Air [Months pass. A year. You’re here still]” by Yasmine Seale
The Silver Thread” by Afaa Michael Weaver

“And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.”

—from Citizen, “VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]” 

Claudia Rankine is the author of several works, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2024) and Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), which received the 2016 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Book Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry, and the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. A Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets, Rankine joined the NYU creative writing program in the fall of 2021. Read and listen to a Q&A with Rankine about her Poem-a-Day curatorial approach.

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“But being a poet laureate has given my writing more of a community focus, broadened my perspective, and widened the possibilities for community engagement as a poet.”

Read an interview with Joseph Bruchac, 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow and poet laureate of Saratoga Springs, New York. Read poems by Bruchac:

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Neh Tsoi
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Congratulations to Jennifer Bartell Boykin, 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (Columbia, South Carolina), on her latest publication, Traveling Mercy (Finishing Line Press, 2023). Read more about Bartell Boykin, including poems, on Poets.org. 

Watch Campbell McGrath read James Wright’s poem “A Blessing.” This is the fifth 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 Little Haiti in Miami, Florida.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

The Brooklyn Rail presents a conversation on the exhibit “Singing in Unison: Between Waves,” featuring artists Irwan Ahmett, Jia-Jen Lin, Maya Jeffereis, Tita Salina, Vandy Rattana, and Alice, Nien-Pu Ko, with a poetry reading by Oki Sogumi on Friday, December 15, at 11 a.m. ET via Zoom. Register for free here.

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

December 3: “Corliss Engine” by MacKnight Black
December 4: “Learning” by Brian Blanchfield
December 5: “(Re)location” by Kinsale Drake
December 6: “Hanging” by Jerome Ellison Murphy
December 7: “Abracadabra” by Mia Kang
December 8: “The Dark Cavalier” by Margaret Widdemer
December 9: “The Crying of Water” by Arthur Symons
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