Poem-a-Day - "You live in the caesura of our times"

“I’m trying to write poems that reach toward joy and celebration. That’s not to say that I’ve veered away from the presiding tone of my work, but that I’m much more conscious of trying to reach a wider audience.”

—Read an interview with Oliver de la Paz, 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow and poet laureate of Worcester, Massachusetts. Read a selection of De la Paz’s poems on Poets.org: 

“Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father’s Uncertainty and Nothing Else”
“Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns”
“Diaspora Sonnet 25”

An #AWP24 Reading by Suji Kwock Kim, Sara Daniele Rivera, and Nicole Sealey, Presented by the Academy of American Poets

Saturday, February 10
12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. CT
Ballroom A, Level 2, Kansas City Convention Center

Join us for our signature AWP reading, featuring award-winning poets Suji Kwock Kim, author of Notes from the North (Smith/Doorstop, U.K., 2021) and Notes from the Divided Country (Louisiana State University Press, 2003); Sara Daniele Rivera, author of The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, forthcoming 2024), winner of the Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award; and Nicole Sealey, author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) and Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017). 

Get the 2024 National Poetry Month poster in celebration of the active role poetry plays in young people’s education. The poster features artwork by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton. The poster will be distributed free-of-charge to 85,000 classrooms, libraries, bookstores, community centers, and homes in time for the April 2024 occasion of National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. 

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Poets House celebrates its reopening with a free, community-wide celebration featuring performances by the Cornelius Eady Trio and readings by Nicole Sealey, Monica Youn, and others, on Saturday, January 27, at 3 p.m. ET at Poets House (Elizabeth Kray Hall, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282). Learn more.

2024 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 will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2025. The judge is Norma Elia Cantú. Learn more here and apply by February 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET).

2024 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 2023. The judge is Valzhyna Mort. Learn more here and apply by February 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET).