"There is no mortal art / Can overcome Time’s deep, corroding rust"

January 31, 2024

Sonnets

I Buy My Monster Roses” by Diannely Antigua
Love Poem in the Black Field” by Ariana Benson
Sheep in Winter” by John Clare
American Sonnet (10)” by Wanda Coleman
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things]” by Terrance Hayes
Remember Not” by Helene Johnson
Love Note: Surely” by Ashley M. Jones
dent” by Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
I’m Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest” by Paige Lewis
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find]” by Petrarch
Winter Remembered” by John Crowe Ransom
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother” by Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés

Celebrating Black History Month
 
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Black History Month. In honor of Black voices, browse essays, read archival letters from classic Black poets, as well as poems by both classic and contemporary poets, on Poets.org. 
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“I feel at home in my community in large part because of poetry, a medium whose language names the place where I live and gives voice and credence to the people I live with.”

Read an essay by Nicholas Gulig, 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow and poet laureate of Wisconsin, on poetry and community. Read a selection of Gulig’s poems on Poets.org

An Image of The Book In Which I Hear You
Grove of Meaning
Of Genesis

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In Memoriam

“I see the mountains as I saw them
When my heart was young”


We mourn the loss of N. Scott Momaday, who passed away on January 24, 2024, in Santa Fe. Momaday’s books of poetry include In the Bear’s House (St. Martin’s Press, 1999) and In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961–1991 (University of New Mexico Press, 1992). His first novel, House Made of Dawn (New American Library, 1969), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Momaday was a founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian. He was the Regents Professor of the Humanities at the University of Arizona. Read more about Momaday, including his poems, on Poets.org: 


The Snow Mare
Remembering Milosz and Esse
Prayer for Words
A Benign Self-Portrait

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We are pleased to announce that we have received our largest philanthropic award ever to support the work that civic poets undertake across communities and to help sustain literary ecosystems that are committed to collaboration, inclusivity, and diversity. These two grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, totaling $5.7+ million, will enable the Academy to continue to fund Poet Laureate Fellowships and serve as the fiscal administrator of the Poetry Coalition for the next three years, expanding the reach and impact of both programs across the country.

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Join Us at #AWP24

If you’re attending #AWP24 in Kansas City next week, stop by the Academy of American Poets’ booth (#724) to say hello and pick up some free poetry merch. We look forward to seeing you there!

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

Don’t miss 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, 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). 

Join us on Thursday, March 7, at 4:30 p.m. PT / 7:30 p.m. ET (online) for the 2024 Blaney Lecture: “Making the Invisible Visible: Poetry, Science, Perception-Increase, and Change” delivered by Jane Hirshfield, Chancellor Emerita of the Academy of American Poets.

Both poems and science are tools for making visible what was always there to be seen. Both also create new ways of seeing, feeling, knowing, living. Amid the crises, griefs, divisions, and losses of the current era, this talk explores a few examples of the ways in which expansions of saying and knowing are also expansions of what might be possible, thinkable, doable.

This virtual event is free to attend with registration. Closed captioning will be provided. 

Listen to Campbell McGrath read “The Everglades.” This is the ninth 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. 

On Wednesday, January 24, The Academy of American Poets, now celebrating its ninetieth year, presented its Leadership Awards to William I. Campbell, Rita Dove, W. W. Norton & Company, and Jonathan Plutzik and The Betsy Hotel at Trinity Wall Street’s Parish Hall in New York City. The award ceremony featured readings by Kimiko HahnJoseph O. Legaspi, Yesenia Montilla, and honoree Rita Dove.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Join The Poets Corner for a special reading and conversation with Academy of American Poets Education Ambassador Richard Blanco on Sunday, February 11, at 4 p.m. ET via Zoom. Register for free here.

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). 

  • The Academy of American Poets in New York, New York, is seeking a part-time administrative assistant.
     
  • The Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York, New York, is seeking a full-time programs manager. Apply by March 1. 
     
  • Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, is seeking a full-time assistant teaching professor of English and writing.
Revisit last week’s Poem-a-Day selections with us on Poets.org:

January 21: “The Quids” by Laura Riding Jackson
January 22: “The Lost Breath of Trees” by Colleen J. McElroy
January 23: “To the Air” by Myronn Hardy
January 24: “Interview” by Jordan Kapono Nakamura
January 25: “In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks” by Valzhyna Mort
January 26: “Club Paradise” by Ishion Hutchinson
January 27: “Love’s Growth” by John Donne
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