Spring into Poetry: Announcing New Education Programs

March 20, 2024

Thanks to a two-year grant from Hawthornden Foundation, we’re thrilled to announce new education programs for readers of all ages, which offer free poetry workshops to students and teachers in New York City public schools, as well as online literary seminars to lifelong learners all over the world.

Our inaugural season of literary seminars features Pulitzer winner and former Academy Chancellor Carl Phillips on Gwendolyn Brooks, celebrated translator Sophus Helle on Gilgamesh, and Harold Morton Translation Award winner Stephanie McCarter on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

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María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado was born in Manati, Puerto Rico, and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts.

She is the author of several books, including Thought Here Would Cure Me of There (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2024) and Resistencia: Resilience (Human Error Publishing, 2023), a collection of poems and essays.

Arroyo Cruzado has been awarded both a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and New England Public Radio’s Arts and Humanities Award.

Read more about Arroyo Cruzado and a selection of her poems newly added to our archive:

“living on marble street in the ’70s”
“The Flag is Bleeding, 2019”
“arrancar”
“This Time, Not an Intruder”

more at poets.org

Spring Equinox

“Near the End of April” by William Stanley Braithwaite
“To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time” by Countee Cullen
“Dear March—Come in—(1320)” by Emily Dickinson
“Spring Song” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Chant of Spring” by Elsa Gidlow
“When the Green Lies over the Earth” by Angelina Weld Grimké
“Water Front Streets” by Langston Hughes
“How Near to Fairyland” by Yone Noguchi
“Spring Song” by Dorothy Parker
“Spring in Tulwa Thlocco” by Alexander Posey
“A Spring Dirge” by Ameen Rihani
“Spring” by Maeng Sa-song
“Grace Among the Ferns” by Analicia Sotelo

In celebration of the Academy’s ninetieth anniversary and Women’s History Month, we share this archival audio from a reading featuring Gwendolyn Brooks at the Guggenheim Museum on May 3, 1983. The recordings include Brooks reading the poems “We Real Cool,” “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story,” “Ballad of Pearl May Lee,” and others.

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Watch Dante: Inferno to Paradise on PBS. The profound and moving two-part documentary chronicles the life, work, and legacy of Dante Alighieri and The Divine Comedy. Free to stream on PBS.org or the PBS app through April 15.

Dear Poet 2024

Every National Poetry Month we present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites young people in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by award-winning poets. The submission period for Dear Poet 2024 is now open until April 22, 2024.

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“I believed it might unstitch
me from my own grief,

the way I became no more
or less beautiful

when I became a mother”

—From “Weaning, I Listen to Paganini’s Concerto No. I”

Kendra DeColo is the author of I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World (BOA Editions, 2021); My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016); and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. DeColo has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell. Read and listen to a Q&A with DeColo on her Poem-a-Day curatorial approach.

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#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Join us for a reading and conversation with former Academy Chancellor Terrance Hayes, followed by an introduction to and reading by the newly selected 2024 Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence, Meg Day. Tuesday, March 26, 6:30–8 p.m. ET. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128. Use code PIR5 for $5 off the general ticket type. Register here. (Sponsored)

2024 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize & 2024 James Laughlin Award

We are now accepting submissions from publishers for the 2024 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, which recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in 2023, and the 2024 James Laughlin Award, given to a second book of poetry forthcoming in 2025. Learn more here and apply by May 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET).

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2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships

The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships are $50,000 awards given to honor poets of literary merit appointed to serve in civic positions and to enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that engage their fellow residents, including youth, with poetry, helping to address issues important to their communities. We are accepting applications for the 2024 fellowships until April 8, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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Feminist Press is seeking a full-time senior editor.
Rutgers University–Camden in New Jersey is seeking a full-time assistant professor in creative writing.
Poets & Writers in New York, New York, is seeking a full-time director of programs & partnerships.

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

March 10: “The Alpine Sheep” by Maria White Lowell
March 11: “You’re the Top” by Ellen Bass
March 12: “This Too Shall Pass” by Kim Addonizio
March 13: “Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)” by Patrick Rosal
March 14: “2-Sided Map Shows Line Where Falling Bodies Will Land” by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 15: “But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio” by Yona Harvey
March 16: “The Coming of Night” by Skipwith Cannell

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