autumn equinox

“Virginia, Autumn,” Molly McCully Brown
“Dark Eye in September,” Paul Celan
“Autumn Leaves,” Margaret Daramola
“Besides the Autumn poets sing (131),” Emily Dickinson
“Grove of Meaning,” Nicholas Gulig

“Poème d’Automne,” Langston Hughes
“Harvest Time,” Emily Pauline Johnson
“To Autumn,” John Keats
“9th and 2nd,” Joy Ladin
“October Sonnet,” Adrian Matejka
“The Fruits Of Death,” Ameen Rihani

from the archive

Former President of the Academy of American Poets Lyn Chase and Helen Burns unveiling T. S. Eliot’s 22-cent stamp at a ceremony inaugurating a series of poet stamps put out by the U.S. Postal Service. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888.

chancellor interview

As a Chancellor, I was surrounded by the voices of my soul.

Read an interview with former Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye in which she reflects on her time serving the Academy and the community.

banned books week

One of Gwendolyn Brooks’s most famous poems, “We Real Cool,” was banned in schools in Mississippi and West Virginia in the 1970s.

Read more about poets banned and censored throughout history.

chancellors reading

Join us for the Academy of American Poets’ ninetieth anniversary celebration at the Guggenheim Museum, featuring readings by our Chancellors. 

Friday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. ET

$15 or $12 for Academy members

pick of the week

Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips and Sebastian Merrill headline the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Tell It Slant Poetry Festival on September 28. Free online reading. Register in advance. (Sponsored)

brooklyn book festival

Join us at the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival for “New Works: A Poetry Reading” featuring Kay Gabriel, Frederick Joseph, Megan Pinto, and Margaret Ray, moderated by the Academy’s Programs Director, Nikay Paredes.

Sunday, Sept. 29, 11 a.m. ET

Free and open to the public