national book award

Congratulations to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry.

Read poems from Something About Living (University of Akron Press, 2024):

“Slipshape”
“To Be Self-Evident”
“On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals”

“XXI [There was, before me],” Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871)

“Dog Star,” Kevin Young (November 8, 1970)

“Winter Colony,” Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928)

“The Past Is the Present,” Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887)

“This Is a Photograph of Me,” Margaret Atwood (November 18, 1939)

“Take the I Out,” Sharon Olds (November 19, 1942)

“So Many Constellations,” Paul Celan (November 23, 1920)

“Song for Almeyda,” III.,” Gayl Jones (November 23, 1949)

“This Morning, This First Poem,” Afaa Michael Weaver (November 26, 1951)

“The Angel that presided o’er my birth,” William Blake (November 28, 1757)

poet laureate fellow

“My work has never been about teaching people to be creative; it has always been about letting people be creative.”

From “Creativity: The Human Super Power” by 2024 Poet Laureate Fellow Angelika Brewer

new and forthcoming

Congratulations to 2024 Poet Laureate Fellow Traci Brimhall on her latest collection, Love Prodigal, published this week by Copper Canyon Press. Read a selection of poems from the collection:

“The End of Girlhood”
“Lacrimosa”
“Aubade on a Ghost Hunt”

Library of Congress Honors Arthur Sze

The Library of Congress will award Arthur Sze the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, for lifetime achievement. The award recognizes Sze’s distinguished career and eleven poetry collections, most recently The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems.

Learn more. (Sponsored)

Irish Arts Center’s 15th annual PoetryFest

Don’t miss a free weekend of readings and conversations with top poets from Ireland, Northern Ireland, and North America. Irish Arts Center’s 15th annual PoetryFest, curated by Nick Laird and Vona Groarke, starts tomorrow.

Learn more. (Sponsored)

pick of the week

Headed to the 2024 Miami Book Fair? Join us for our 90th anniversary reading and conversation featuring poets Joy Castro and Carlie Hoffman, highlighting questions of national identity, migration, displacement, and belonging, moderated by Mary Sutton, senior content editor for the Academy of American Poets.

Sunday, November 24, 11 a.m. ET. 300 NE Second Ave. (Room 8303), Miami, FL 33132