don’t miss member-exclusive benefits

Not yet a member of the Academy of American Poets? Join today in time for our exclusive members-only seminar featuring Brenda Wineapple on Emily Dickinson on Monday, December 9, at 2:30 p.m. ET.

In addition to this free seminar, you’ll receive exclusive member benefits such as American Poets, a biannual journal featuring poetry and inspiring essays by some of today’s best poets.

All levels of membership qualify for this seminar.

“I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone,” Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875)

“This Is My Life,” by William Stanley Braithwaite (December 6, 1878)

“Trees,” Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886)

“The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me,” Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913)

“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent,” John Milton (December 9, 1608)

“XLV [Before the ice is in the pools],” Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830)

“Northern Pike,” James Wright (December 13, 1927)

“The Poem as Mask,” Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913)

“Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set],” George Santayana (December 16, 1863)

“What Things Want,” Robert Bly (December 23, 1926)

“Prayer,” by Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894)

“Supply and Demand,” Clarence Major (December 31, 1936)

Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute Reading

Join the Folger Shakespeare Library in person or virtually for the Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute Reading on Tuesday, December 10, featuring a reading by the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award winner Kimiko Hahn.

Learn more and get tickets here. (Sponsored)

poem-a-day guest editor

“You have to live with books. You have to read them over and over again.”

Read and listen to an interview with our December Poem-a-Day Guest Editor Victor Hernández Cruz.

2025 Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship

In the spirit of Walt Whitman’s encouragement of “Poets to Come,” Walt Whitman Birthplace Association is happy to announce the Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship will be accepting submissions from January 6, 2025 through March 31, 2025.

Learn more. (Sponsored)

pick of the week

Celebrate written, spoken, and signed poetry at Sound/Off: An Evening of Poetry in the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda and view the latest exhibition Harmony and Dissonance. Conceived of by the Guggenheim’s 2024 Poet-in-Residence Meg Day, readers include Raymond Antrobus, Noah Buchholz, Abby Haroun, Camisha Jones, Raymond Luczak, and Sam Rush. Wednesday, December 11, 7 p.m. ET, at Guggenheim New York, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128. (Sponsored)

Don’t miss this special reading celebrating Victor Hernández Cruz’s Poem-a-Day curation! Tuesday, December 10, 7 to 9 p.m. at Bronx Music Hall (438 East 163rd Street). Tickets are $5 at the door.

translation prizes

Submissions are now open for the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, a $1,000 prize that recognizes a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in 2024, and the 2025 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize, a $10,000 prize given for the translation into English of a significant work of modern Italian poetry. Submit by February 15.