Announcing Six New Poem-a-Day Guest Editors for Summer Series Centering Black Poets

Dear Reader,

The Academy of American Poets is honored to announce six new guest editors for Poem-a-Day, the organization’s daily poetry series, who will each select work by contemporary Black poets to be featured in the publication on weekdays throughout the summer. These new curatorial partnerships are part of the Academy’s ongoing work to make unequivocally clear the essential and influential contributions that Black poets have made and make to American poetry. 

Poem-a-Day is the original and only digital series featuring new work by today’s poets. Reaching more than 500,000 readers each morning on Poets.org and via email and social media, Poem-a-Day is one of the largest platforms for a poet to share new work. 

The six new guest editors are: 

Major Jackson (June 22–July 3)
January Gill O’Neil (July 6–July 17)
Mahogany L. Browne (July 20–July 31)
Marilyn Nelson (August 3–August 14)
A. H. Jerriod Avant (August 17–August 28)
Nicole Sealey (August 31–September 11)
 

After September 11, the guest editors who had been previously selected for 2020 will resume their curation of Poem-a-Day: 

David Tomas Martinez (September 14–October 16)
Ari Banias (October 16–October 31)
Heid E. Erdrich (November)
Brian Blanchfield (December)
Fatimah Asghar (January 2021)
Sasha Pimentel (March 2021)
Jane Hirshfield (April 2021)

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“Their clouded assumption eyes me
like a runaway, guilty as night,
chasing morning”

—“Facing US” by Amanda Johnston