Poems for Hispanic Heritage Month, World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading, Announcing Translation Contests

September 15, 2020

Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with this collection of Latinx voices from Poets.org:

“Ode to the Head Nod” by Elizabeth Acevedo
“In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles” by Francisco X. Alarcón
“Evergreen” by Oliver Baez Bendorf
“a brief meditation on breath” by Yesenia Montilla
“I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At” by José Olivarez
“Ballad of Forgotten Places” by Olga Orozco
“notes on the seasons” by Raquel Salas Rivera
“Mexican American Sonnet” by Iliana Rocha
“All of Us” by Erika L. Sánchez
“On Translation” by Mónica de la Torre

National Poetry Month Poster Competition for Students

The Academy of American Poets invites students in grades 9 through 12 to enter artwork to be considered for the 2021 National Poetry Month poster competition. The winner will be selected by judges Maira Kalman, renowned illustrator, and Renée Watson, New York Times-bestselling YA author and poet. The winning artwork will be printed on 100,000+ copies of the official April 2021 poster, which will be distributed for free to teachers, families, schools, libraries, and classrooms nationwide.

World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading

Join the Academy of American Poets and Words Without Borders for “World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading,” a celebration of the 2020 Poems in Translation contest winners on Wednesday, October 7th. The event is free with advance registration and will feature readings by Bryan Mendoza, Enrique Villasis, Bernard Capinpin, Chenxin Jiang, and others, hosted by contest judge David Tomas Martinez.

Watch Academy Chancellor Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin and recipient of the 2010 National Book Award for Lighthead, deliver the 2019 Blaney Lecture: “Survey of an American Century.”

Apply to Artist Relief

Cycle VI of Artist Relief is open now through September 23rd, at 11:59 pm EDT. If you’re an artist experiencing dire financial need because of COVID-19, apply at artistrelief.org. All artists—including poets and writers—who are 21 and older are encouraged to apply. If you’re able to donate to help support the must urgent needs of artists across the country, please visit artistrelief.org/donate.

Announcing Translation Contests

The Academy of American Poets is accepting submissions for the Ambroggio Prize, given to a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation; the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, recognizing a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year; and the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship, given for the translation into English of a significant work of modern Italian poetry. Submissions are open from September 15 through February 15, 2021.

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present. Submissions are now open through November 1. The judges for the 2021 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize are award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy and climate solutions strategist Katharine K. Wilkinson.

Opportunities for Poets

The Academy of American Poets in New York City is seeking a full-time Director of Finance who will be responsible for the finances of the Academy, including accounting and bookkeeping, financial management and reporting, and more.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia is seeking a full-time Assistant Professor of English to teach first-year composition and upper-level writing and literature courses.
University of Chicago Press is seeking a full-time Managing Editor for American Naturalist Journal to liaise between editors, reviewers, authors, the American Society of Naturalists, and more.

Poem-a-Day Guest Editor

Thanks to David Tomas Martinez, author of Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, who curated Poem-a-Day for this month’s weekdays through October 13th. Read a Q&A about Martinez’s curatorial approach and find out more about our guest editors for the year.

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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

September 6: “Sunshine After Cloud” by Josephine D. Heard
September 7: “on empathy” by Bettina Judd
September 8: “Driving at Night” by Rio Cortez
September 9: “Certificate of Live Birth” by Jasmine Reid
September 10: “Slippage, a Provocation” by Sharan Strange
September 11: “A Proclamation” by Ashaki M. Jackson
September 12: “Learning Late Letters” by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng

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Poems for Hispanic Heritage Month, World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading, Announcing Translation Contests

Hispanic Heritage Month

National Poetry Month Poster Competition for Students

World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading

Apply to Artist Relief

Announcing Translation Contests

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

Opportunities for Poets

Poem-a-Day Guest Editor

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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"Along the Border" by Jasminne Mendez

"breathe we" by Juan Felipe Herrera

"To the Country" by Rubén Darío

"Learning Late Letters" by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng

"A Proclamation" by Ashaki M. Jackson

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