National Book Awards Finalists' Poems, Announcing NYFA Fellows and Finalists, World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading

October 6, 2020

Poems by National Book Awards Finalists

Congratulations to this year’s National Book Awards finalists! Read their work on Poets.org:

“Wonder” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
“The Pedestrian” by Tommye Blount
“The End of a Nation” by Don Mee Choi
“brd” by Anthony Cody
“They Don't Love You Like I Love You” by Natalie Diaz

Nikki Giovanni reads her poem “Vote” for The Meteor’s #30DaysTillTomorrow series, focusing on voting rights in the countdown to the election. Watch the full video
on their IGTV channel.

Announcing the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows, Finalists, and Panelists

The New York Foundation for the Arts has announced the 2020 recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program. Read more about some of the recipients: Ama Codjoe, t’ai freedom ford, Marwa Helal, Omotara James, Joseph O. Legaspi, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Shane McCrae, Yesenia Montilla, Nicole Sealey, John Steven Murillo, and Jenny Mengyu Xie. Find the full list of fellows, finalists, and panelists here.

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 tomorrow, 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.

Academy of American Poets First Book Award

Submissions are open for the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry, judged by Claudia Rankine. The winner will receive $5,000 and a six-week all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy. The winning manuscript will be published by Graywolf Press in 2022. Submit by November 16.

Books Noted Live

Don’t miss our Books Noted Live event this Friday, October 9, featuring Aditi Machado, author of Emporium (Nightboat Books, 2020) and winner of the 2019 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Pamela Sneed, author of Funeral Diva (City Lights Books, 2020). The event is free with registration. ASL services provided.

Spanish Manuscript and Translation Prizes

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

CantoMundo in Tucson, Arizona, is seeking a Program Director to work closely with the Poetry Coalition Fellow, the Poetry Center, and the CantoMundo Advisory Board to organize the annual CantoMundo retreat, to be held fully online in June 2021.
Kickstarter in Brooklyn, New York, is seeking a full-time Director of Publishing Outreach to connect with its community of publishing, comics, and journalism creators across the world.
Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, is seeking a full-time Co-Director of MFA in Writing to oversee accreditation procedures and performing duties related to continued accreditation of the program.
The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University is seeking a Communications Coordinator to promote the Piper Center’s events and programs through newsletters, social media, the website, and more.

David Tomas Martinez on Curating Poem-a-Day

“There are poems written in Spanish. Poems about la frontera. Poems about blackness. Sensual poems. Politically active poems. There are nature poems. Poems that are funny. Poems that are heartbreaking. But they are all unapologetically brown poems. ”

—David Tomas Martinez, author of Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor through October 13th.

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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

September 27: “The Teller of Tales” by Gabriela Mistral
September 28: “Anniversary” by Diannely Antigua
September 29: “In Praise of Dreams” by Gary Soto
September 30: “Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love” by Carmen Giménez Smith
October 1: “Pledge Allegiance” by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
October 2: “brd” by Anthony Cody
October 3: “Birds in Flight, 1965” by Enrique Villasis, translated by Bernard Capinpin

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National Book Awards Finalists' Poems, Announcing NYFA Fellows and Finalists, World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading

Poems by National Book Awards Finalists

Announcing the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows, Finalists, and Panelists

World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading

Academy of American Poets First Book Award

Books Noted Live

Spanish Manuscript and Translation Prizes

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

Opportunities for Poets

David Tomas Martinez on Curating Poem-a-Day

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

Older messages

"When I Became La Promesa" by Peggy Robles–Alvarado

"California" by Rafael Campo

"Love Opened a Mortal Wound" by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique

"brd" by Anthony Cody

"Pledge Allegiance" by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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