African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song, UNICEF Unite for Children Climate Change Summit, #PoetryNearYou

October 14, 2020

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

Celebrate the publication of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America, 2020), edited by Chancellor Kevin Young, by reading a few of the featured poets on Poets.org:

“Ode to the Head Nod” by Elizabeth Acevedo
“Autumn Passage” by Elizabeth Alexander
“Cento Between the Ending and the End” by Cameron Awkward-Rich
“The Plains of Peace” by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
“Bear Witness” by Tiana Clark
“A Prayer” by Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
“In the Evening” by Fenton Johnson
“Slippage, a Provocation” by Sharan Strange
“Theories of Time and Space” by Natasha Trethewey
“Hunter” by Phillip B. Williams

UNICEF Unite for Children Climate Change Summit

Join UNICEF USA’s Midwest and Southern California regions for the Unite for Children Climate Change Summit tomorrow, October 15, at 2 p.m. EDT, which will look within communities to see how individuals, companies, and organizations are working to protect and preserve the planet. The Summit will begin with J.P. Grasser reading his Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize winning work “Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild.”

Sasha Terfous reads “Identity” as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films.

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.

Poetry Near You Pick of the Week

Don’t miss our virtual #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: a reading and Q&A featuring Edward Hirsch, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and former Academy of American Poets Chancellor, and award-winning poet Jeffrey Harrison, who will read from their latest collections and discuss the craft of poetry. Sunday, October 18 at 4 p.m. EDT; hosted by Village Bookstore. Free and open to the public.

Find more virtual poetry events happening this week on our #PoetryNearYou calendar.

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.

Opportunities for Poets

University of Texas at Austin is seeking a full-time Associate Professor of Classics to teach graduate seminars and undergraduate courses.
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.

What Ari Banias is Reading

“I recently read Brandon Shimoda’s elegaic archival memoir The Grave on the Wall, which is just stunning. It will stay with me. Before that, Etel Adnan’s Of Cities and Women (Letters to Fawwaz), a book of David Wojarowicz’s transcribed tape journals called The Weight of the Earth, and Sadiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. I’m rereading Katerina Gogou’s Τωρα να δουμε εσεις τι θα κανετε: Ποιηματα 1979-2002 (Now let’s see what you’re going to do: Poems 1979-2002) in Greek. And next, I’m looking forward to Lara Mimosa Montes’s THRESHOLES, Canisia Lubrin’s The Dyzgraphxst, Alli Warren’s Little Hill, and francine j. harris’s Here is the Sweet Hand.”

—Ari Banias, author of Anybody (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor from June 1-9 and October 14th-October 30th.

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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

October 4: “Love Opened a Mortal Wound” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
October 5: “California” by Rafael Campo
October 6: “When I Became La Promesa” by Peggy Robles–Alvarado
October 7: “Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas” by Brenda Cárdenas
October 8: “Dysphoria” by Oliver Baez Bendorf
October 9: “Nó, Actually, Soy Salvadoreño” by Javier Zamora
October 10: “The Red Poppy” by Louise Glück

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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song, UNICEF Unite for Children Climate Change Summit, #PoetryNearYou

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

UNICEF Unite for Children Climate Change Summit

Academy of American Poets First Book Award

Poetry Near You Pick of the Week

Spanish Manuscript and Translation Prizes

Opportunities for Poets

What Ari Banias is Reading

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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