Join Us at Dodge Poetry Festival, Books Noted Live, Poems for October

October 20, 2020

Poems for October

As October settles in, leaves are beginning to turn. Continue reflecting on Autumn with this collection of poems from Poets.org:

“October (section I)” by Louise Glück
“Thinking of Frost” by Major Jackson
“O Autumn, Autumn!” by Effie Lee Newsome
“Leaves” by Lloyd Schwartz
“The Falling of the Leaves” by W. B. Yeats

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

Join us at the first ever all-virtual Dodge Poetry Festival featuring more than 75 poets, including the esteemed poets who serve on the Board of Chancellors. The festival will take place October 22–November 1. Live streaming passes are free and closed captioning is available for all events. For the full schedule of festival events, visit DodgePoetryFestival.org

Books Noted Live This Friday

Don’t miss our Books Noted Live event this Friday, October 23, featuring Yona Harvey, author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (Four Way Books, 2020) and Taylor Johnson, author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020). The event is free with registration. ASL services provided.

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

Join us in celebrating the publication of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America, 2020), edited by Academy of American Poets Chancellor Kevin Young. About the anthology, Time says,“[it] promises to rewrite the history of American verse.”

Watch Cathy Halstead read Tia Laurent's poem "Cinderella,” as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation's Read By series of poetry films.

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

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is seeking a full-time Lecturer to teach courses in the Writing and Communication Program.
Joy Revolution, an imprint at Random House Children’s Books in New York City, is seeking a full-time Editor to acquire and edit four-eight Joy Revolution titles a year.
One World, an imprint of Random House in New York City, is seeking a full-time Director of Publicity to lead publicity strategy for the imprint.
University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill is seeking a full-time Director of Publicity to lead its growing publicity team.

Ari Banias Recommends Poems from the Archive

“June Jordan’s poem ‘Calling on All Silent Minorities’ for how it lovingly wields urgency and directness—the all caps are formally perfect—and for its reaching into a collective future. Muriel Rukeyser’s queer little poem ‘The Conjugation of the Paramecium.’ Trace Peterson’s cheeky and smart ‘Exclusively on Venus’ for how it leverages humor as critique. Nazim Hikmet’s ‘Things I Didn’t Know I Loved,’ which I will always be reading.”

—Ari Banias, author of Anybody (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor from June 1-8 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 11: “Love in the City” by José Martí, translated by Esther Allen
October 12: “Flying Down the Five” by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
October 13: “Melancholia” by C. Dale Young
October 14: “Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star” by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
October 15: “[untitled]” by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
October 16: “He, Too” by Solmaz Sharif
October 17: excerpts from “Will There Be Singing” by Juliana Spahr

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Join Us at Dodge Poetry Festival, Books Noted Live, Poems for October

Poems for October

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

Books Noted Live This Friday

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

Opportunities for Poets

Ari Banias Recommends Poems from the Archive

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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"ars poetica" by Aldrin Valdez

"[th(e)reat] → siege engine" by Trace Howard DePass

"Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star" by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

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

"He, Too" by Solmaz Sharif

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