Poems for Halloween, Books Noted Live, Dodge Poetry Festival Continues

October 27, 2020

Poems for Halloween

Get into the Halloween spirit with this collection of poems from Poets.org:

“The Pomegranate” by Eavan Boland
“The White Witch” by James Weldon Johnson
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Bats” by Paisley Rekdal
“Black Cat” by Rainer Maria Rilke
“October” by Evalyn Callahan Shaw

Books Noted Live

Our final Books Noted Live event is taking place this Friday, October 30, featuring Kazim Ali, author of The Voice of Sheila Chandra (Alice James Books, 2020) and Joshua Bennett, author of Owed (Penguin Books, 2020). The event is free with registration. ASL services provided.

Watch Jensen Gray read Sylvia Plath’s poem "Epitaph for Fire and Flower,” as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films.

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Dodge Poetry Festival Continues

Join us at the first ever all-virtual Dodge Poetry Festival featuring more than 75 poets, through November 1. Live streaming passes are free and closed captioning is available for all events. Don’t miss Poetry and Poems in Support of Black Lives on Friday, October 30, featuring Academy Chancellors Kwame Dawes and Terrance Hayes. For the full schedule of festival events, visit DodgePoetryFestival.org.

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 Monday, 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.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week:
A Reading and Conversation with Ilya Kaminsky

Don't miss our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: a virtual reading and conversation with poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky, winner of the 2019 Academy of American Poets Fellowship and author of Deaf Republic, which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. Presented by Just Buffalo Literary Center. Free with registration.

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.

Opportunities for Poets

Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, is seeking a full-time Creative Writing Director of El Centro Latinx for Latino & Latin American Studies Program, who will also teach creative writing courses.
Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, is seeking a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in English to begin teaching courses August 2021.
University of Washington Press in Seattle, Washington, is seeking a full-time Senior Project Editor who will be responsible for the production of approximately 25 to 30 titles annually.
826 National in San Francisco, California, is seeking a full-time Director of Development and Marketing to work with the CEO to implement strategies that meet fundraising goals, and more.

Ari Banias on Curating Poem-a-Day

“I thought about some of the poets making work I’d most want to see right now, a list much longer than there are days in a month. I thought about the rejection of easy complacencies, about veracity, about rage and range, and transformation—not as formal expectation, but as felt process—and about the many ways poetry can intersect with the life or lives lived behind or within or around it.”

—Ari Banias, author of Anybody (W. W. Norton, 2016) and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor through October 30th.

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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

October 18: “[My ancestors are empty words]” by Kerry Carnahan
October 19: “[th(e)reat] → siege engine” by Trace Howard DePass
October 20: “ars poetica” by Aldrin Valdez
October 21: “mountain language” by Öykü Tekten
October 22: “Evolution” by Margaret Ross
October 23: “Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018” by Daniel Borzutzky
October 24: “Like, Comma, Like” by Kay Gabriel

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Poems for Halloween, Books Noted Live, Dodge Poetry Festival Continues

Poems for Halloween

Books Noted Live

Dodge Poetry Festival Continues

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

Academy of American Poets First Book Award

Opportunities for Poets

Ari Banias on Curating Poem-a-Day

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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Excerpt from "Defacing the Monument" by Susan Briante

"Free" by Kevin Killian

"Like, Comma, Like" by Kay Gabriel

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