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January 5, 2021

Poems by 2021 Poem-a-Day Guest Editors


A new year of daily, thrilling poems lies ahead. Get to know the 2021 Poem-a-Day guest editors by reading their work on Poets.org: 

January: “Ghareeb” by Fatimah Asghar
February: “Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
March: “Touched by Dusk, We Know Better Ourselves” by Sasha Pimentel
April: “The Weighing” by Jane Hirshfield
May: “O Spirit” by Sumita Chakraborty
June: “Fear and Loathing (Comin’ and Goin’)” by Anaïs Duplan
July: “winter solstice” by R. Erica Doyle
August: “Road at Ache” by Kazim Ali 
September: “You Rode a Loop” by Rosa Alcalá
October: “Center of the World” by Safiya Sinclair
November: “The Way We Love Something Small” by Kimberly Blaeser
December: “We Lived Happily during the War” by Ilya Kaminsky

Announcing Twelve Poem-a-Day Guest Editors for 2021

The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2021. The guest editors are all award-winning poets who represent wide-ranging editorial perspectives and live in eight different states across the country. Subscribe to the free email version of the series at poets.org/poem-a-day.
Watch ATMOS Collective member Theo Ndlovu read W. B. Yeats’ “The Fisherman," as part of Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Coole Park Poetry series, directed by Matthew Thompson and produced in collaboration with Druid, Galway. 

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: A Reading Hosted by Alaska Quarterly Review 

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: a free, virtual reading featuring Academy of American Poets Chancellor Dorianne Laux, Camille Dungy, and Joe Millar, hosted by Alaska Quarterly Review. Sunday, January 10 at 3 PM AKST, 7 PM EST. 

2021 Poets Laureate Fellowships 

Submissions are being accepted for the 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships. The $50,000 fellowships will honor Poets Laureate of states, cities, counties, U.S. territories, or Tribal nations, enabling them to undertake impactful and innovative projects that will engage their fellow residents and address important issues with poetry. The fellowship program, made possible by a generous gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is now in its third year.

Awards for Books in Translation

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 through February 15, 2021.

Opportunities for Poets

  • HarperOne in New York City is currently seeking a Senior Marketing Manager to implement marketing campaigns for books and projects for Amistad, HarperVia, and HarperEspañol, imprints of The HarperOne Group at HarperCollins Publishers.
     
  • Princeton University Press in Princeton, New Jersey, is currently seeking two candidates for its Diversify Publishing Fellowship to be a part of either the Production Editorial or Special Sales & Grassroots Marketing departments. The deadline for applications is Monday, February 15, at 11:59 PM EST. 
     
  • Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina, is seeking a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor to teach first-year writing, as well as interdisciplinary writing minor courses starting July 1, 2021. 
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Fatimah Asghar on Curating Poem-a-Day

“It was really important to me that we were uplifting marginalized voices and bringing out a lot of folks whose work is just really really, really important. Some are my idols, and some are new poets that I’m really excited about.”

—Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come For Us (One World/ Random House, 2018), and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for the month of January. 

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day  


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

December 27: “A Song of Hope” by Charles Bertram Johnson 
December 28: “The Imperishable and Perishable Family” by Prageeta Sharma 
December 29: “Dog Park” by Brandon Brown 
December 30: “TM” by Eran Eads
December 31: “Ready for My Statement?” by Jacqueline Waters 
January 1: “Day 29 (2020)” by Jamila Woods 
January 2: “Never Enough of Living” by Léonie Adams
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