Poems for Spring, Black Girl Magic Ball, Book Recommendation from Janice Lobo Sapigao

March 16, 2021

Spring Equinox

Spring is slowly growing around us. Celebrate the Spring Equinox with these poems from Poets.org:

“Butterfly Catcher” by Tina Cane
“Cherry blossoms” by Toi Derricotte
“A Prayer in Spring” by Robert Frost
“Each year” by Dora Malech
“I Have This Way of Being” by Jamaal May
“After the Winter” by Claude McKay
“Near Spring Equinox” by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
“Sonnet” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
“Spring in Tulwa Thlocco” by Alexander Posey
“Spring Snow” by Arthur Sze

Watch Jennifer Foerster read Louis Little Coon Oliver's poem “The Sharp-Breasted Snake,” produced in collaboration with Tippet Rise Art Center and In-Na-Po, curated by Kimberly Blaeser and Jake Skeets.

Filmed by Monte Nickles and James B. Joyce, this video is a part of “Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place,” presented by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation's Read By series of poetry films.

Get Your Free Copy of the 2021 National Poetry Month Poster!

This year’s poster was designed by Bao Lu, a twelfth grader from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York and the winner of the 2021 National Poetry Month Poster Contest. Get your free copy of the poster!

It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.: Poetry & Environmental Justice

This year, the more than 25 organizations nationwide that compose the Poetry Coalition will launch “It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.: Poetry & Environmental Justice”, the coalition’s fifth annual programming initiative. The organizations will offer virtual programs that speak to this timely theme. This programming is made possible in part by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation which were secured by the Academy of American Poets.

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: the 2021 Black Girl Magic Ball

Join Poetry Coalition founding member Urban Word NYC for the 2021 Black Girl Magic Ball, a virtual benefit hosted by Mahogany L. Browne, honoring Sonia Sanchez, Dr. Eve L. Ewing, Camonghne Felix, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Tonight at 7 p.m. EST / 4 p.m. PST. Tickets start at $50 or $25 for students.

Janice Lobo Sapigao, Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County, California, Recommends

“Antiemetic for Homesickness (Penguin UK, July 2020) by Romalyn Ante is beautiful and refreshing, written as a person who is a nurse and a poet. The language of science, of migration, and of daughter are here. This book is helping me as I grieve. It’s a balm, ‘wherever we travel, we carry / the whole country with us -’”

—Janice Lobo Sapigao, author of like a solid to a shadow (Timeless, Infinite Light/ Nightboat Books, 2017), poet laureate of Santa Clara County, California, and 2020 Poets Laureate Fellow.

Opportunities for Poets

The Academy of American Poets is seeking a full-time Content Producer to create original content featuring the Academy’s Poets Laureate Fellows.
MIT Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is seeking a full-time Director of Marketing and Communication to lead the vision and marketing goals for the Press’s books, journals, and digital programs.
Princeton University Press in New Jersey is offering publishing internships in several departments including editorial, promotions/publicity and sales. Applications close Monday, March 29 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

Sasha Pimentel Recommends a Poem from Poets.org

“In her poem, ‘Incendiary Art,’ Patricia Smith insists on that kind of guarding, that insistence against effacement: that insistence through language that a person, and people, have lived, and are living.”

—Sasha Pimentel, author of For Want of Water (Beacon Press, 2017), and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for the month of March.

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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

March 7: “If You Knew” by Ruth Muskrat Bronson
March 8: “Soulwork” by Tracy K. Smith
March 9: “Blood and Bones” by Mahtem Shiferraw
March 10: “Advice for Using Blood in a Poem” by Albert Abonado
March 11: “Dear Beth” by Andrea Cote-Botero
March 12: “23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart” by Alessandra Narváez Varela
March 13: “Anthropocene: A Dictionary” by Jake Skeets

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"Ex(ile)" by Desiree C. Bailey

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

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"In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t" by Achy Obejas

Monday, March 15, 2021

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Poems for Spring, Black Girl Magic Ball, Book Recommendation from Janice Lobo Sapigao

Spring Equinox

Get Your Free Copy of the 2021 National Poetry Month Poster!

It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.: Poetry & Environmental Justice

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: the 2021 Black Girl Magic Ball

Janice Lobo Sapigao, Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County, California, Recommends

Opportunities for Poets

Sasha Pimentel Recommends a Poem from Poets.org

Last Week’s Poem-a-Day

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"Ex(ile)" by Desiree C. Bailey

"In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t" by Achy Obejas

"Wind" by Gwendolyn Bennett

"Anthropocene: A Dictionary" by Jake Skeets

"Dear Beth" by Andrea Cote-Botero

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