Poems on Flowers and Growth, Official Book Launch of Danzirly, and more

April 13, 2021

Poems on Flowers & Growth

As the natural world continues to slowly re-awaken around us, we reflect with poems on flowering and growth:

“[A cloud of flowers!]” by Matsuo Basho
“from ‘Fairies’” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
“The Heart of the Tree” by Henry Cuyler Bunner
“On Floriography” by Karen An-Hwei Lee
“picking flowers” by Nate Marshall
“Silhouette” by Janice Lobo Sapigao
“The Flower at My Window” by Lucian B. Watkins

Thirty Ways to Celebrate

Join us as we continue to celebrate the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month, an occasion we launched to honor the integral role that poets and poetry have in our culture. Explore thirty ways to participate virtually.

#NationalPoetryMonth Event Spotlight of the Week

Celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth with our NPM Event Spotlight of the Week: the official book launch of Danzirly by the 2019 Ambroggio Prize winner Gloria Muñoz, presented by the American Academy of Poets and the University of Arizona Press. Wednesday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m. PDT / 9:30 p.m. EDT. Register for this free virtual event here.

Every National Poetry Month we present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites young people in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by award-winning poets. Watch Janice Lobo Sapigao, 2020 Poets Laureate Fellow and the poet laureate of Santa Clara County, California, read “There Will Be No Funeral.”

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: A Reading with Hanif Abdurraqib

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: a virtual reading with 2020 Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize winner Hanif Abdurraqib, part of the Writers & Books Visiting Author Series. Thursday, April 15 from 7:30 p.m. EDT to 8:10 p.m. EDT. Register for this free event here.

Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, is seeking a full-time Instructor to teach professional writing in varying class sizes.
McNally Jackson Books in New York City is seeking a full-time General Manager to lead its Nolita team. To apply, email resume, cover letter, and references to Allison Glasgow, allison@mcnallyjackson.com.
The Paris Review is seeking an Online Editor and Managing Editor. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 23rd.

Jane Hirshfield Recommends a Poem

“During this past year, a few poems have been continual, sustaining, companions. One is James Baldwin’s ‘Untitled.’ The way the words are placed on the page exerts such a strong pull on the compass. It’s a poem made, too, of voice, and of voice and art’s promises. That a person standing under deluge can find such words and stance as this poem creates is in itself a surety-token that suffering can be navigated, can be survived.”

—Jane Hirshfield, author of Ledger (Knopf, 2020), and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for the month of April.

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

April 4: “Love Song” by Rainer Maria Rilke
April 5: “When Love” by Alicia Ostriker
April 6: “After Graduate School” by Valencia Robin
April 7: “Rock Paper Scissors” by Arthur Sze
April 8: “House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018” by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
April 9: “Nothing Wants to Suffer” by Danusha Laméris
April 10: “Winter to Spring” by Irvin W. Underhill

Thank you to the following 2021 #NationalPoetryMonth sponsors & partners who help make possible the largest literary celebration in the world, now in its 25th year: Copper Canyon Press, Ecco, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Four Way Books, Glen Hollow, Graywolf Press, Hanging Loose Press, the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University, Johns Hopkins University Press, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, Library of America, Milkweed Editions, the Modern Language Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Poems on Flowers and Growth, Official Book Launch of Danzirly, and more

Poems on Flowers & Growth

Thirty Ways to Celebrate

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: A Reading with Hanif Abdurraqib

Jane Hirshfield Recommends a Poem

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