Poem in Your Pocket Day, Twenty Ten Twenty-Five, and more

Thirty Ways to Celebrate: It’s the Last week of National Poetry Month! 

#NationalPoetryMonth Event Spotlight of the Week

Celebrate the last week of #NationalPoetryMonth with our Spotlight Event: Living Nations, Living Words with U.S. Poet Laureate and Academy of American Poets Chancellor Joy Harjo. Hosted by the School of Advanced Research and supported in part by the Academy of American Poets. Wednesday, April 28 at 2 p.m. MDT / 4 p.m. EDT. Register for this free event here. 
 

Twenty Ten Twenty-Five: A Special Mellon Foundation Project Celebrating 25 Years of National Poetry Month

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Legacies of Black Poetry—Global Edition

Join us for our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Furious Flower’s Ancestors and Inheritances: Legacies of Black Poetry—Global Edition, which invites Black poets with non-US roots to consider how their writing is informed by their relationship to home, culture, and countries of origin and residence. Featuring Academy of American Poets Chancellor Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda, Safiya Sinclair, Ladan Osman, and more. Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and Amazon Literary Partnership. Friday, April 30 at 7 p.m. EDT. Learn more about and register for this free virtual event here. 

Upcoming Contest Deadlines 

Poetry presses and publishers, don’t miss the May 15th deadline for the 2021 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded to the most outstanding book of 2020, and the 2021 James Laughlin Award, which recognizes and supports a second book forthcoming in 2022.
 

Thank You to Jane Hirshfield for Curating Poem-a-Day in April 

“The old crises are still here—the crises of climate and biosphere, the crisis of our perennial, and increasing, human failings. I don’t know how my poems may enter them differently now. But one of the gifts of long silence, for me, is that the voice that returns is a voice changed. When I’ve forgotten who I was, how I spoke, what questions I used to ask, something new can emerge.”

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

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