Poem-a-Day - Summer Solstice Poems

June 22, 2021

Poems for Summer

Celebrate summer solstice, spend some time outdoors, and enjoy the longer days with these poems from Poets.org:

“Vacation” by Rita Dove
“Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“Summer Magic” by Leslie Pinckney Hill
“Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)” by Campbell McGrath
“Summer Morn in New Hampshire” by Claude McKay
“The House at Long Lake” by Philip Metres
“June Sunset” by Sarojini Naidu
“Summer Haibun” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“In the Mountains on a Summer Day” by Li Po
“in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say” by Danez Smith
“Accidental Pastoral” by Maggie Smith
“Summer Song” by William Carlos Williams

Celebrate Pride Month

To celebrate and honor Pride Month, we’ve curated this selection of poems, audio, videos, essays, books, and more highlighting LGBTQ+ voices and experiences.

The Poetry Breaks series was filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who coproduced it with the WGBH New Television Workshops. Watch Sharon Olds read “Topography.”

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Wolf Lamb Bomb

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: a book release event celebrating Aviya Kushner’s debut poetry collection, Wolf Lamb Bomb, followed by a discussion with Hebrew translator Adriana X. Jacobs. Co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore and the Guild Literary Complex. Tuesday, June 22, at 6:00 p.m. CT / 7:00 p.m. EDT. Learn more here.

Join us in congratulating Academy chancellors Natalie Diaz and Kwame Dawes, who’ve been named finalists for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Natalie was also awarded a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for her book, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press, 2020).

The 2021–2022 Poetry Coalition Fellowships

The Poetry Coalition, a network of over twenty-five poetry organizations coordinated by the Academy of American Poets, is pleased to announce the 2021–2022 Poetry Coalition Fellowships, which are paid fellowship positions for five individuals who will each assist a different Poetry Coalition organization for twenty hours per week over the course of a forty-week period. Applications will be accepted until July 6.

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is seeking a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor with a specialization in Poetry, to begin teaching Fall 2022.
David Zwirner in New York City is seeking a full-time Content Coordinator to create digital content related to David Zwirner, David Zwirner Books, and 52 Walker.
Words Without Borders in New York City is seeking a full-time digital marketing and communications manager to develop and implement digital communications strategies.

In this short Q&A, June Poem-a-Day guest editor, Anaïs Duplan, author of Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), discusses their curatorial approach and their own creative work.

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

June 13: “June Sunset” by Sarojini Naidu
June 14: “to give the thing a name that belongs to something else” by Hao Guang Tse
June 15: “In the ن of it all” by Kamelya Omayma Youssef
June 16: “Voice Clear As” by Kemi Alabi
June 17: “Who Hurt You” by LA Warman
June 18: “Mourning” by Margarita Cruz
June 19: “Our Land” by Langston Hughes

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Poem-a-Day - Summer Solstice Poems

Poems for Summer

Celebrate Pride Month

Older messages

"Commas" by Miller Oberman

"Disintegrating Calculus Problem" by McKenzie Toma

"I, Lover" by Elsa Gidlow

"Our Land" by Langston Hughes

"Mourning" by Margarita Cruz

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