Summer Rain Poems, Poetry Coalition Fellowship deadline, and more

July 6, 2021

Summer Rain

Summer rain and humidity can often bring nostalgia. Slow down and consider these poems from Poets.org:

“Rain” by Claribel Alegría
“Flood” by Eliza Griswold
“Heavy Summer Rain” by Jane Kenyon
“Summer Rain” by Amy Lowell
“Summer Morn in New Hampshire” by Claude McKay

Watch and listen to Jade Jordan read Eavan Boland’s poem, “The Lost Art of Letter Writing,” as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Brooklyn Poets Yawp

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Brooklyn Poets Yawp with Rosebud Ben-Oni, a poetry workshop exploring old and new eroticisms followed by an open mic. Monday, July 12, at 7 p.m. EDT. Buy tickets for this virtual event here.

Apply by Today: 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 tonight, Tuesday, July 6.

National Book Foundation in New York City is seeking a Communications and Marketing Manager, a Programs Coordinator, and Interns to join its team.
Trine University in Angola, Indiana, is seeking a full-time Assistant Professor of Communications and English to teach Technical Communication, First Year Writing, Speech, and Business Communication.
Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, is seeking a Professor of English and Digital Media to teach six credit hours of film production and/or digital media courses and nine credit hours per semester of English composition courses.

In this short Q&A, July Poem-a-Day guest editor, R. Erica Doyle, author of proxy (Belladonna Books, 2013), discusses her curatorial approach and her own creative work.

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

June 27: “With the Lark” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 28: “Aspiration” by Tian-Ai
June 29: “The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers” by Precious Okoyomon
June 30: “freedom terrors” by dee(dee) c. ardan
July 1: “Searching for a Palestinian Necropastoral (Eve)” by George Abraham
July 2: “i traveled the world. it was fine.” by Samiya Bashir
July 3: “July” by Henrietta Cordelia Ray

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Summer Rain Poems, Poetry Coalition Fellowship deadline, and more

Summer Rain

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