Women in Translation Month, National Student Poets, and more

August 3, 2021

Women in Translation Month

Celebrate Women in Translation Month this August by reading the following poems from Poets.org:

“Flowers from the Volcano” by Claribel Alegría, translated by Carolyn Forché
“gathering words” by María Luisa Arroyo
“Trial Run” by Yau Ching, translated by Chenxin Jiang
“Love Opened a Mortal Wound” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique
“White Chairs” by Krystyna Dąbrowska, translated by Karen Kovacik
“Learning Late Letters” by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng
“Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream a World” by Margaret Noodin
“Twilight” by Carina del Valle Schorske, translation of Marigloria Palma

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: the 2021 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Reading Series by Lambda Literary, a member of the Poetry Coalition. A week-long public Reading Series featuring over 60 LGBTQIA+ Faculty, Fellows, and Writers-in-Residence. August 8 to 14. Learn more about these free virtual readings here.

2021 Class of National Student Poets

The National Student Poets Program honors and amplifies the voices of young poets in grades ten and eleven. Each of the five student poets selected represent a different region, and serve in their roles for a year. Meet the Class of 2021 here and read about their work.

2022 First Book Award Judge

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess will judge the 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry. The winner will receive $5,000 and their manuscript will be published by Graywolf Press in 2023. Submissions will be accepted online between August 1 and October 1, 2021, and the recipient will be announced in April 2022 during National Poetry Month.

California State University, San Bernardino is seeking a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor of Linguistics to begin teaching August 15, 2022.
Bookshop.org in Brooklyn, New York, is seeking a full-time Senior Marketing Manager to oversee marketing initiatives. To apply, send a resume and cover letter to nadine.vassallo@bookshop.org.
University of Chicago Press is seeking a full-time Editorial Assistant to help prepare book manuscripts for editing and typesetting.

In this short Q&A, August Poem-a-Day guest editor, Kazim Ali, author of Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water (Milkweed Editions, 2021), discusses his curatorial approach and his own creative work.

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

July 25: “Earth Evanescent” by Maxwell Anderson
July 26: “Give-Away Song” by Gwen Westerman
July 27: “I Was a Good Wife” by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
July 28: “UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, 2021....” by Ronaldo V. Wilson
July 29: “Landscape with a Hundred Turns” by Yanyi
July 30: “Once upon a Black Imagination...” by Natasha Marin
July 31: “Life” by Carrie Law Morgan Figgs

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Women in Translation Month, National Student Poets, and more

Women in Translation Month

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"XX Judgement" by Dan Lau

"Order" by Dan Rosenberg

"August Moonrise" by Sara Teasdale

"Life" by Carrie Law Morgan Figgs

"Once upon a Black Imagination..." by Natasha Marin

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