More Poems by the 2021 Poets Laureate Fellows, PEN America’s Women in Translation Month Reading, and more

August 10, 2021

2021 Poets Laureate Fellows’ Poems

Read a selection of poems by half of this year’s Poets Laureate Fellows. These poets, along with the rest of their cohort, will lead public poetry programs in their respective communities in the year ahead. Read more about their projects on Poets.org:

“Ocean Water” by Dasha Kelly Hamilton
“Reading Novalis in Montana” by Melissa Kwasny
“Can You Feel the Native American in Me” by M. L. Smoker
“Right Here” by Bobby LeFebre
“Lament” by Debra Marquart
“But there is still life here” by Trapeta B. Mayson
“Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget” by Anis Mojgani
“Shocks and Changes” by Chelsea Rathburn
“A Reason to be Angry” by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
“A True Poem” by Lloyd Schwartz
“INTO THE THICKET” by M. Bartley Seigel
“After the Music” by Brian Sonia-Wallace

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: PEN America’s Women in Translation Month Reading

Celebrate Women in Translation Month with our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: PEN America’s Women in Translation Month Reading featuring Adriana X. Jacobs, Vaan Nguyen, Arthur Reiji Morris, Li Kotomi and more. Moderated by Piotr Florczyk. Thursday, August 12, at 2:00 p.m. EST. Check out this free virtual event here.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to a team led by Academy Chancellor, Kwame Dawes, and Lorna Dawes, associate professor of University Libraries, to expand African poetry research and create an online portal.

Watch and listen to Kimberly Reyes read “Stain in Creases,” as part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation's Read By series of poetry films.

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.

The Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is seeking an open-rank tenure-track Professor in its MFA program to teach Native American and Indigenous poetry courses, MFA workshops, and serve on MFA thesis committees beginning September 1, 2022.

Penguin Random House in New York City is seeking a full-time Publicist to promote audiobooks from 1,800 titles a year.

Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, is seeking a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in African American literature and culture to begin teaching September 1, 2022.

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:

August 1: “August Moonrise” by Sara Teasdale
August 2: “Order” by Dan Rosenberg
August 3: “XX Judgement” by Dan Lau
August 4: “a feeling has passed before a charted present” by Kimberly Alidio
August 5: “Copernicus” by Timmy Straw
August 6: “French Toast” by Cammy Thomas
August 7: “The River Village” by Tu Fu, translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell

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More Poems by the 2021 Poets Laureate Fellows, PEN America’s Women in Translation Month Reading, and more

2021 Poets Laureate Fellows’ Poems

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"Poem for Rebecca Wight" by Rachel Moritz

"I let the flies bite me when I meditate" by Nick Demske

"Sunset" by Effie Lee Newsome

"The River Village" by Tu Fu, translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell

"French Toast" by Cammy Thomas

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