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Poems for Labor Day, Empowering Students Through Poetry, Energy in All Directions, and more
August 31, 2021

Poems for Labor Day 
 

Read this collection of poems from Poets.org for Labor Day weekend: 

 “I Want the Wide American Earth” by Carlos Bulosan 
 “the shoes” by Wo Chan
 “Once Barbie Chang Worked” by Victoria Chang
 “I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443)” by Emily Dickinson
 “work: an ode for the human micropoem*” by Jennifer Karmin
 “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
 “Vacation End” by Leslie Pinckney Hill
 “My People” by Langston Hughes 
 “The Tired Worker” by Claude McKay 
 “Night Prayer for Various Trades” by Naomi Replansky
 “On Gathering Artists” by Alberto Ríos
#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: #TeachLivingPoets: Empowering Students through Poetry

Join author Melissa Smith and poet Micah Bournes for our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: #TeachLivingPoets: Empowering Students through Poetry, part of the National WRITE Center’s Centering Students’ Identities through Culturally Responsive Reading and Writing Practices series. Other presenters include librarian-activist, Julia Torres, and Dr. April Baker Bell. September 29 at 6:30 pm EST. (Sponsored) Learn more here. 
Energy in All Directions 

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the Tang Museum commissioned poets Nickole Brown, Victoria Chang, Forrest Gander, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Castro Luna, Eileen Myles, Francine Prose, and TC Tolbert, to write poems inspired by the “Energy in All Directions” exhibit at the Tang Museum, in honor of the museum’s 20th anniversary. Composer Kenneth Frazelle created a song based on the poems, which was performed by Lindsay Kesselman and the Sandbox Percussion. Watch the collaboration here. (Photo of installation view, October 2020, by Jeremy Lawson). 
Accepting Submissions for 2022 First Book Award

There is still time to submit to the 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry, judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess. 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.
Astra Magazine in New York City is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to oversee production for a new literary quarterly. 

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is seeking two full-time tenure track Assistant Professors to teach a two/two load. 
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 22: “The Drowsy World Dreams On” by Walter Everette Hawkins 
August 23: “Soonisms” by Barton Smock
August 24: “Hunter heart a lonely is the” by Kyle Dacuyan 
August 25: “She leads me to tongues” by Harmony Holiday 
August 26: “Confessional to Famous Iranian Pop Singer Dariush” by Darius Atefat-Peckham
August 27: “Brown Girl Creed” by Barbara Jane Reyes
August 28: “Promise” by Georgia Douglas Johnson 
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