Presenting the Academy of American Poets' 2021–2022 Fall–Winter Season

September 28, 2021

Poems for Autumn

Reflect on the changing landscape and beginning of a new season with these poems:

“Autumn Leaves” by Marilyn Chin
“In Autumn” by Mark Irwin
“Thinking of Frost” by Major Jackson
“Revery” by Fenton Johnson
“Blackberry Eating” by Galway Kinnell
“9th and 2nd” by Joy Ladin
“Asi” Claudia Castro Luna
“Also Birds [excerpt]” by Dawn Lundy Martin
“Autumn” by Alexander Posey

Presenting the Academy of American Poets’ 2021–2022
Fall–Winter Season

Join us for our upcoming season of virtual events, which will run from October 2021 through February 2022 and include a conversation series with the Academy of American Poets Chancellors and other esteemed guests; Gather in Poems, a reading by the chancellors celebrating poetry and community; special partner events; and the Annual Blaney Lecture on contemporary poetry and poetics.

The Academy is committed to hosting accessible, inclusive events. Each event will be free to attend with advance registration and have closed captioning available. If you require an accommodation or service that is not currently offered by the organization, or if you are experiencing any accessibility issues with the registration site, please contact us at academy@poets.org at least 24-hours prior to the event.

Learn more about and register for our Fall–Winter events below.

Poetry & Social Change

Don’t miss this virtual conversation with Academy Chancellors Natalie Diaz, Nikky Finney, Joy Harjo, Tracy K. Smith, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Executive Director Kyle Dacuyan, and award-winning author Eve L. Ewing on the unique role that poetry plays in civic dialogue and social change. Thursday, October 14, at 7 p.m. EDT. Register for this free, virtual event here.

Poetry & Labor

Poetry & Labor, a virtual conversation with Academy Chancellors Kwame Dawes, Brenda Hillman, Marie Howe, Dorianne Laux, and Natasha Trethewey on the poet’s labor and how poetry envisions itself as a piece of work. Thursday, November 4, at 7 p.m. EDT. Register for this free, virtual event here.

Gather in Poems

Join us for another special evening of Gather in Poems, a reading and offering of community from the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors. Each poet will share a poem that inspires them, as well as works of their own, on the theme of coming together. Thursday, November 18, at 7 p.m. EST.

Poetry & Appetite

Poetry & Appetite, a virtual conversation with Academy Chancellors Ellen Bass, Marilyn Chin, Forrest Gander, Terrance Hayes, and David St. John on poetry and appetite, and on poems about the desires and needs of the body and of communities. Thursday, December 9, at 7 p.m. EST. Register for this free, virtual event here.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Garden of Verses

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Garden of Verses: a virtual benefit of The Merwin Conservancy on the occasion of W.S. Mewin’s birthday. Featuring Academy of American Poets Chancellors Forrest Gander and Kevin Young, Ada Limón, and more. Thursday, September 30, at 6 p.m. EDT. Register for this free event here. (Sponsored)

Deadline Approaching

This Friday, October 1, is the last day to submit your manuscript 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. The recipient will be announced in April 2022 during National Poetry Month.

The Academy of American Poets is seeking a full-time Membership & Development Associate who will assist in work to grow the base of supporters of the organization to meet fundraising goals.

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in New York City is seeking a full-time Associate Manager, Regional Partner Network to train and support more than 100 of the Alliance for Young Artist & Writers’ partners across the United States.

Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, is seeking a full-time Assistant Professor of English in Writing Center Administration and Rhetoric and Composition Studies.

Yale University Press in New Haven, Connecticut, is seeking a full-time Senior Editor to acquire twelve-fifteen books per year in the humanities.

Rosa Alcalá on Curating Poem-a-Day

Listen to Rosa Alcalá, author of MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem, 2017), discuss her curatorial approach and her own creative work.

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

September 19: “A Song of the Road” by José Santos Chocano, translated by John Pierrepont Rice
September 20: “Conversation in Isolation” by Harryette Mullen
September 21: “The Lobelias of Fear” by Bernadette Mayer
September 22: “Leave” by Monica Youn
September 23: “The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation” by Douglas Kearney
September 24: “Looking at Photos” by Jesús Cos Causse, translated by John Keene
September 25: “0” by Lauri García Dueñas, translated by Olivia Lott

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Presenting the Academy of American Poets' 2021–2022 Fall–Winter Season

Poems for Autumn

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"A Modified Villanelle for my Childhood" by Suzi F. Garcia

"The Patron Saints" by Balam Rodrigo, translated by Dan Bellm

"One Night" by Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by Thomas Walsh

"0" by Lauri García Dueñas, translated by Olivia Lott

"Looking at Photos" by Jesús Cos Causse, translated by John Keene

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