Poems for Women's History Month and more

March 1, 2022

Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month with these voices from Poets.org:

“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
“The 19th Amendment & My Mama” by Mahogany L. Browne
“homage to my hips” by Lucille Clifton
“lake-loop” by Natalie Diaz
“Poem about My Rights” by June Jordan
“How to Triumph Like a Girl” by Ada Limón
“Exclusively on Venus” by Trace Peterson
“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton
“Girl Saints” by Emily Skaja
“Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah” by Patricia Smith

In this letter from our archive, Ai sends her materials to the Academy of American Poets after hearing that she has been selected as the winner of the Lamont Poetry Selection. Find more content for Women’s History Month, including essays, books, more poems, and photos from our archive.

“Every poem carries the seed of a story. And, like music, it’s able to get to the emotional heart of an experience, sometimes even before we grasp the idea of it. It’s that capacity for opening up and listening more deeply to the world around us that poetry offers.”

—Read this interview with 2021 Poet Laureate Fellow, Luisa A. Igloria, on her work in Virginia.

Replay Available

Watch the 2022 Blaney Lecture, “Beyond Empathy, Beyond the Archive: Notes on Poetic Representation,” delivered by Utah Poet Laureate and 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow Paisley Rekdal.

Read poems cited by Rekdal, as well as a full transcript of the lecture, here at Poets.org, along with past presentations of the annual Blaney Lecture.

The Blaney Lecture on contemporary poetry and poetics was created in memory of former Academy of American Poets Board member Dr. Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney, past president of Cedar Crest College and champion of women and education, by a gift from her estate.

Watch Lucille Clifton read “let there be new flowering” in this Poetry Breaks video. Poetry Breaks is a series of videos filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who coproduced the series with the WGBH New Television Workshops.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Matwaala’s Third Virtual Reading

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Matwaala’s third virtual reading celebrating the poets and artists of color who make visible the rich diversity of Native American poetry. Featuring Lyla June, Lucille Lang Day, Andrina Smith, Jeremy Dennis, and Kamala Platt. Thursday, March 3, at 8 p.m. EST. Register for this free event here.

The Jerome Foundation is open for applications for its fellowship program. Selected Minnesota and New York City-based artists will receive $50,000 over two consecutive years ($25,000 each year) to support their time and expenses for the creation of new work and artistic development. Applications are due May 4.
State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz is seeking to hire four faculty positions in the Department of Teaching & Learning.
Words Without Borders is seeking a full-time digital engagement & communications manager to develop and implement digital communications strategies aligned with the organizational goals.

Listen to Brenda Shaughnessy discuss her curatorial approach and her own creative work. The author of The Octopus Museum (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019), Shaughnessy is Poem-a-Day guest editor for March.

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

February 20: “We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time” by Elizabeth Curtis Holman
February 21: “All the Time Blues Villanelle” by Tim Seibles
February 22: “My Dead Friends” by Marie Howe
February 23: “Midnight Air in Louisville” by Afaa Michael Weaver
February 24: “God Could Not Make Her a Poet” by Cornelius Eady
February 25: “The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon” by Patricia Smith
February 26: “Shadow” by Bruce Nugent

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Poems for Women's History Month and more

Women’s History Month

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"As a Father of Daughters" by Hannah Aizenman

"It Bruises, Too" by Kwame Dawes

"Exodus" by Effie Lee Newsome

"Shadow" by Bruce Nugent

"The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon" by Patricia Smith

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