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11/24/2023
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Academy of American Poets Holiday Gift Guide
Our partners, sponsors, and advertisers present some of their offerings to help celebrate the holidays with the poets and readers in your life. View this email in your browser 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
11/24/2023
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"The Last Orgasm" by Tobias Wray
Stars and people and daffodils won't last forever. Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 24, 2023 The Last Orgasm Tobias Wray Stars and people and daffodils won't last forever.
11/23/2023
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"Bicuspid" by Clemonce Heard
Of course the moment your parents mentally divorce Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 23, 2023 Bicuspid Clemonce Heard Of course the moment your parents mentally divorce a baby gap
11/22/2023
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"The warplanes echoed across the heavens"
November 22, 2023 Mosab Abu Taha “What is home: it is the shade of trees on my way to school before they were uprooted.” Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet and the author of Things You May Find
11/22/2023
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"The Specious Present" by Catherine Barnett
I stared at the tiny xeroxed faces Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 22, 2023 The Specious Present Catherine Barnett I stared at the tiny xeroxed faces we wore like blurry jokes
11/21/2023
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"A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village" by Shelley Wong
She will never return home. Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 21, 2023 A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village Shelley Wong She will never return home. In their first meeting,
11/20/2023
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"What I Was Looking For" by Kathy Fagan
were the unsent letters she'd left me years ago Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 20, 2023 What I Was Looking For Kathy Fagan were the unsent letters she'd left me years
11/19/2023
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"A Vision of the End" by Too-qua-stee
I once beheld the end of time! Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. Your gift today will help the Academy of American Poets continue to publish the work of 260 poets each year,
11/18/2023
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"The Indian’s Awakening" by Zitkála-Šá
I snatch at my eagle plumes and long hair. Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. Your gift today will help the Academy of American Poets continue to publish the work of 260 poets
11/17/2023
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"The Earthlings" by Matthew Olzmann
The Earthlings arrived unannounced, entered Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 17, 2023 The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann The Earthlings arrived unannounced, entered without knocking,
11/17/2023
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"Far Away" by Matt W. Miller
The first cold rains scurry down the gold Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 15, 2023 Far Away Matt W. Miller The first cold rains scurry down the gold tipped September elms. I know
11/17/2023
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"we will find ourselves on deck bowing, curtseying to each other"
November 15, 2023 “In Shiatsu the high seas of pressure points woo him, how touch restores, relieves, cures, resets the knee, a child who sometimes lived in cars, taught himself to play guitar,
11/17/2023
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"Without Reparations" by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
Land slit like a throat, life poured out Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 16, 2023 Without Reparations Lupita Eyde-Tucker “In 2015, the Spanish Parliament [. . .] enacted a law
11/14/2023
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"A Massive Aquarium Holding 1,500 Tropical Fish Bursts" by Sarah Audsley
& each fish feels solid land before its gills Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 14, 2023 A Massive Aquarium Holding 1500 Tropical Fish Bursts Sarah Audsley & each fish
11/13/2023
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"Faith" by SM Stubbs
For centuries, an order of Japanese monks Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 13, 2023 Faith SM Stubbs For centuries, an order of Japanese monks chose one of the elders to deliver
11/12/2023
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"The Bluebird" by Alexander Posey
A winged bit of Indian sky Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. Your gift today will help the Academy of American Poets continue to publish the work of 260 poets each year, and
11/11/2023
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"Fallen Leaves" by Mary Cornelia Hartshorne
Many times in my life I have heard the white sages, Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. Your gift today will help the Academy of American Poets continue to publish the work of
11/10/2023
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"I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house." by Donika Kelly
Nothing today hasn't happened before: Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 10, 2023 I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house. Donika Kelly Nothing today hasn't
11/9/2023
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Poems for Native American Heritage Month, & More
Plus lesson plans and poems for Thanksgiving Facebook Twitter Instagram November 2023 November is Native American Heritage Month. Celebrate with the following poems, and browse more Native American
11/9/2023
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"The Miracle of Giving" by D. A. Powell
Twice Christ took the bread apart Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day November 9, 2023 The Miracle of Giving DA Powell Twice Christ took the bread apart with his human hands that he used for