Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Poets! Towers of God! ” by Rubén Darío, translated by Thomas Walsh and Salomón de ...

“Crow” from Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes, © 1981. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, ...

Idra Novey is the author of several novels and poetry collections, including Soon & Wholly (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Exit, Civilian (University of Georgia Press, 2012), selected for the ...

Jazz June. We Die soon.

Poetry is for everyone at the 20th Dodge Poetry Festival. On October 17, the Academy of American Poets will present three panels on poetry’s ability to invite reflection and creative reawakening, ...

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer Caribbean poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press, 2020); coeditor of ...

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'Weep! weep! weep! weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, ...

Now, during his Guest Editor Q&A in January 2022, Joseph O. Legaspi described how you infuse what he called “nonpolitical elements” into your work, including recipes and menus, particularly in Loves ...

New York, NY (September 26, 2024)—The Academy of American Poets, a leading champion of poets and poetry in the United States, is pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the LENORE MARSHALL POETRY ...

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Poets.org: What was it like being a Chancellor? Naomi Shihab Nye: Being a Chancellor was one of the best things that happened in my life. To be in that very esteemed company of poets, a changing group ...

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award will be judged by Roger Sedarat and the 2025 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize will be judged by Anna Kraczyna, Jennifer ...