Academy of American Poets1 天
We Real Cool
Jazz June. We Die soon.
Academy of American Poets2 天
Teach This Poem: “Crow” by Lorna Dee Cervantes
“Crow” from Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes, © 1981. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, ...
Academy of American Poets2 天
Teach This Poem: “Poets! Towers of God!” by Rubén Darío, translated by Thomas Walsh ...
Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Poets! Towers of God! ” by Rubén Darío, translated by Thomas Walsh and Salomón de ...
Academy of American Poets2 天
Value City
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 ...
Academy of American Poets5 天
The Poetry Circus
The Poetry Circus is a free event for all ages. It will include Merry-Go-Round Rides, Poetry readings by over 40 well known poets, tables housing several Los Angeles publishers and literary ...
Academy of American Poets8 天
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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 ...
Academy of American Poets11 天
English Lit. 1st year
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, ...
Academy of American Poets14 天
2024 Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
lifted and levitated what we had lost: that which lingers unanswered in our minds that which makes us wonder if there is worth in the cost of carrying the weight of ourselves and others on frail ...
Academy of American Poets14 天
From “Simple Verses”
A sincere man am I Born where the palm trees grow, And l long before I die My soul’s verses to bestow. No boundaries bind my heart I belong to every land: I am art among art, A peak among peaks I ...
Academy of American Poets14 天
From “Mojave Ghost” [In the city, a weather of zeros-and-ones]
Forrest Gander is the author of several poetry collections, including Be With (New Directions, 2018), winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He currently serves on the Board of Chancellors of ...
Academy of American Poets15 天
From “Mojave Ghost” [She wasn’t fixed, necessarily, on happiness]
She wasn’t fixed, necessarily, on happiness which she couldn’t, in any case, distinguish from luck. What she wanted was to flourish. Happiness, she said once, is for amateurs. He spoke earnestly, ...
Academy of American Poets15 天
On the Three Forms of Water
Ever since I learned about sea-level rise I’ve been binge-watching the Atlantic Ocean but nothing ever really happens. It goes up, it goes down. Sometimes high tide floods a section of the city, which ...