Academy of American Poets10 天
Christmas on the Border, 1929
I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...
Academy of American Poets5 年
LGBTQ Poetry
Explore the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. For more essays, video, and ephemera, check out our Pride Month ...
Academy of American Poets5 年
The Lotos-Eaters
⁠‘Courage!’ he said, and pointed toward the land, ⁠‘This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.’ ⁠In the afternoon they came unto a land ⁠In which it seemed always afternoon. ⁠All round the coast ...
Academy of American Poets5 年
Poems for the New Year
Find poems to read and share for New Year's, including poems about New Year's Eve, the old year, beginnings, January, and more. Classic Poems for the New Year “A Song for New Year's Eve” by William ...
Academy of American Poets3 天
2020 A Year to Forget
Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...
Academy of American Poets14 天
Myrna Nieves
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Academy of American Poets5 年
R.I.P., My Love
Let us be apart then like the panoptical chambers in IC patient X and patient Y, our names magic markered hurriedly on cardboard and taped pell-mell to the sliding glass doors, "Mary", "Donald", "Tory ...
Academy of American Poets8 天
Poem-a-Day
“I’ve always contemplated the human condition. Why it is that our species can be so ruinous to other life forms, to each other, and to the only home we have—Earth. I wonder why many of us are so ...
Academy of American Poets5 年
Irving Feldman
Born on September 22, 1928, Irving Feldman was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated at the City College of New York (now City College of the City University of New York) and at Columbia ...
Academy of American Poets2 年
The Power of the Dog
To risk your heart for a dog to tear. When the fourteen years which Nature permits But… you’ve given your heart to a dog to tear. When the body that lived at your single will, With its whimper of ...
Academy of American Poets6 个月
The Creation
And the darkness rolled up on one side, And the light stood shining on the other, And God said: That's good! Then God reached out and took the light in his hands, And God rolled the light around in ...
Academy of American Poets10 个月
United States Poet Laureate
The new poet laureate of the United States is Ada Limón. The poet laureate of the United States is appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress. Over the course of the one-year term, which lasts ...