Academy of American Poets1 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 Poets1 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 Poets1 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 Poets9 天
Speech on the Body
Let’s say something about distances that escape through the body. About what the body needs to say as its joints go silent. Let’s say the body needs to remain quiet to say something about distances.
Academy of American Poets9 天
September 2024 Poem-a-Day Guest Editor Sawako Nakayasu
In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Sawako Nakayasu discusses her curatorial approach and her own creative work. Sawako ...
Academy of American Poets9 天
The Blue-Green Stream
Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River, I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream, Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings, We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred ...
Academy of American Poets10 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 Poets13 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 Poets13 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 Poets14 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, ...