National Poetry Month - Academy of American Poets
2024年4月30日 · National Poetry Month. Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers ...
Poetry Near You - Academy of American Poets
New York, NY. 11/22/2024. Brooklyn Poets Friday Night Open: Christian J. Collier & Joan Kwon Glass. Brooklyn, NY. 11/24/2024. The Academy of American Poets Celebrates 90 Years of Poetry at the Miami Book Fair. Miami, FL. 12/04/2024. Other Countries, Black Queer Expression, 2024 Winter Solstice Reading.
Recovering Etheridge Knight | Academy of American Poets
2024年1月1日 · The American poet William Stafford once remarked that Etheridge Knight “dives into experience and comes back—to our benefit—with a poem.”. It is indeed to our benefit that Knight comes back. Is brought back. Recovered. Recovering Etheridge Knight - Most poets who never met Etheridge Knight consider him one of the most influential poets ...
Introduction to extracts from “Ramakien” - Academy of American …
2024年5月20日 · Ramakien is the Thai-language rendition of the Indic tale of Rama, a god born into a royal family and tasked with upholding moral virtue. The frame story of abduction and battle is modeled on the Indian Ramayana by the poet Valmiki, but there are many differences in tone and character. These extracts are from the version completed in 1798 at the court of King …
The Academy of American Poets Announces 2024 Winners of the …
New York, NY (October 18, 2024)— NAOMI SHIHAB NYE is the recipient of the WALLACE STEVENS AWARD, which is given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.The award carries a stipend of $100,000. EVIE SHOCKLEY is the recipient of the ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS FELLOWSHIP.This prize recognizes distinguished poetic …
The Academy of American Poets Is Awarded Historic $5.7+ Million …
New York, NY (January 31, 2024)—The Academy of American Poets, a leading champion of poets and poetry in the United States, has received its largest philanthropic award ever to support the work that civic poets undertake across communities and to help sustain literary ecosystems that are committed to collaboration, inclusivity, and diversity.. These two grants from the …
Teach This Poem: “Bats” by Paisley Rekdal - Academy of American …
2024年10月21日 · They drink fruit dry. And wheel, against feverish light flung hard. upon their faces, in circles that nauseate. Imagine one at breast or neck, Patterning a name in driblets of iodine. that spatter your skin stars. They flutter, shake like mystics. They materialize.
Beans by Mary Oliver - Poems | Academy of American Poets
2024年9月10日 · Beans - They’re not like peaches or squash. Plumpness isn’t for them. They like being lean, as if for the narrow path. The beans themselves sit qui- etly inside their green pods. In- stinctively one picks with care, never tearing down the fine vine, never noticing their crisp bod- ies, or feeling their willingness for the pot, for the fire.
Dear Reader—Reaching Toward Community in a Time of Winter
2024年11月14日 · Dear reader, I am writing to you because I miss you. Because I want to give you a piece of myself to hold. Because when you write back, I will be able to hold a piece of you too. Your letter will carry the scent of your house, the sound of your voice.
Legacy by Ted Kooser - Poems | Academy of American Poets
2024年11月13日 · Legacy. I have spent seventy years trying to persuade you, to manipulate you with the poems I’ve written, to remember my people as if they’d been yours—. to flesh out in evocative detail my parents, my grandparents, cousins, uncles and aunts—. knowing that one day I’ll be gone, and without me. to remember them, the poems I’ve written.