You air that serves me with breath to speak! You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape! You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers! You paths worn in ...

“Queerness is a gift, but larger society often upholds normativity or being straight or ‘normal’ as a false standard. This poem affirms nonnormativity. Through intimacy and metaphor, queerness, ...

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 ...

What is National Poetry Month? National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary ...

Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. You foolish men who lay the guilt on women, not seeing you’re the cause of the very thing you blame; if you invite ...

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, ...

They lashed him halfway up the mast And he screamed above the silent oarsmen As they rowed him relentlessly away From the bone-cluttered island shore of the Sirens Sitting in the flowers singing ...

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 ...