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WEBNew York, NY (September 9, 2024)—The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations, is pleased to present its fourth cohort of the Poetry Coalition Fellowship program. New York, NY (August 29, 2024)—The Academy of American Poets announced today that J. Drew Lanham, poet and MacArthur Fellow, and Dr. T.
If— by Rudyard Kipling - Poems | Academy of American Poets
WEBIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poems - Academy of …
WEBOzymandias - I met a traveller from an antique land. 49 Go thou to Rome,—at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green …
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll - Poems - Academy of American Poets
WEBHe chortled in his joy. And the mome raths outgrabe. This poem is in the public domain. Jabberwocky - ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The ...
About Emily Dickinson - Academy of American Poets
WEBEmily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890.
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Invictus by William Ernest Henley - Academy of American Poets
WEBWilliam Ernest Henley, born August 23, 1849, was an influential British poet, perhaps best known for his poem “Invictus” (1875). He is the author of A Song of Speed (D. Nutt, 1903), Hawthorn & Lavender with Other Verses (D. Nutt, 1901), and For England’s Sake: Verses and Songs in Time of War (D. Nutt, 1900), among others.He died in Woking, England, …
Sonnet - Academy of American Poets
WEBThe sonnet is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries. Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization. The name is taken from the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song.”.
The Star-Spangled Banner - Academy of American Poets
WEBNow it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream; ’Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave. O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion. A home and a country should ...