Haleh Liza Gafori is an Iranian American translator, poet, performance artist, and composer born in New York City. Her book ...

And all that remains for me is to follow a violet darkness on soil where myths splinter and crack. Yes, love was time, and it too splintered and cracked like the face of our country.

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ The Lonely Street ” by William Carlos Williams. What do you notice about the poem?

The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations, is pleased to present its fourth cohort of the Poetry Coalition Fellowship program. These six individuals have been selected to receive ...

Some things are better off unnamed? I can’t help but reason with your ash. Names become the first steppings into ruin, yes? Name a thing, and you’ve marked it for the end, of Imagination? And unless ...

Nicolás Heredia y Mota, a poet, novelist, journalist, literary critic, and revolutionary, was born in Baní, Santo Domingo ...

The dog  wants to trust, you can see it  in her eyes, like that part in the music  where it still sounds like snow  used to.

Spanish by JD Pluecker 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 ...

Edgar L. Peguero y Heredia was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1969 to immigrant parents from Bani, Dominican Republic. He is an amateur genealogist and historian who offers lectures at local schools ...

Copyright © 2024 by Ekaterina Derysheva, Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M. F. Platt. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 16, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.

To further support the Academy's efforts, get tickets to a special benefit reception preceding the reading, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET. Reception tickets include admission to the reading. Presented by ...

Hildegarde Flanner, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 3, 1899, was a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her poetry collections include At the Gentle Mercy of Plants: Essays and Poems (John Daniel & ...