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 ...

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, ...

Jazz June. We Die soon.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...