For Earth Day, which is today, April 22, the Academy of American Poets announces the winners of the 2024 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, which honors exceptional poems that help readers recognize ...

In honor of Earth Day, we invited four poets to collaborate on a new poem that conveys our interconnected struggle for environmental justice. The collaborative poem is inspired by Cecilia Vicuña's ...

Monica Youn grew up in Houston, Texas. She received a BA from Princeton University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MPhil from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

so the neon green spatter and jagged streak glowed, brighter than before, as though a spirit glad to have finally escaped its body.

“Having written extensively about war and its human consequences, I have always been alert to the temptations of appropriation, voyeurism, and a too easy assumption of ethical authority. ‘Public ...

Participant Guide: All styles of poetry welcome! Poems must be original. Recite poems from memory or read from the page. Each poem should be a maximum of three minutes. There is no minimum time.

Consider the dazzling odds: Out of the billions upon billions of possible combinations, a planet whose sole satellite is exactly 400 times smaller than its star and exactly 400 times closer, so that ...

What we all want from writing is to be heard, to be seen as more than our jobs or our labor and as the human beings that poetry makes us. “Juan Antonio Corretjer was a major poet and advocate for ...

Alice Duer Miller was born on July 28, 1874, in Staten Island, New York. Her work was influential to women’s suffrage, and her satirical poetry collection, Are Women People? (1915), became a slogan ...

Adrian Matejka is the author of The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), which was nominated for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Since 2018, the Academy of American Poets has invited twelve new Guest Editors to each curate a month of Poem-a-Day, the original and only daily poetry series sharing previously unpublished poems by ...

Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant ...