In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Noʻu Revilla discusses her curatorial approach and her own creative work. No‘u Revilla: ...
Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
The following activities and questions are designed to help your students use their noticing skills to move through the poem and develop their thinking skills so they understand its meaning with ...
Alison C. Rollins is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Her awards include the 2018 Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, the 2020 ...
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New York Arab Festival and Poetry Project are pleased to announce their first partnership, coming together to honor Arab American Heritage Month, a yearly month celebrated each April. Recognizing the ...
Aaron Tyler Hand is a poet and earned his MFA from Texas State University. He lives in Portland, Oregon.