A lonely day leads to a college poetry prize

The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.

Thought of the day by Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.” — why ...

Thought of the day by Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.” — Over 1,800 poems. One timeless ...
Mississippi State University

Academy of American Poets selects Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce for fellowship

STARKVILLE—Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce adds another accolade to her distinguished list of honors this month with her selection as a Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American ...
AFRO American Newspapers

Racial healing finds new voice in community poets

Discover how poets like Kelvin 'KJ' Marshall and Margie 'Mia X' Johnson are using verse to foster racial healing and build ...
CBS News

San Francisco's 1st Chinese-American poet laureate shines light on Asian-American experience

At her inauguration as the city's poet laureate, Genny Lim recites from her poem, "I am American." "I am American. We live, love, work, sleep and breathe In this Babylon of 48 hills..." she begins. As ...
WGBH

Who was Phillis Wheatley, the first African American poet to publish a book?

In 1761, a young girl crossed the Atlantic on a slave ship. Captured in West Africa and transported to Boston, where she was enslaved by John and Susanna Wheatley. They named her Phillis, after the ...
Yahoo

Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah receives $100,000 prize

NEW YORK (AP) — Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers. Joudah is this ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Minding my people’s business’: An acclaimed Sudanese American poet makes a home in L.A.

If you search “Safia Elhillo” on YouTube, the first entry you’ll see is a video from 2016: a reading of her visceral, mesmerizing poem cycle “Alien Suite” at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam ...
Columbus Dispatch

First Native poet laureate Joy Harjo uses words to show humanity and importance of genre

Her ancestors were part of the forced Native American migration to Oklahoma. Her father, a womanizer, abandoned the family. Her stepfather physically and mentally abused her — without interference ...
Time

Books: American Poet

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (318 pp.)—Ellsworth Barnard—Macmillan ($4.75). Six months after her son’s birth in December 1869, Mrs. Robinson of Head Tide, Me. had not got around to naming the baby, her ...
The Atlantic

A Great American Poet

A GREAT American poet! I had at last found him. It mattered not that I was an obscure student in a famous graduate school; it mattered not that great poets in their day had bowed down to Denham and to ...
The Gazette

'A true American cultural art form': Cowboy poet reflects on life in the West

GOLDEN • Terry Nash approaches the stage, a yellow bandana fastened around his neck, cowboy hat secured on his head and microphone in hand. On his hip, a leather phone case stamped with his family’s ...