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.

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 ...

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: ...

above a black lake and she lies flat. I now replace intensity with meaning. One is a black hole of boundless appetite, a false womb, another is a sentence. My therapist says children need a “father” ...

The Annual Tennessee Poets Day (Est. 2017) is an Annual “All Day POETRY” Events organized by Poets From the Neighborhood (PFTN) to Celebrate the National Poetry Month, as one of PFTN’s community ...

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.

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 ...

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new Guest Editors to each curate a month of Poem-a-Day, the original and only daily poetry series sharing previously unpublished poems by ...

Noor Hindi is a Palestinian poet and the author of Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. (Haymarket Books, 2022). She is the recipient of a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship ...

Born in 1861, Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. I am here to sing thee songs. In this hall of thine I have a corner seat. In thy world I have no work to do; my ...

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 ...