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.

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

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new Guest Editors to each curate a month of Poem-a-Day, the original and only daily poetry series sharing previously unpublished poems by ...

As the Pome: I could ask my petaled voice to cup its first and last notes against the hive’s collapse. As the Pome: I could ask my scent to bud in the noses of passersby, could get a heart or two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poetry at the Point invites local and regional poets, both established and up-and-coming, for monthly readings on the 4th Tuesday of the month. Traditionally held at Focal Point in Maplewood, the 2020 ...