One river gives Its journey to the next. We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us.

The Academy of American Poets presents poetry lesson plans, most of which align with Common Core State Standards, and all of which have been reviewed by our Educator in Residence with an eye toward ...

I cannot draw a line beyond your names, back through the brindled understory along Pīnaʻau stream, ma uka. This cord has gone as far as it can go for now, anchored to the pōhaku there, baking his ...

The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we ...

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: ...

“I wrote this poem while serving as the artist in residence for Homestead National Historical Park. Only one to four percent of tallgrass prairie remains today, one hundred acres of which the park ...

Thank you for joining us for Poetry & the Creative Mind—poetry’s biggest night in! This signature reading and fundraiser was the closing celebration of National Poetry Month on the Academy’s ninetieth ...

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 ...

Search more than 3,000 biographies of contemporary and classic poets.

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 ...