Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ The Lonely Street ” by William Carlos Williams. What do you notice about the poem?

Haleh Liza Gafori is an Iranian American translator, poet, performance artist, and composer born in New York City. Her book ...

The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations, is pleased to present its fourth cohort of the Poetry Coalition Fellowship program. These six individuals have been selected to receive ...

And all that remains for me is to follow a violet darkness on soil where myths splinter and crack. Yes, love was time, and it too splintered and cracked like the face of our country.

Some things are better off unnamed? I can’t help but reason with your ash. Names become the first steppings into ruin, yes? Name a thing, and you’ve marked it for the end, of Imagination? And unless ...

Nicolás Heredia y Mota, a poet, novelist, journalist, literary critic, and revolutionary, was born in Baní, Santo Domingo ...

The dog  wants to trust, you can see it  in her eyes, like that part in the music  where it still sounds like snow  used to.

Edgar L. Peguero y Heredia was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1969 to immigrant parents from Bani, Dominican Republic. He is an amateur genealogist and historian who offers lectures at local schools ...

Copyright © 2024 by Ekaterina Derysheva, Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M. F. Platt. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 16, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.

Meg Day grew up in California’s Bay Area and received a BA from the University of California, San Diego, an MFA from Mills College, and a PhD from the University of Utah, where Day was a ...

To further support the Academy's efforts, get tickets to a special benefit reception preceding the reading, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET. Reception tickets include admission to the reading. Presented by ...

In celebration of their 21st year of operation and their growing community of authors in the NYC area, Broadstone Books invites you to join them for a marathon reading by 35 authors beginning at 1pm ...