The Chronicle of Higher Education

Internationalizing American Poetry?

The announcement that Paul Muldoon will be the next poetry editor of The New Yorker provoked Ted Genoways, editor of VQR, to to call out American poets (in a friendly way): “The Irish-born Muldoon ...
Yahoo

The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...
The Christian Century

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (5 volumes)

This encyclopedia provides a surprisingly complete collection of entries on American poetry and poets from the early colonial to the contemporary era. Included are both major and lesser-known poets ...
NPR

The Academy of American Poets names its first Latino head

For the first time, the Academy of American Poets will be led by a Latino: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado. Maldonado, currently the co-director of the 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City, will ...
Yahoo

National Poetry Day: Famous poets and authors from Massachusetts

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a ...
NPR

Academy of American Poets receives its largest-ever donation

Writers all over the United States get support from The Academy of American Poets. Its programming, which includes classroom materials and public readings, reaches millions of Americans. In 2020, the ...
PBS

First Latino head of Academy of American Poets on bringing poetry to more people

An editing error in the headline inverted the name of the organization Academy of American Poets. The headline has since been updated. Founded in 1934, the Academy of ...
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 ...
Miami University

Academy of American Poets Prize

Miami University offers two prestigious Academy of American Poets prizes of $100 each for an undergraduate and a graduate student: the Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize (undergraduate) and the Betty ...
Mississippi State University

State’s Poet Laureate to host Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival next week at MSU

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce will host the Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival, a culmination of her statewide K-12 poetry-writing initiative and competition My ...