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 ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers. Joudah is this ...

Given the brutish activity of masked federal, armed immigration agents in many of our cities — their disregard for the rule of law, process, and human dignity — and given ...

At her inauguration as the city's poet laureate, Genny Lim recites from her poem, "I am American." "I am American. We live, love, work, sleep and breathe In this Babylon of 48 hills..." she begins. As ...

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (318 pp.)—Ellsworth Barnard—Macmillan ($4.75). Six months after her son’s birth in December 1869, Mrs. Robinson of Head Tide, Me. had not got around to naming the baby, her ...

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 ...

The Dorothy Patterson Poetry Series at West Texas A&M University will feature award-winning poet Terrance Hayes in a public poetry reading in February.

I am deeply drawn to poetry by women. This rich tradition juxtaposes the individual with the collective and elevates accessible language to craft the spoken-song that is poetry. So, imagine my delight ...