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Sunset at Luquillo wetlands / Brings the biting flies ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ When the Burning Begins ” by Patricia Smith. What do you notice about the poem?

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ finding tomorrow ” by m.s. RedCherries. What do you notice about the poem? Note ...

In the shadows of city lights, we dwelled, untold stories, almas olvidadas, enduring streets where dreams were bought and sold.

Established in New York City in 1986 in response to the under-representation of Black gay stories, essays, biographies, and dramatic writing in LGBT literature, Other Countries is a Black queer men's ...

Transcendental poses are fractured by migration / In Rafael Soriano’s chimeras ...

Born in 1938, Ishmael Reed is the author of many collections of poems and essays, as well as several novels, and he is also well known for his contributions to jazz and blues music, as both a lyricist ...

In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Victor ...

As if some little Arctic flower” was originally written in 1890 by Emily Dickinson. The poem would later be published in The ...

A Cry from an Indian Wife” originally appeared in Emily Pauline Johnson’s first volume of poetry, The White Wampum, which was published in 1895 in Boston, London, and Toronto by Lamson, Wolffe and ...

Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. To make you feel better about who we truly are. Because honestly there’s nothing good about any of us. See from the ...