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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alice Duer Miller was born on July 28, 1874, in Staten Island, New York. Her work was influential to women’s suffrage, and her satirical poetry collection, Are Women People? (1915), became a slogan ...

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: ...

above a black lake and she lies flat. I now replace intensity with meaning. One is a black hole of boundless appetite, a false womb, another is a sentence. My therapist says children need a “father” ...

Adrian Matejka is the author of The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), which was nominated for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Noor Hindi is a Palestinian poet and the author of Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. (Haymarket Books, 2022). She is the recipient of a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship ...

Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: "If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please ...

Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when ...

Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those two ...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all ...