POETRY EVENT - NYC

Poets Forum Kicks Off This Thursday   Join us Thursday evening for a reading by the Academy of American Poets Chancellors, including Elizabeth Alexander, Claudia Rankine, and U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. Buy your tickets here.

Read a selection of poems by our fifteen esteemed Chancellors, who will join us in New York City. “Blues” by Elizabeth Alexander “Love Story in Black and White” by Toi Derricotte “This Your Home Now” by Mark Doty “Narrow Flame” by Linda Gregerson “Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema” by Juan Felipe Herrera “Mosquito” by Jane Hirshfield “Before” by Khaled Mattawa “The House on Moscow Street” by Marilyn Nelson “Next Time Ask More Questions” by Naomi Shihab Nye “Insomnia” by Alicia Ostriker “from Citizen, IV” by Claudia Rankine “The Cities Inside Us” by Alberto Ríos “Morning Antlers” by Arthur Sze “Alphabet of Mother Language” by Anne Waldman “Imaginary June” by C. D. Wright   Eileen Myles & Solmaz Sharif: A Conversation Across Generations   Read an exclusive interview between poets Solmaz Sharif and Eileen Myles, whose latest book I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems1975–2014 (Ecco) is just out.  Listen to Eileen Myles read her poem “Joan” about Joan of Arc. Read James Wright's famous poem for fall "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio." Read Stanza for updates about new essays, poems, and more on Poets.org. Submit to the Walt Whitman Award   The winner of the Walt Whitman Award receives $5,000, publication by Graywolf Press, an all-expenses-paid, six-week residency at theCivitella Ranieri Center in Italy, and distribution of the winning book to thousands of Academy members.Submit your manuscript through November 1. Carolyn Forché will judge.