Enough alphabet for a torah
sits on the tongue. And all shards
from the winds' end gather again.

—Mary Rose O'Reilley

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We want to thank the following 2024 #NationalPoetryMonth sponsors who help make possible the largest literary celebration in the world: Poets & Writers, Power Poetry, Rain Taxi, & Sarabande Books.

The lawlessness of wealth-protecting laws
That let the children and childbearers toil
To purchase ease for idle millionaires.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Read today's #PoemADay : “Breve Pausa” by Martín Espada
Martín Espada

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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

—William Shakespeare, born #OTD in 1564

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You better than me, you kinder and so blistering with anger, you are who I love, standing in the wind, salvaging the umbrellas, graduating from school, wearing holes in your shoes

—Aracelis Girmay

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Listen to Martín Espada read “Breve Pausa”
#PoemADay

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“Juan Antonio Corretjer was a major poet and advocate for independence in Puerto Rico. [. . .] His wife, Consuelo Lee Tapia, was also a writer and activist for independence.”

—Martín Espada
Martín Espada
#AboutThisPoem

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;

—William Shakespeare, born #OTD in 1564

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In the photograph, the poet leans over to kiss his wife. He wears a black
suit and a black tie, as if there will be a ceremony and a medallion hung
around his neck.

––Martín Espada
Martín Espada
#PoemADay

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From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him,

—William Shakespeare, born #OTD in 1564

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“Still, I open my eyes
to the husk of morning,
draw my name in the sand”

—Ariel Francisco
Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹

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#EarthDay

We want to thank the following 2024 #NationalPoetryMonth sponsors who help make possible the largest literary celebration in the world: O, Miami Poetry Fest, Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚, Persea Books, & Poetry Foundation.

“But here I am, in a winter
of the mind, surrounded by surplus capital, an excess

of heat, which lifts green things from their beds.”

—John James

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#EarthDay

“It’s the eternal problem, isn’t it,
how ego blossoms in paraphrase, propagates our deep, deciduous need

to seed the severed world of object-things with our image?”

—J.P. Grasser
J.P. Grasser

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#EarthDay

Read today's #PoemADay : “Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC” by Aaron Tyler Hand read
Aaron Tyler Hand

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“I knew what was coming. We all did. Forgive us:
we were entwined, we were betwixt, time was not yet bent.
I was unable to resist tipping my head back to catch those petals”

—Nickole Brown
nickolebrown

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#EarthDay

We had a grief
we didn’t understand while
          standing at the edge of
    some low scrub hills as if
humans were extra
    or already gone;—

—Brenda Hillman, former Academy Chancellor

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#EarthDay

The James Laughlin Award recognizes a poet’s 2nd book forthcoming in 2025. The winning poet will receive $5k, a 7-day residency at The Betsy Hotel & distribution of the winning book to Academy members. Deadline: 5/15.

Publishers may apply here: poets.org/academy-americ…