Academy of American Poets
Home | View Cart | Log In 
Subscribe | More Info 
Find a Poet or Poem
Advanced Search >

POETS.ORG FAVORITES

Celebrate the Season with Poetry:

Great Poems to Teach: Find popular poems to recite, as well as favorite examples of imagery, form, narrative, and irony.

Resources for Teens: Browse the poems and pages teens like best.
SUPPORT POETS.ORG
 


FROM THE POETRY STORE

New in the Store:
Leaves of Grass Onesie

Perfect for every literary child you know, this top quality American Apparel onesie is inspired by Whitman's famous poem, "A child said, What is the grass?"—only available on Poets.org. Learn more >
Browse the Poetry Store >

WEEKLY FEATURE



Human Seraphim: "Howl," Sex, and Holiness
by Mark Doty
"It seems as if America's willful denial of queer sexuality might simply have crumbled in the face of it, and that a generation of gay men might have taken it as a clarion call to freedom..."
Repeating Allen
by Eileen Myles
"I think the poetry world (something that probably shouldn't exist) is ever more cursed with public events that ask is poetry political, relevant, over, commercial, popular, etc. because in this poem it was all those things at once..."

DAILY POETRY

Poem-A-Day
Oct 27 from Tanka Diary
by Harryette Mullen
Don't need picket fences, brick wall

THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS

Spotlight Poet
A. R. Ammons
the poet Richard Howard has said, "Ammons is our Lucretius, swerving and sideswiping his way into the nature of things, through domestic doldrums, cardinals and quince bushes, fields of sidereal force, out into what he so accurately calls 'joy's surviving radiance.'"

Spotlight Audio
The Death of Ignatz
by Monica Youn
audioplayer

Spotlight Essay
Free Bloody Birds?: Frank Bidart, Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney
by Tom Sleigh
"Devotional poetry is rare nowadays, especially if it springs from traditional religious faith. For Philip Larkin, it came off as old-fashioned guilt, a cultural relic which the lucky younger generation dismisses with a shrug..."

Spotlight Notebook
Max Nix
Selected by Ted Mallory

An ever-expanding collection of favorite poems—including work by Robert Bly, Nikki Giovanni, Andrew Marvell, Shel Silverstein, among others.
Browse all notebooks >
Facebook      Newsletters
Twitter RSS Feeds
Stumble Poem Flow
Digg Flickr
 Poets Forum:
30 Poets. All Poetry.
October 28-30
New York, NY
Search the National Poetry Calendar or submit events near you.

The Academy of American Poets meets all 20 Better Business Bureau charity standards. Learn more >

Donate Now >
Larger TypeLarger Type | Home | Help | Contact Us | Privacy Policy Copyright © 1997 - 2010 by Academy of American Poets.