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Tuesday Poem

TUESDAY, FEB 6, 2024  

BY JIM CULLENY

The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings

I am taken with the hot animal of my skin, grateful to swing my limbs

and have them move as I intend, though my knee, though my shoulder, though something is torn or tearing. Today, a dozen squid, dead

on the harbor beach: one mostly buried, one with skin empty as a shell and hollow

feeling, and, though the tentacles look soft, I do not touch them. I imagine they were startled to find themselves in the sun.

I imagine the tide simply went out without them. I imagine they cannot

feel the black flies charting the raised hills of their eyes. I write my name in the sand: Donika Kelly. I watch eighteen seagulls

skim the sandbar and lift low in the sky. I pick up a pebble that looks like a green egg.

To the ditch lily I say I am in love. To the Jeep parked haphazardly on the narrow street I am in love. To the roses, white

petals rimmed brown, to the yellow lined pavement, to the house trimmed in gold I am

in love. I shout with the rough calculus of walking. Just let me find my way back, let me move like a tide come in.

by Donika Kelly from Academy of American Poets, 11/20/17

#the moon #body alive #Structural integration Atlanta #Donika Kelly #Academy of American Poets

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Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. Read her full bio. here

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set

on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on.

We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape their knees under it.

It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it, we make women.

At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers.

Our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children. They laugh with us at our poor falling-down selves and as we put ourselves back together once again at the table.

This table has been a house in the rain, an umbrella in the sun.

Wars have begun and ended at this table. It is a place to hide in the shadow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory.

We have given birth on this table, and have prepared our parents for burial here.

At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and remorse. We give thanks.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

"Perhaps the World Ends Here" from The Woman Who Fell From the Sky by Joy Harjo. Copyright © 1994 by Joy Harjo.

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(via Divya Victor: "Make/Do")

(Academy of American Poets)

For Jamal Cyrus and Tomás Morin, and all kith who make do to make work

“Do you also make work that isn’t political?”

I mean, do we make work

about where and when we were

raised: the three-whistle corner store

the empty coke bottle trill

the nickname that doesn’t nick us

as we blow through customs

with a toothpick smile

and hell-no eyes, sweet fools

greasing the bike chains

for this day, always saying

someone better fix this street

light? Do we flicker at night

when the kids are sleeping

dim, bright, dim, bright, do we?

Do we, at times, make work

about who breaks the news

to us at breakfast and how the syrup

she’s holding is now trembling, how

she’s beating, beating, beating

what no one can now eat, the mouth

fumbling for what no one

can now say? Do we make it

work with mirrors held

to the bottom of lakes, with combs

pulled through palms, with thumbs

flipping the bills, with two bags

and three names

at the border?

I mean, do we make work

about the road that crackles

with sirens or about Dad’s hydrangeas

which came up again that summer

violet clouds of bruises and pinker

than the Hubba Bubba we were popping

so loud, no one could stand us

but we grinned and grinned because

any air left in us meant

we could still answer

years later

a question like this?

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Find poems about gratitude, family, food, home, and giving thanks for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Classic Poems for Thanksgiving

“Thanksgiving Day” by Lydia Maria Child Over the river, and through the wood... “The Thanksgivings” by Harriet Maxwell Converse We who are here present thank the Great Spirit...

“A Song for Merry Harvest” by Eliza Cook Bring forth the harp, and let us sweep its fullest, loudest string …

“A Thanksgiving Poem” by Paul Laurence Dunbar The sun hath shed its kindly light… “Grace for a Child” by Robert Herrick Here, a little child I stand...

“A Thank-Offering” by Ella Higginson Lord God, the winter has been sweet and brief … “Thanksgiving Turkey” by George Parsons Lathrop Valleys lay in sunny vapor…

“The Harvest Moon” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes... “Thanksgiving” by James Whitcomb Riley Let us be thankful—not only because… “The Pumpkin” by John Greenleaf Whittier Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun... “Thanksgiving” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white…

#poem #poems #poetry #Thanksgiving #poets #Academy of American Poets

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Audre Lorde's signature from her correspondence with the Academy of American Poets [x]

#Audre Lorde #Academy of American Poets

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Let the National Poetry Month Games Begin!

Let the National Poetry Month Games Begin! #AcademyofAmericanPoets #PoetryCommunity #LiteraryCelebration

Image Credit: Academy of American Poets (The 2024 poster features artwork by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Jack Wong and lines from “Blessing the Boats” by beloved poet Lucille Clifton) Celebrated annually in April, National Poetry Month begins today. We take our coalition of poetry enthusiasts to a new level of awareness during our commemoration. The Academy of American Poets…

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Academy of American Poets First Book Award

The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, an award-winning independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid, six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a 15th-century castle in the Umbrian region of Italy, where they will become part of a cohort of accomplished international artists, writers, and composers; distribution of their winning book to thousands of Academy of American Poets members, making it one of the most widely-distributed poetry books that year; inclusion and promotion in American Poets magazine, the Academy’s newsletter, and Poets.org, among other opportunities. 

This award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book. It is currently made possible by financial support from the members of the Academy of American Poets. From 1975–2020, the award was titled in tribute to Walt Whitman.

Submissions for the 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book Award will be accepted from July 1, 2023 to September 1, 2023 (11:59 p.m. Eastern). The judge is Victoria Chang.

Submission guidelines here.

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pub. by Academy of American Poets

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Beautiful creative couple!

Poet Scarlett Sabet and her boyfriend Led Zeppelin Founder Jimmy Page at Academy of Achievement in the Library of Congress-September 9, 2022

Mr. Page is Class of 2017. Here

Poet Scarlett said:

“It was an incredible honour to be invited to give a poetry reading at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C and then talk about creating Catalyst with Jimmy.

 A very special evening. My deep thanks and gratitude to the American Academy of Achievement, the Library of Congress”

Catalyst can be purchased here

Photo: Academy of Achievement

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Celebrating 106 Years of Gwendolyn Brooks

Tomorrow's Authortunities mail out will feature American poet, author, and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks.

Tomorrow’s Authortunities mail out will feature American poet, author, and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks born 106 years ago today on June 7, 1917. She was known for her work that often celebrated and examined the personal struggles of ordinary people in her community​. Brooks was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. Her father wanted to be a doctor but he traded that…

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#A Street in Bronzeville #African American woman #American Academy of Arts and Letters #American literature #American poet #Annie Allen #Chicago #Children Coming Home #David Anderson Brooks #Great Migration #Gwendolyn Brooks #In the Mecca #Keziah Wims Brooks #Maud Martha #Poet Laureate of Illinois #Pulitzer Prize in Poetry #The Bean Eaters #The Chicago Defender #U.S. Poet Laureate

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palestinian poets: hala alyan

poetry has been keeping me going the past week and i thought i'd share some of my favorite pieces by palestinian poets. i was originally going to repost my favorites but just realized that might not be appropriate, so instead i'm going to feature a poet in each post and share my favorite pieces by each.

HALA ALYAN

hala alyan is the author of the novel salt houses, winner of the dayton literary peace prize and the arab american book award, and a finalist for the chautauqua prize. her latest novel, the arsonists’ city, was a finalist for the 2022 aspen words literary prize. she is also the author of four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently the twenty-ninth year. her work has been published by the new yorker, the academy of american poets, lit hub, the new york times book review, and guernica. she lives in brooklyn, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at new york university.

IF YOU READ ONLY ONE PIECE BY HALA ALYAN, MAKE IT THIS ONE

OTHER POEMS I LOVE BY HALA ALYAN

“The Interviewer Wants to Know About Fashion” at lithub

"Interactive: House Saints" at the poetry foundation

"1999" (from her 2019 collection The Twenty-Ninth Year) at lithub

"When They Say Pledge Allegiance, I Say" at the adroit journal

#poetry #hala alyan #free palestine #palestinian poets series