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2 days ago · Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews.
2 days ago · Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.
1 day ago · Extract. In the nineteenth century, the term “poetess” was typically a conventional compliment to, or acknowledgement of, any female poet's femininity. During the twentieth century it became more often a label of contempt and condescension. In the twenty-first century, the word “poetess” has taken on an objective literary meaning for ...
4 days ago · A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring thousands of poems by some of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
4 days ago · American poet and novelist, Sylvia Plath, was walking in the woods one day when she sees a mushroom. She then writes this fabulous poem that has so much deep meaning. New explains the poem for us.
5 days ago · Plus: Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympian, Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing, new poetry from Ange Mlinko, and more
1 day ago · Massachusetts poet Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful" after seeing the landscape from the top of Pike's Peak. Her patriotic anthem is a prayer for national unity.
