“Our love for poetry makes us look ahead to the young and new generations of poets arising... May we, their audience, help them all we possibly can.”
—Marie Bullock, Academy of American Poets founder
Summer is typically “the” season of the year that is full of outdoor fun, festivities and food! While you’re fitting in some time for a little R&R along with several good ole summertime good reads, we will feature some books of poetry that you can indulge in on those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer.
The Academy of American Poets publishes a journal called American Poets that provides a panorama of the contemporary poetic landscape, featuring writing by America’s most talented poets. The Spring-Summer 2014 edition of American Poets includes several articles, impressive poetry and features on Chris Hosea, 2013 Walt Whitman Award Winner; Patricia Smith, 2013 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Winner; Carolyn Forché, 2013 Academy Fellowship Winner; Philip Levine, 2013 Wallace Stevens Award Winner; and new Chancellors who will act as ambassadors of poetry, selected by the members of the Academy’s Board of Chancellors. These new members will serve for a period of 6 years.
The Academy of American Poets is celebrating their 80th Anniversary. Marie Bullock founded the Academy of American Poets in New York City 80 years ago. She was passionate about poets in the United States, and believed that they deserved to be supported and celebrated. American Poets is published annually in April and October and comes with a year’s subscription when you become a member of The Academy of American Poets. To dazzle your daily poetry addiction, poets.org offers Poem-a-Day, that you can receive in your inbox daily once you sign-up.
Jennifer Benka, Executive Director for The Academy of American Poets notes, "On the occasion of our eightieth anniversary this year, we are renewing our commitment to the multitude of artists who provide us with the words that help us understand our lives, history, and location in the world; who imagine language; who offer a distillation of truth we can hold like a mantra in our minds; who move us beyond the noise of the everyday, closer to our humanity; who write memorable and lasting lines - American poets."
For more information about the Academy of American Poets, membership, special events and other poetry related activities, visit www.poets.org.
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