Transcendental poses are fractured by migration / In Rafael Soriano’s chimeras ...

Born in 1938, Ishmael Reed is the author of many collections of poems and essays, as well as several novels, and he is also ...

In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Victor ...

“The Yellow Corn” appears in Poems by Charles G. Eastman (Eastman & Danforth, 1848).

Copyright © 2024 by Emily Pauline Johnson. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 30, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.

As if some little Arctic flower” was originally written in 1890 by Emily Dickinson. The poem would later be published in The ...

Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southwestern Arizona, was born in Arizona in 1952. She received a BA, ...

Delayza puts her hand in mine. The seated crowd hinders her view. I lift her above the masses— a butterfly beyond reach. Her irises bloom to the choir and drumbeats rumbling nearby snowflakes. I set ...

Featuring over 90 artworks to be presented in the museum’s iconic rotunda, this major exhibition will examine the vibrant abstract art of Orphism. It will explore the transnational movement’s ...

You don’t have to teach people how to be creative. In fact, I’d argue that creativity, at its root, is not teachable. It is a survival instinct, and maybe even, the first one we have as we become ...

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is the author of WATCHNIGHT (Nightboat Books, 2024), the recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ 2023 James Laughlin Award, and SLINGSHOT (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of ...

Lupe Mendez is the author of Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), which won the 2019 John A. Robertson Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. An educator, curriculum writer and literary ...