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 ...

Like your favorite toy that’s missing an arm. Love can make you feel used. I want the poem that limps back to me. Poems should hurt like love, like ice water on your teeth like a massage to smooth out ...

in private when a prima did them first? If so, I’ve had lots and lots of practice. I started by brushing my hair on the bus, Two-year-old hair on a twelve-year-old head. With a cunty something tailing ...