Graduation and Beyond: Independent Study

After an inspiring National Poetry Month full of new work from many of today's poets, May and the end of the academic year bring an opportunity to continue a personal and lasting engagement with poetry. In the spirit of lifelong learning, below you'll find resources that we hope will expand your poetic horizons. Poems for Graduation   If-- by Rudyard Kipling Carpe Diem by Robert Frost Dreams by Langston Hughes Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire it was a dream by Lucille Clifton You Can't Have It All  by Barbara Ras Nothing Twice  by Wislawa Szymborska My Life has been the poem I would have writ  by Henry David Thoreau O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman A Psalm of Life by Henry                                              Wadsworth Longfellow Summer Reading   Start your summer off with new poetry from John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Clark Coolidge, Juan Felipe Herrera, Susan Wheeler, and others. Take these ten titles with you to the beach or wherever you find yourself spending the summer months.  The Craft of Poetry: Featured Syllabi   As another academic year comes to a close, we asked five poets to share their creative writing and literature syllabi with us. Take a look at what Camille Dungy, Elaine Equi, Dawn Lundy Martin, Ronald Wallace, and Matthew Zapruder have been teaching, and design your own summer poetry course around what interests you.      Tell a Friend: Forward this email to a teacher now! Video Spotlight:  W. S. Merwin, "Learning Your Own Language"   Former Academy of American Poets Chancellor, W. S. Merwin, talks about meeting Ezra Pound, a poet's life outside of academia, and how reading and writing poetry informs how we live. This month, the Library of America will publish the two volume set The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin.   Like us on Facebook  Follow us on Twitter  Join us on Tumblr  From our Sponsors:    Featured Poetry Gift:   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. Mark Doty photograph © Star Black.  W. S. Merwin video still taken from  The Poet's View, directed by Mel Brooks.

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