Exciting News About the James Laughlin Award and More

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend January 8, 2015 Ring in the True   Start 2015 off right by reading our selection of poems for the New Year.   “The Year’s Awakening” by Thomas Hardy “In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]” by Lord Alfred Tennyson “New years’ morning” by Carl Adamshick “The Year” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox “Theories of Time and Space” by Natasha Trethewey “Aspiration” by Henrietta Cordelia Ray “If—” by Rudyard Kipling “Or to Begin Again” by Ann Lauterbach

Exile on Main Street: The Poetics of Larry Levis   In his new essay, Joseph Fasano writes about the work of the late Larry Levis whose poems, Fasano writes, “provide us with the inevitable impression that their speakers are deeply invested in our response, in our revival, even in our repair.” Resolve to Read a Poem-a-Day   Start the year off by signing up for our free Poem-a-Day newsletter and receive original, previously unpublished poems by our country’s most talented poets throughout the week and classic poems on the weekends. New Residency at The Betsy Hotel   This year’s winner of our $5,000 James Laughlin Award will receive an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy, a boutique hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, with a special literary legacy. Read more about our new partnership. Austin International Poetry Festival   SPONSORED  Join us in Austin, Texas, this April 9 to 12 for an amazing four days of poetry events. Deadline to submit for the di-vêrsé-city Anthology competition is January 31. Festival pre-registration closes April 1, 2015. Visit the website for more information. P.O.P. Series   Watch Suzanne Gardinier read from her long poem “Iridium” and talk about the last poem she read that gave her joy.        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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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