The Best Poems for Mother's Day, A New Essay on Poetic Schools, and Over 100 Videos

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 5, 2015 To My First Love, My Mother   Just in time for Mother’s Day, we present a selection of poems you can share with your mother on Sunday, as well as poems about renewal and change for the season.   “Alcove” by John Ashbery “Another Poem for Mothers” by Erin Belieu “[O were my love yon Lilac fair]” by Robert Burns “Two Sewing” by Hazel Hall “Each year” by Dora Malech “Springing” by Marie Ponsot “Mother” by Lola Ridge “My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand “Mother’s Day” by David Young

Mother Knows Best: Poets and Their Mothers   Toi Derricotte, Juan Felipe Herrera, Sharon Olds, and others discuss poems they’ve written about their mothers, as well as their mothers’ responses to them.   Juan Felipe Herrera with Lucha Herrera Quintana. Copyright © 2012 by Juan Felipe Herrera.  New Essay: Out of the Schools and Into the Archives   Ever wonder how poetic schools and movements are formed? In his new essay “Out of the Schools and Into the Archives,” Ammiel Alcalay examines why poets such as John Ashbery, Diane di Prima, and Charles Olson are connected with specific movements, and how such schools and movements can hide more than they reveal.   New Video on Poets.org   Browse the latest videos in each of our series and access our entire collection of over one hundred videos featuring award-winning poets in conversation, reading their work, and discussing the landscape of American poetry. Get updated each time we post a new video by subscribing to our YouTube channel! Bob Holman and Ammiel Alcalay on endangered languages and texts. C. D. Wright on contemporary practices of ecopoetics. Quraysh Ali Lansana on The Breakbeat Poets anthology. Awards Deadline: Postmark May 15   There’s still time to submit to the $5,000 James Laughlin Award, which is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry and includes a residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, and the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given to the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States. 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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