End of Summer Poems, Poets' Odd Jobs, Whitman Award Submissions Opening & More

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 23, 2016 Songs for Season’s End   Wrap up those late summer plans and breeze through the last days of August with this roundup of poems for the end of summer.   “The August Preoccupations” by Catherine Barnett “On Summer” by George Moses Horton “Summer Holiday” by Robinson Jeffers “Three Songs at the End of Summer” by Jane Kenyon “Fall Parties” by Becca Klaver “August Morning, Upper Broadway” by Alicia Ostriker “Ordinary Time” by Jay Parini “In the Mountains on a Summer Day” by Li Po “August” by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Poets’ Odd Jobs   Bankers, tax collectors, actresses, doctors, streetcar conductors, and more: Celebrate Labor Day by reading this brand-new feature on the odd or unique jobs renowned poets like Maya Angelou, Charles Bukowski, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman have held. Browse poems about work. Browse poems about school. Browse poetic schools and movements. Walt Whitman Award Submissions   Submissions for the Walt Whitman Award, our $5,000 first-book publication prize, will be accepted online beginning September 1. The winner is published by Graywolf Press and receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, as well as distribution of their book to thousands of our members. U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will judge. Poets Forum Lineup Announced   This October 20 to 23, join us at the spectacular New Jersey Performing Arts Center as we present our annual Poets Forum in partnership with the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America. The weekend of special events will include a reading by the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets and a series of conversations among the distinguished poets. Take a look at this year’s lineup. New Materials for Teachers   Sign up for the monthly Educator Newsletter and our weekly Teach This Poem Newsletter to stay up-to-date on our newest resources for teachers, just in time for back to school. National Aviation Day   Last week we celebrated National Aviation Day by taking a look back into our archive at a 1936 letter Amelia Earhart wrote to Academy of American Poets founder Marie Bullock. Check out the letter and browse poems about space and flight on Poets.org. 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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