What's Old is New Again through Poetry: Kicking off American Archives Month & More

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 4, 2016 History: Reexamined, Repurposed in Poems   Celebrate American Archives Month this October by reading this roundup of poems inspired by research, archival documents, and repurposed text to create meaning.   “Old Photographs” by Gabeba Baderoon “Nox [Excerpts]” by Anne Carson “War Photograph” by Kate Daniels “from ‘A Hemingway Reader’: The Sun Also Also Rises” by Robert Fitterman “The Symbolical Head (1883) as When Was the Last Time?” by Kathryn Nuernberger “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard” by Patrick Rosal “from One Big Self [‘Count your fingers’]” by C. D. Wright “Blackacre” by Monica Youn

Poetry Breaks: Philip Levine   In celebration of American Archives Month, we’re launching our new Poetry Breaks series, which we’ll be featuring every weekend starting with this archival video of Philip Levine discussing and reading his poem “M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942.” Watch the video and find out more. We the Poets   Take a step back into history with We the Poets, a multimedia project for which we commissioned poets to write original works based on the National Archives’ holdings. Read poems by Regie Cabico, Sandra Beasley, Mary Jo Salter, and more. Browse photos and documents from the archive. Read "Out of the Schools and Into the Archives" by Ammiel Alcalay. Browse poems about history. Imagine Our Parks with Poems   In celebration of the National Park Service Centennial, we’ve commissioned fifty poets to write poems about a park in each of the fifty states. Every Thursday this fall we’ll feature a selection of five of the new, commissioned poems in different regions across the country. Read the first five poems on Poets.org. American Poets, Fall–Winter 2016   The Fall–Winter 2016 issue of American Poets features reviews of recent and upcoming poetry collections; new poems by Eavan Boland, Peter Gizzi, and Solmaz Sharif; and a conversation between Yusef Komunyakaa and Ishion Hutchinson. Visit Poets.org for a sneak peek. Ask a Poet: Brenda Hillman   “Poetry is the intense music of our wild dreams,” says Chancellor Brenda Hillman in a Q&A on the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival blog. Visit the blog for this Q&A and more, featuring Academy Chancellors and other festival poets as they prepare to join us at the Dodge Poetry Festival later this month. Counting Down to Poets Forum   There’s only two weeks left until we present our annual Poets Forum at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, October 20 to 23, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center for a full weekend of panels, readings, and other events. Members receive a 10% discount. Buy your tickets now! In Case You Missed It   Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric in The New Yorker A profile of the 2016 Wallace Stevens Award winner.   Maya Angelou’s And Still I Rise A trailer of the new documentary, which will be released on October 14.   Melville, 125 Years Later Celebrating the 125th anniversary of Melville’s death with poetry.   Claudia Rankine’s Genius Stephen Burt on Chancellor Claudia Rankine’s groundbreaking Citizen: An American Lyric.   The Academy of American Poets is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 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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