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Announcing the 2018 Walt Whitman Judge & More

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July 11, 2017

The Walt Whitman Award

 

As we approach the beginning of the submission period for next Walt Whitman Award, we present a selection of poems by past winners whose inspiring debuts we're proud to have helped launch. 

 

"Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging" by Carl Adamshick
"Compendium of Lost Objects" by Nicole Cooley
"[Untitled]" by J. Michael Martinez
"Portrait of My Father as a Young Black Man" by Sjohnna McCray
"Strip" by Hannah Sanghee Park
"In Whoever's Hotel Room This Is" by Matt Rasmussen
"Dear Exile," by Mai Der Vang
"Square Cells" by Jenny Xie

Announcing the 2018 Whitman Award Judge

 

Joy Harjo will judge the 2018 Walt Whitman Award, the nation's most valuable first-book prize for poetry. The winner receives $5,000, publication of their book by Graywolf Press, and a six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy. The submission period begins September 1, 2017.

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Browse all of our archival Poetry Breaks videos, now available on Poets.org.

Browse our weekly Jobs for Poets listings of arts jobs available across the United States.

Read new testimonials from poets on why the NEA matters.

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Award-winning Website Poets.org

 

Poets.org has been named a 2017 Best Website for Teaching & Learning by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association. Learn more about our educational resources and our new award.

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Grab a Tote from the Poets Shop

 

Now through Friday, all Academy of American Poets totes are only $5. Choose from Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, or Langston Hughes, and make room for more summer reading with a beautiful new canvas carry-along.

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In Case You Missed It

 

Poets Heading to Cuba

For the first time in over six decades, a contingent of American poets and writers are heading to Havana for a poetry festival.

 

Tracy K. Smith on Four Poets You Should Read
New U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith names four poets you should read, including Chancellor Claudia Rankine.

 

Introducing Our New Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress blog reviews Smith's first week since the appointment.

 

Khaled Mattawa Makes National Translation Award Longlist in Poetry
A Map of Signs and Scents by Amjad Nasser and translated by Fady Joudah and Chancellor Khaled Mattawa makes the longlist of the National Translation Award in Poetry.

 

RIP James Berry, Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, and Jack Collom.
Read about BerryBonanno, and Collom on Poets.org.

 

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.

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