Native American Heritage Month, Robert Lowell's Legacy & More

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend November 1, 2017 Celebrating Native American Heritage Month   Celebrate Native American Heritage Month this November by reading and sharing these poems. For more, visit our Native American Heritage Month collection of poems, audio clips, essays, and books. "Dangerous Astronomy" by Sherman Alexie "In a cornfield at the bottom of a sandstone canyon" by Sherwin Bitsui "American Towns" by Laura Da' "Kangi in My Attic" by Lois Red Elk "Peace Path" by Heid E. Erdrich "The Reservation" by Adrian C. Louis "Ode to Sequoyah" by Alexander Posey "Can You Feel the Native American in Me" by M. L. Smoker "Ȟe Sápa, Four" by Layli Long Soldier

Find poems for Election Day. Read poems about autumn. Find poems for Veterans Day. Fragility & Repetition: On the Poetry of Robert Lowell   "Is it too easy to say that Lowell's star has fallen a bit? Or is it actually that the sense of achievement his work self-consciously carries with it itself carries less credibility than it used to?" asks Katie Peterson in this essay on Robert Lowell's life and legacy. Joy Harjo on Indigenous Poetry   Watch Joy Harjo deliver the 2015 Blaney Lecture, "Ancestors: A Mapping of Indigenous Poetry and Poets" and read the full text on Poets.org. And join us at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City for this year's Blaney Lecture, to be delivered by Chancellor Claudia Rankine, later this month. Fall Poetry in New York City   Join us in New York City this evening as we celebrate the launch of the Fall-Winter 2017 issue of American Poets at 7 p.m. at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop (free and open to the public), and again on November 13 for "A Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks" at 7:30 p.m. at the 92nd Street Y. Tickets available on the 92nd Street Y website or at the door. Don't Forget to Plan Ahead   Aim for a 2018 full of poetic inspiration with the new Faber & Faber Poetry Planner, a 12-month planner featuring poems and artwork from the legendary publisher. Now available in the Poets Shop. In Case You Missed It   Poetry Can Improve the World Academy of American Poets Executive Director Jen Benka talks with Ruben Quesada at the Chicago Review of Books.   Terrance Hayes in the New Republic Read "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin," a poem by Chancellor Terrance Hayes, in a recent issue of the New Republic.   Ellen Bass in The New Yorker Read "Indigo," a poem by Chancellor Ellen Bass, in a recent issue of The New Yorker.   Poem-a-Day and a Pushcart Jericho Brown's "The Tradition," which originally ran in our Poem-a-Day program, was awarded a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Read the poem and sign up for Poem-a-Day.   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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