Our heartfelt thanks go out to you, Dear Reader.

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend Dear Friend, The Academy of American Poets' free programs and publications, including Poem-a-Day and Poets.org, are powered by you, our patrons and members. We are only able to share poems and champion the importance of poets and poetry because you are standing with us. In the words of W. S. Merwin:   Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you   Please accept our heartfelt gratitude for your generous contributions, which have helped us meet—and surpass—our year-end fundraising goal.            With best wishes for the New Year,       Jennifer Benka, Executive Director       If you would still like to make a gift in support of our programs, we are happy to extend the deadline—as well as the chance to claim one of our donor thank-you gifts—through January 7, 2018.

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