Poe, Burns & Rossetti for Halloween; November's Guest Editor & More

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 30, 2018 Halloween Poems Now or Nevermore   Read these poems full of haunted houses, spirits, and scares for your Halloween celebration tomorrow, and find more on Poets.org.   "Zombie" by Hadara Bar-Nadav "Halloween" by Robert Burns "The Giaour [Unquenched, unquenchable]" by George Gordon Byron "Ghosts" by Kiki Petrosino "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe "A Chilly Night" by Christina Rossetti "Song of the Deathless Voice" by Abram Joseph Ryan "Cupid" by Amber Flora Thomas "To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse" by Burlee Vang

Browse poems about ghosts. Browse poems about the underworld. Browse poems about autumn. November Editor: Don Mee Choi   For the month of November, we welcome Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), as the new Poem-a-Day guest editor. Sign up for Poem-a-Day to receive the poems she's curated for the month. Q&A: 2018 Ambroggio Winner   In this new feature on Poets.org, Academy Chancellor Alberto Ríos, judge of the inaugural Ambroggio Prize, speaks to prizewinner Raquel Salas Rivera about the art of translation and the process of translating one's own work. Read the Q&A and find out how you can submit to the 2019 Ambroggio Prize. A Poetry Reading by Raquel Salas Rivera   Watch this video, featuring 2018 Ambroggio Prize winner Raquel Salas Rivera reading four poems in Spanish and English, and learn more about our suite of translation prizes, now open for submissions through February 15. Submit: 2019 Walt Whitman Award   This is your last chance to submit your full-length poetry manuscript to the 2019 Walt Whitman Award, which will be judged by Li-Young Lee. The winner will receive $5,000 and an all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, and their manuscript will be published by Graywolf Press and distributed to Academy members. Deadline: November 1. Design the 2019 NPM Poster   Tomorrow is the deadline for U.S. students in grades 9–12 to submit their artwork for the 2019 National Poetry Month Poster Contest for Students, which will be judged by Debbie Millman and Naomi Shihab Nye. Read more about the guidelines and prizes. Deadline: October 31. In Case You Missed It   Poetry as a Lifeline in Dark Times Chancellor Linda Gregerson speaks with Westword about her poetry, her reading list, and the role of poetry in our world now.   T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Congratulations to Chancellor Terrance Hayes and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for being shortlisted for their recent poetry collections.   "The Fidelity of Water" Read a poem by 2018 James Laughlin Award winner Geffrey Davis in The New Yorker.   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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