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View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 2, 2019 Honoring the Mother   There are many ways to mother and be mothered. For however you honor and celebrate Mother's Day, read from this round-up of poems exploring the wonder, complexity, and power of motherhood on poets.org.   "How Alone Barbie Chang's Mother" by Victoria Chang "Hunger" by Ama Codjoe "My Mother Would Be a Falconress" by Robert Duncan "The Average Mother" by Camille T. Dungy "The Routine Things Around the House"      by Stephen Dunn "My Mother's Name Lucha" by Juan Felipe Herrera "I Ask My Mother To Sing" by Li-Young Lee "The Raincoat" by Ada Limón "The courage that my mother had"      by Edna St. Vincent Millay "Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar"      by Aimee Nezhukumatathil  "For My Mother" by May Sarton

May Guest Editor: Victoria Chang   Sign up for Poem-a-Day to receive poems curated by Victoria Chang for National Poetry Month, and read a Q&A that discusses her curating approach and more. Photo Credit: Margaret Molloy Mother's Day: Poems for Kids Read from our collection of poems for graduation Browse more poems, essays, books, and more for Mother's Day Thank you for celebrating National Poetry Month with Us   National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K-12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, poets, and more. Thank you for celebrating with us and browsing through our collection of resources. Walt Whitman Bicentennial Reading   In NYC? Join us May 2nd for a special reading from the works of Walt Whitman in celebration of his 200th birthday and the democratic imperatives of his work, featuring Mark Doty, Alicia Ostriker, Carmen Giménez Smith, and others.  Asian/Pacific American Heritage   In 1992, Congress officially designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Celebrate heritage this May—and all year round—by browsing through this selection of poems, audio, videos, and more. Dear Poet 2019   Conclude National Poetry Month by bringing poetry to your classroom with Dear Poet, a multimedia project that invites students to write letters in response to poems written and read by our Chancellors. In this video, Pullitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander reads his poem "Kata: Bus Stop." In Case You Missed It   13 Poets Laureate Receive Fellowships for Civic Projects Read this piece in Poets & Writers on the laureates selected for the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships and awarded over $1,000,000 to establish civic projects.   Ellen Burstyn, Ann Curry and Others Read at Poetry Benefit Read this article in The New York Times on our gala Poetry & the Creative Mind, which opens with: "Some nights remind you there's a poem for everyone." Joy Harjo Wins Jackson Poetry Prize Congratulations to Academy Chancellor Joy Harjo for being awarded the $65,000 prize for "poems that hold us up to the truth and insist we pay attention." Sponsored Content   The PEN World Voices festival begins Monday, May 6. Join us for events with Raúl Zurita, Morgan Parker, Juan Felipe Hererra, Aja Monet, Darnell Moore, La Bruja, and more. Use code POETS2019 for $10 tickets to selected events: bit.ly/2Vanpn1.   Thank You to Our National Poetry Month Sponsors   We'd like to extend our gratitude to all of the publishers and organizations that helped make National Poetry Month 2019 possible:   Ploughshares; Poetry Foundation; Poets & Writers; Princeton University Press; Rain Taxi; Sarabande Books; Scholastic Inc.; Solid Objects; Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts; Strand Books; Ugly Duckling Presse; University of Arizona Poetry Center; University of Arizona Press; University of Arkansas Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; University of Wisconsin Press; Wake Forest University Press; Wayne State University Press; Wesleyan University Press; W. W. Norton & Company; WQXR and Yale University Press.   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