Poems for Mom, Deadline for the Book Prizes & Joseph Fasano on the Lyric Poem

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 3, 2016 “To my first Love, my Mother”   For Mother’s Day this coming Sunday we offer a selection of poems by classic and contemporary poets for and about mothers.   “Another Poem for Mothers” by Erin Belieu “The Red Sweater” by Joseph O. Legaspi “Taproot and Cradle” by Khaled Mattawa “To My Mother” by Edgar Allan Poe “[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]” by Christina Rossetti “My Mother Was No White Dove” by Reginald Shepherd “My Mother’s Lips” by C. K. Williams

Loving Words for Mother’s Day   Browse poems, books, poetic greetings, personal essays, and more for and about mothers on our Poems for Mother’s Day page. Browse personalized, poetic greetings for Mother’s Day. The poets in this collection discuss their poems about their mothers. Read “On Human Cylinders: The Pregnant Poet,” on poetry of the body. New Essay: On the Lyric Poem   Read our new featured essay, “Supernovae and Dark Stars: Some Notes on Universality in the Lyric Poem,” in which poet Joseph Fasano discusses how the lyric poem bridges the space between the personal and the universal, with examples in poems by Louise Glück, Stanley Kunitz, Larry Levis, and Walt Whitman. Deadline for Book Prizes: May 15   Publishers, there’s still time to submit to the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year, and the $5,000 James Laughlin Award, given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. Video: Projects-in-Progress   Watch this new video on Poets.org, in which Chancellors Marilyn Nelson, Alicia Ostriker, and Alberto Ríos discuss their poetic interests and obsessions, how they arrive at new projects, and what projects they’ve been working on most recently. National Poetry Month Event Recap   National Poetry Month is an umbrella for many innovative and inspiring local celebrations of poetry that reach tens of millions of individuals. We commend all the schools, libraries, publishers, and organizations that took time to promote poetry in their communities this past month. Here is just a sampling of some of our favorite events that took place in April 2016. 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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