Halloween, Poetry of Superstition, National Native American Heritage Month

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 29, 2019 Celebrate Halloween   Feel the spirit of Halloween with this selection of poems from poets.org.    "Electronic Thorns" by Reem Allawati "The Owner of the Night" by Mark Doty "From a Train" by Lynn Emanuel "Ghosts" by Kiki Petrosino "The Haunted Palace" by Edgar Allan Poe "Zombie" by Hadara Bar-Nadav "At Night" by Yone Noguchi "Bats" by Paisley Rekdal "To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse" by Burlee Vang "All Hallows Night" by Lizette Woodworth Reese

Browse resources for teachers. Read featured essays. Read poems about autumn. The Poetry of Superstition and Supposition   Read this piece by Aimee Nezhukumatathil on superstitions and ways to use these beliefs when writing poetry.  Native American Heritage Month   November marks National Native American Heritage Month. To celebrate and honor Native American writers, browse our collection of essays and poems by Joy Harjo, Natalize Diaz, Michael Wasson, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier and more. Sherwin Bitsui will be curating our Poem-a-Day series for the month of November. Treehouse Climate Action Prize   The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment. Submit now before the November 1 deadline! October Guest Editor   Thanks to Oliver de la Paz for curating our Poem-a-Day series for the month of October. Read a Q&A with him about his curatorial approach and his own work.  Poetry Breaks   Watch a video from the archival series "Poetry Breaks," filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leila Luchetti. In this video, Charles Simic reads "The Clocks of the Dead." Sponsored Content   Join playwrights Jackie Sibblies Drury and Claudia Rankine in conversation around their plays Fairview and The White Card at the Center for Fiction on October 29 at 7pm. Get $15 tickets at the Center for Fiction website.        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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