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Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year. Danez Smith is the guest editor of August. Read or listen to a Q&A with Smith about their curatorial process, and learn more about the 2024 guest editors .
Dec 23, 2019 · The following excerpts provide just a glimpse of our year in poetry—visit the complete poetry archive to read these poems, and many others, in their entirety. 1. “ American Sonnet for the New...
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Feb 1, 2020 · Below, we introduce ten great twenty-first-century poems from a range of contemporary poets. 1. Michael Donaghy, ‘ Black Ice and Rain ’. Published in 2000 in his collection Conjure, this poem is the earliest on this list, appearing at the very beginning of the current century. Donaghy’s early death, aged just 50, in 2004 robbed the poetry ...
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Unraveling the intertwined histories of the long and the short poem, we will survey many of the chief topics in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry. Certain topics will seem exclusively modern: ecopoetics, poetry and social media, writing in the age of American empire and #BlackLivesMatter.
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Dec 21, 2021 · Our most-read poems from 2021 comprise powerful and formally inventive work by some of our favorite poets—Solmaz Sharif, Ocean Vuong, Alex Dimitrov, and others. These poems remind us why we turn to poetry in times of crisis and upheaval; each maps a distinctive mind thinking through the joys and pains of being alive today.
