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Summer Greens: Poems for Gardens and Flowers
Fair Realist: Peter Gizzi on Barbara Guest
Listen Up: Poetry Recordings
First Books: Walt Whitman Award
Winning Translation: Clayton Eshleman & César Vallejo
In Memoriam: Jason Shinder
Poems In Pockets: National Poetry Month 2008
By Decree: Poetry Proclaimed Nationwide
Summer Greens: Poems for Gardens and Flowers
"Wasn't the earth / safe when it was planted // didn't we plant the seeds, / weren't we necessary to the earth," writes Louise Glück in her poem "October." From classic to contemporary, vegetable gardens to manicured hedges, and wildflowers to window boxes, find over fifty poems for planting and picking on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/gardens & www.poets.org/flowers
Fair Realist: Peter Gizzi on Barbara Guest
"Guest's poetry, like all great art, makes us reconsider tradition—not as a fixed canonical body that exists behind us or bears us up but as something we move toward," writes Peter Gizzi in an essay first published in American Poet, the biannual journal of the Academy of American Poets, and recently reprinted as the introduction to The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest.
On the web at: www.poets.org/pgizz
Listen Up: New Poetry Recordings
Tune in and listen to dozens of recordings, both archival and new, that have just been added to Poets.org. Stream poems read by Billy Collins, Jorie Graham, Walt Whitman, Frank Bidart, Cole Swensen, Marie Ponsot, Karen Volkman, Kay Ryan, Nathaniel Mackey, and many others.
On the web at: www.poets.org/audio
First Books: Walt Whitman Award
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Jonathan Thirkield has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award for his first book-length collection of poems, The Waker's Corridor, chosen by poet Linda Bierds from over 1,000 entries. The book will be published in the spring of 2009 by Louisiana State University Press. Look for Sex At Noon Taxes, the poetry collection by Sally Van Doren, recipient of last year's Walt Whitman Award, now in stores.
On the web at: www.poets.org/whitman
Winning Translation: Clayton Eshleman & César Vallejo
Considered one of the essential poets of the twentieth century, César Vallejo stretched and expanded the Spanish language in his verse, while examining his own faith and politics. His longtime translator, Clayton Eshleman, has received the 2008 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for his translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo (University of California Press, 2007).
"If Vallejo truly found him in a dream and led him into poetry, the response as translation more than requites it," writes the judge for this year's award, poet and translator Jerome Rothenberg. Learn more about Vallejo, Eshleman, and the award online.
On the web at: www.poets.org/cvall
In Memoriam: Jason Shinder
When we lie, we live a little longer—
which is unbelievable. If you love
someone, the water moves up from the well.
—From "Little America" by Jason Shinder
The Academy joins the literary community in mourning the loss of Jason Shinder, a poet, teacher, and tireless advocate of the arts. Read his profile and four new poems from his forthcoming collection.
On the web at: www.poets.org/jshin
Poems In Pockets: National Poetry Month 2008
April 17 marked the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day. The event, celebrated in New York City for the past six years, caught on in schools, universities, bookstores, libraries, and workplaces across the nation. In Bishop, California, Spellbinder Books offered a free homemade cookie to any customer with a poem in pocket to share. In Gambier, Ohio, students fixed poems to a clothesline for students and professors to take on their way to class. At the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., a lunch reading of was held live and on the web. View more stories, photographs, and highlights on Poets.org and submit your own to: npm@poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/pocket
By Decree: Poetry Proclaimed Nationwide
Official proclamations declaring National Poetry Month from mayors and governors across the country can be viewed online, including brand new additions from the City of Cambridge in Massachusetts and Columbia County in Georgia. Get ready for National Poetry Month 2009 by requesting an official proclamation from your city and state. Find sample letters online.
On the web at: www.poets.org/proclamations
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