Academy of American Poets
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Academy of American Poets
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Poem-a-Day, #NationalPoetryMonth & more, celebrating 90 years as the nation's leading champion of poets, poetry, and the work of poetry organizations.
- You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. —Maya Angelou
- "It has to be both: beautiful & political at the same time. I’m not interested in art that is not in the world. And it’s not just the narrative, it’s not just the story; it’s the language & the structure & what’s going on behind it." —Toni Morrison (1931–2019)
- What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? —Robert Hayden poets.org/poetsorg/poem/…
- "I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives." —Ntozake Shange, RIP (1948 - 2018) poets.org/poetsorg/poet/…
- The towers of Notre Dame cut clean and gray The evening sky, and pale from left to right A hundred bridges leap from either quay. —Willa Cather in 1923 poets.org/poetsorg/poem/…
- O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free. —Langston Hughes, born #OTD in 1902 poets.org/poetsorg/poem/… #BlackHistoryMonth
- Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - —Emily Dickinson #March #WomensHistoryMonth poets.org/poetsorg/poem/…
- Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - —Emily Dickinson poets.org/poem/dear-marc… #WomensHistoryMonth
- we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling —Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet poets.org/poem/we-lived-…
- Late Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis, when asked by @POETSorg in April 2015 about his favorite lines of poetry, sent in the last two lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, which he had printed on his official letterhead and signed: poets.org/late-congressm…
