To Elsie by William Carlos Williams - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The pure products of America| Poets.org
The pure products of America| Poets.org
A descendant of Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the United States from Portugal around the time of the American Revolution, Emma Lazarus was a Jewish American poet and translator. Her sonnet, “The New Colossus,” is inscribed on a plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty monument.| Poets.org
It little profits that an idle king,| Poets.org
First having read the book of myths,| Poets.org
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In sixth grade Mrs. Walker| Poets.org
Nature's first green is gold| Poets.org
The villanelle is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with t| Poets.org
The 2025 poster features an excerpt from “Gate A-4”, a poem by former Young People’s Poet Laureate and Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye, as well as artwork by New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Christy Mandin.| Poets.org
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.| Poets.org
Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning| Poets.org
I sit in one of the dives| Poets.org
A list poem is a deliberately organized poem containing a list of images or adjectives that build up to describe the poem’s subject matter through an inventory of things.| Poets.org
Discover the meaning of Dylan Thomas's famous villanelle about death, with an audio recording of the poet reading his classic poem. This poem was featured in the 2014 movie Interstellar.| Poets.org
Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previousl| Poets.org
My heart leaps up when I behold| Poets.org
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National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.| Poets.org
