Academy of American Poets

Poem-a-Day, #NationalPoetryMonth & more, celebrating 90 years as the nation's leading champion of poets, poetry, and the work of poetry organizations.

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11/11/26 “like the predators
we dream ourselves to be.”

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"Meeting Ourselves" by Vachel Lindsay, born #OTD in 1879.

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11/10/26 “O California, tell me,
what has been buried”

[📖 Liber Miraculum 📖 @LiberMiraculum]

9 November 1928 American poet Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts, according to the Academy of American Poets.
Her debut collection, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, appeared in 1960 from Houghton Mifflin, Boston,with a dust jacket designed by Ellen Raskin

[Daniel Seifert @DanSeifwrites]

Wonderfully concise, and yet so vivid

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"Poem" [How about an oak leaf] by James Schuyler, born #OTD in 1923.

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“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton, born #OTD in 1928.

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11/9/26 “Like tar the smoke
On our skin”

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11/8/26 “And that
(Said John)
Is
That.”

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11/7/26 “Night, lingering, poured upon the world”

[Being a Human @BeingAHumanNet]

@POETSorg A short line like that can hold a whole weather system of feeling. Poetry still does that work better than most feeds.

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

This poem is heart wrenching and perfectly written. I’ve been thinking about it all week. Mmph. ❤️‍🩹

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11/6/26 “We were beautiful sunsets
even when the clouds came in.”

[Roy G. Biv @RALPHEEBOI]

@cerena @POETSorg VERY excited to hear/read your choices. 2027 is looking good

[Kenzie Allen 🌵 @cerena]

SO excited to be Poem-a-Day’s guest editor for November 2027! ✨

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Join us at Miami Book Fair on Nov. 22 at 1 p.m. for “Poetry, Social Justice & Witness” with Carolyn Forché, Daniel Moysaenko, and Jake Skeets, moderated by the Academy’s Nadra Mabrouk. Room 8303, Building 8, third floor.

https://t.co/iuDdFKWzFt

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11/5/26 “I had no maps marking the past”

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11/4/26 “They say you’re common
but not to a Brooklyn girl like me”

[M⚕️ S @thinkalot]

This. Absolutely this.

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Twelve poets. A whole new year of discovery. Meet your 2027 Poem-a-Day Guest Editors! Your next favorite poet could be one poem away.

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