Academy of American Poets

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“Soft Eyes” by Jean Cocteau, translated from the French by Mary-Sherman Willis. Cocteau was born #OTD in 1889.

Read more: https://t.co/sGf1puqbTm

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7/5/26 “The mosquito knows full well, small as he is
he’s a beast of prey.”

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"No Explosions" by Chancellor Emeritus Naomi Shihab Nye.

Read more poems: https://t.co/jm45THGT7W

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7/4/26 “You see no beauty in the parched parade,”

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"I, Too" by Langston Hughes.

Read more poems: https://t.co/Q0Y5KTVs5u

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7/3/26 “ A new feeling told me how beautiful I was”

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7/2/26 “pick a different place, a different time, free his hands”

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Submissions are now open for the 2027 Academy of American Poets Ambroggio Prize.

This $1,000 publication prize is given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation.

Judge: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Deadline: September 15, 2026
Submit: https://t.co/LXDYjuQCsM

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Ya están abiertas las postulaciones para el Premio Ambroggio 2027 de la Academy of American Poets.

Este premio de publicación de $1,000 se otorgará a un manuscrito de poesía de 48-100 páginas escrito originalmente en español y con traducción al inglés.

Juez: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Fecha límite: 15 de septiembre de 2026
Postúlese: https://t.co/LXDYjuQCsM

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7/1/26 “to sell the wasteland teeming with ghosts
the cavernous tongues hanging in the sun”

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@salty3dog We are aware, and thank you.

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6/30/26 “my kin, my ripe bushel of apples,”

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“Artificer” by Czesław Miłosz, born #OTD in 1911.

Read more: https://t.co/hrrKKawjrl

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Join Nicole Sealey (@Nic_Sealey) for The Sealey Challenge: Go-to Verses with Nicole Sealey, a four-part virtual seminar exploring the poems Sealey returns to—and what they reveal about style and craft.

Featuring work by Yusef Komunyakaa, Layli Long Soldier, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tracy K. Smith, Lucille Clifton, Eavan Boland, and more.

First session: Monday, August 10
General admission: $200 | Academy members: $160

Register: https://t.co/3121Ho9HiU

#SealeyChallenge

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“Hurricane Blues” by Arielle Hebert @arielle__hebert from her new book, Bottom Feeders (@blacklawrencepress, 2026), featured in this month’s installment of Enjambments. Read more poems from the collection: https://t.co/vpIRRHLLmO

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6/29/26 “The bluest sky yet beckons our beloveds
Absorbs them back and beyond this realm”

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6/28/26 “I’ve watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow,”

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"A Summer’s Night" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, born #OTD in 1872.

Read more poems: https://t.co/GE3LUezJOj

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“i take my glasses off” by Lucille Clifton, born #OTD in 1936.

Read more poems: https://t.co/flY78mhZX8

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6/27/26 “When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs,”

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6/26/26 “near 67th avenue, street of neon says jesus saves
and I dream each night, about losing you”