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We asked Camille Dungy, Elaine Equi, Dawn Lundy Martin, Ronald Wallace and Matthew Zapruder to share their creative writing and literature syllabi with us. Take a look and design your own poetry course this summer.

Poems from Nature
by Camille Dungy

Modern American Poetry: the Objectivists
by Elaine Equi

Black Radical Poetry
by Dawn Lundy Martin

Writing Poetry in Traditional Forms
by Ronald Wallace

Metaphor in Literature
by Matthew Zapruder

With congratulations to the graduating class of 2013, the Academy of American Poets presents poems of advice, nostalgia, and celebration.
	Dreams by Langston Hughes
	You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras
	If— by Rudyard Kipling
	Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska
	Carpe Diem by Robert Frost
	Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
	it was a dream by Lucille Clifton
	O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
	A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
	My Life has been the poem I would have writ by Henry David Thoreau

DAILY POETRY

Poem-A-Day

May 23, 2013

In Portraits in Seasons
by Danielle Pafunda
As a feral thing would. As a dead leaf

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FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS

Spotlight Poet
Adrienne Rich
It was in 1973, in the midst of the feminist and civil rights movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress that Rich wrote Diving into the Wreck, a collection of exploratory and often angry poems, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974.

Spotlight Audio
R&B
by A. Van Jordan