New on Poets.org
Picturing America: Resources for Educators
New Chancellors: Naomi Shihab Nye & Marie Ponsot
Poetic Beginnings: An Interview with Phillip Lopate
New Bios: Appleman, Howe, Scalapino, & Wetzsteon
Best of the Year: Most Popular Features of 2009
Poems for February: Black History Month
Explore American history through poems and visual art with a new exhibit for teachers and students. The American Library Association's Public Programs Office recently asked Poets.org to compile supplementary resources for Picturing America, the National Endowment for the Humanities's initiative to incorporate visual arts in library and classroom activities involving literature and social studies. Browse an expanded selection of poems tied to each of the celebrated works of visual art; read the historical and contextual information concerning ekphrastic poetry; then get involved by suggesting additional works to include in the catalog.
On the web at: www.poets.org/picturingamerica
New Chancellors: Naomi Shihab Nye and Marie Ponsot
Naomi Shihab Nye and
Marie Ponsot have been elected to the Board of Chancellors, the Academy of American Poets' advisory board of distinguished poets. Edward Hirsch describes Nye as "a deeply humane poet whose work crosses borders and lifts spirits. She nourishes intimacy and fosters understanding." Marie Ponsot's work has been praised by Susan Stewart for the way it "pulls us always to forms of thought and attention that surprise and enlarge and cheer us." Listen to original recordings, read newly added poems, and learn more about their lives and work.
On the web at:
www.poets.org/nsnye &
www.poets.org/mpons
Poetic Beginnings: Phillip Lopate
Widely acknowledged as a master essayist, Phillip Lopate's celebrated literary career is rooted in poetry. "When I look back at those years during which poetry formed such an important part of my identity, I am tempted to rub my eyes, as though recalling a time when I ran off and joined the circus," Lopate recalls in his introduction to At the End of the Day: Selected Poems, his first collection of poetry in many years. Read a selection of poems from the new collection, a prose remembrance of New York School poets, and an interview with the writer, all newly added to Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/plopa
New Bios: Appleman, Howe, Scalapino & Wetzsteon
Read profiles of four poets who represent widely divergent aesthetics—Philip Appleman, Marie Howe,
Leslie Scalapino, and Rachel Wetzsteon.
Browse newly added poems by each poet.
On the web at: www.poets.org/poets
Best of the Year: Most Popular Features of 2009
Take a look at some of the most popular features on Poets.org in 2009, including resources for teens, poems about vampires and sharks, the love letters of John Keats, and much more.
On the web at: www.poets.org/pop
Poems for February: Black History Month
In his Martin Luther King Day speech, President Obama turned to James Russell Lowell's poem, "The Present Crisis," formerly recited by King himself, in order to remember the civil rights activist's legacy: "Truth forever on the scaffold / Wrong forever on the throne..." Gear up for Black History Month by browsing black heritage resources on Poets.org, including featured poets, poems, books, and more.
On the web at: www.poets.org/blackhistory
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