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The Poets.org Postcard Archive provides a glimpse into the Academy of American Poets mailbag at 75 Maiden Lane. Browse postcards and ephemera sent from Sherman Alexie, Henri Cole, Brenda Hillman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds & more.

At the 2012 AWP Conference, poets who stopped by the Academy of American Poets's table were asked to deliver a piece of advice for younger poets. Below is a sample of these helpful gems of wisdom:

Tina Chang	Heather Christle	Philip Levine
Joyelle McSweeney	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	Terese Svoboda

Check out these correspondences from the dog days of summer:

Sherman Alexie	Robin Becker	Laynie Browne
Henri Cole	Graham Foust	Kate Greenstreet
Brenda Hillman	David Lehman	Dana Levin
E. Ethelbert Miller	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	Naomi Shihab Nye
Sharon Olds	Srikanth Reddy	Evie Shockley
Arthur Sze	G. C. Waldrep	Crystal Williams