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I, too, am America. —Langston Hughes #FourthofJuly

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You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. —Maya Angelou

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Discover the meaning behind Maya Angelou's inspiring poem, with an audio recording of actress Rosie Perez reading this classic work, which has been celebrated by Serena Williams, Cory Booker, and...

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"It has to be both: beautiful & political at the same time. I’m not interested in art that is not in the world. And it’s not just the narrative, it’s not just the story; it’s the language & the structure & what’s going on behind it." —Toni Morrison (1931–2019)

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What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? —Robert Hayden

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think about it, please, a little? —James Baldwin, born #OTD in 1924

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"I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives." —Ntozake Shange, RIP (1948 - 2018)

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The towers of Notre Dame cut clean and gray The evening sky, and pale from left to right A hundred bridges leap from either quay. —Willa Cather in 1923

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O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free. —Langston Hughes, born #OTD in 1902 #BlackHistoryMonth

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A poem by Ross Gay in memory of Eric Garner.

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Let’s go back to that. —Naomi Shihab Nye

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Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - —Emily Dickinson #March #WomensHistoryMonth

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Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - —Emily Dickinson #WomensHistoryMonth

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we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling —Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet

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Late Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis, when asked by @POETSorg in April 2015 about his favorite lines of poetry, sent in the last two lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, which he had printed on his official letterhead and signed:

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Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore —Naomi Shihab Nye #WorldKindnessDay

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I rise I rise I rise. —Maya Angelou, born #OTD in 1928 #nationalpoetrymonth

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i need to know their names those women i would have walked with —Lucille Clifton

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The library is dangerous, full Of answers. If you go inside, You may not come out The same person who went in. —Alberto Rios #Libraries

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The darkest hour is just before the dawn, and that, I see, which does not guarantee power to draw the next breath, nor abolish the suspicion that the brightest hour we will ever see occurs just before we cease to be. —James Baldwin, born #OTD in 1924

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A novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet, James Baldwin was a major voice in the civil rights movement.

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Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - —Emily Dickinson #March #WomensHistoryMonth

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Sisters there is a hole in my heart that is bearing your shapes over and over as I read only the headlines of this morning's newspaper. —Audre Lorde, born #OTD in 1934

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They have no idea what I am. —Terrance Hayes

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After last week's reading by @TheAmandaGorman at President @JoeBiden 's Inauguration, traffic to spiked dramatically with 250% more visitors than on the same day last year! More here:

After Inauguration Poets.org Has Historic Spike in Traffic

New York, NY (January 25, 2021)— Immediately following the stirring recitation by the f

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My children are so young when I turn off the radio as the news turns to counting the dead or naming the act, they aren’t even suspicious. My children are so young they cannot imagine a world like the one they live in. —Carrie Fountain #PoemADay

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A poem for Aretha Franklin.

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The library is dangerous, full Of answers. If you go inside, You may not come out The same person who went in. —Alberto Ríos #NationalLibraryWeek

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It is June. I am tired of being brave. —Anne Sexton #June

The Truth the Dead Know

Gone, I say and walk from church,

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My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet. —Ada Limón @adalimon #MothersDay #MothersDay2019 More poems to share:

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History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. —Seamus Heaney

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Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. —Mary Oliver, 1935-2019

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Mary Oliver was born on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio.

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James Baldwin was born #OnThisDay in 1924.

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let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves. —Lucille Clifton

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These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready? —June Jordan, born on this day in 1936

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Ross Gay's poem for Eric Garner:

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Congratulations to Ocean Vuong, who today was named a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" recipient! @macfound

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Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), which was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He lives in New York City.

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These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready? —June Jordan

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Langston Hughes was born #OTD in 1902. #BlackHistoryMonth

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The library is dangerous, full Of answers. If you go inside, You may not come out The same person who went in. —Alberto Ríos #BannedBooksWeek

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i need to know their names those women i would have walked with —Lucille Clifton #WomensMarch

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Absolutely, there were some forests left! Absolutely, we still had some lakes! —Matthew Olzmann

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I, too, sing America. —Langston Hughes (b. #OnThisDay in 1902) #BlackHistoryMonth

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A poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith:

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These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready? —June Jordan #WorldPoetryDay

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To become obscure among human beings, but clearer in all relations, to become the night, thickening to mist over the water, vanishing with first light of morning. —Kevin Killian, RIP (1952 - 2019)

Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian authored more than thirty novels, plays, stories, and poetry collections.

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Let joy. Let entering. Let rage and calm join. Let quail come. Let winter impress you. Let spring. —Linda Gregg, who passed away yesterday at the age of 76

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Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. —Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death (479)

Because I could not stop for Death—

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The writing hand: in vain —Jack Kerouac, born #OTD in 1922

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Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down. —Robert Frost

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Wait. Don’t go too early. —Galway Kinnell Read the full poem:

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The darkest hour is just before the dawn, and that, I see, which does not guarantee power to draw the next breath, nor abolish the suspicion that the brightest hour we will ever see occurs just before we cease to be. —James Baldwin, born #OTD in 1924

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I would do it all over again: Be the harbor and set the sail, Loose the breeze and harness the gale, Cherish the harvest of what I have been. Better the summit to scale. Better the summit to be. —Toni Morrison

Eve Remembering

I tore from a limb fruit that had lost its green.

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"They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America." —Langston Hughes, born #OTD in 1902.

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I, too, sing America.

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There are things you can't reach. But you can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. —Mary Oliver (1935–2019)

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When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is —Naomi Shihab Nye

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What shall I do with all this heartache? —Joy Harjo

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We know ourselves to be part of mystery. It is unspeakable. It is everlasting. It is for keeps. —Joy Harjo, who has just been appointed the next U.S. poet laureate

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To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently, Dark like me— That is my dream! —Langston Hughes, born #OTD #BlackHistoryMonth

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A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in...

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These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready? —June Jordan #NationalPoetryDay

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“However,” replied the universe —Stephen Crane

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Congratulations to our new U.S. Poet Laureate @adalimon !

Librarian of Congress Names Ada Limón the Nation's 24th U.S. Poet Laureate

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the appointment of Ada Limón as the nation’s 24th U.S. Poet Laureate for 2022-2023.

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And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils. —William Wordsworth, born #OTD in 1770

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Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore —Naomi Shihab Nye “Kindness” was 's most popular poem in 2018 by a contemporary poet:

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Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— over and over announcing your place in the family of things. —Mary Oliver #PoemADay

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before —Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

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The border is a beautiful piece of paper folded carelessly in half. —Alberto Ríos @AlbertoRiosAZ

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It grieves me to think the dead won't see them— these things we depend on, they disappear. —Louise Glück (1943-2023)

The Night Migrations

This is the moment when you see again

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All poetry is a form of hope. —Dean Young #PoemADay

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In this time of uncertainty and great concern, people are turning to poems to seek language that centers us. In response to this need and to help our readers stay connected in the weeks ahead, we invite you to join a new initiative called Shelter in Poems:

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You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn. —Margaret Atwood, who turns 80 today

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Born in Canada in 1939, Margaret Atwood is the author of over fifteen books of poetry.

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I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything such a big deal. —Ada Limón @adalimon

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because I cannot apologize to the tree, to my own self I say, I am sorry. I am sorry I have been so reckless with your life. —Ada Limón

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On the top of Mount Pisgah, on the western / slope of the Mayacamas,

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April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. —T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land

April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.

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Unable, it seems, to fear what was too large to be comprehended. —Jane Hirshfield

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may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it —Lucille Clifton

blessing the boats

may the tide

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Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. —Joy Harjo #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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Beware the ides of March. —William Shakespeare Read excerpts from "Julius Caesar": #IdesofMarch #BewareTheIdesofMarch

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My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet. —Ada Limón #MothersDay

The Raincoat

When the doctor suggested surgery

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Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus," forever a beacon of hope.

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The stars do not blow away as we do. —Linda Gregg, who passed away yesterday at the age of 76

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“History has its eyes on us.” — @TheAmandaGorman

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Celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks's centennial with this new collection of poems, essays, archival audio & more:

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I wish maps would be without borders & that we belonged to no one & to everyone at once —Yesenia Montilla

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"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before." —Audre Lorde, born #OTD

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Poet, essayist, and novelist Audre Lorde was born on February 18, 1934,

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And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. —Walt Whitman, born #OTD in 1819

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there are words that I cannot separate, like father, mother and child —José B. González

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red pen in hand,

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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. —Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver was born on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio.

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Write in the light of all the languages you know the earth contains, you murmur in my ear. This is pure transport. —Meena Alexander, RIP (1951 - 2018)

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Let it be known: I did not fall from grace. I leapt to freedom. —Ansel Elkins #InternationalWomenDay2020

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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. —Maya Angelou #MLKDay #MLK90

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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. —Edna St. Vincent Millay #April #NationalPoetryMonth

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The library is a quiet place. Angels and gods huddled In dark unopened books. —Charles Simic #NationalLibraryWeek

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loving you is a long river running. —Sonia Sanchez

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Perhaps the truth is that every song of this country has an unsung third stanza, something brutal snaking underneath us as we blindly sing the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands —Ada Limón @adalimon #July4th #IndependenceDay

A New National Anthem

The truth is, I’ve never cared for the National

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with his very large hands, perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants —Ross Gay, writing in honor of Eric Garner, who died on this day in 2014

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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive —E. E. Cummings #PoemADay

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And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons. —Sylvia Plath, born #OTD

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Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

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Thank you my life long afternoon late in this spring that has no age —W. S. Merwin #PoemADay

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Let it be known: I did not fall from grace. I leapt to freedom. —Ansel Elkins #InternationalWomensDay

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No one believes it is happening now. —Czeslaw Milosz, born #OTD in 1911

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I worry that my friends will misunderstand my silence as a lack of love, or interest, instead of a tent city built for my own mind —Tarfia Faizullah #PoemADay

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