Jen BenkaOvjeren akaunt

@jenbenka

President & Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, producer of , Poem-a-Day, Poet advocating for poets.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2010.

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    14. sij 2017.

    "Remember a future / from another dream / and hold on..." —Claudia Rankine

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    Looking for a poem to share this Valentine’s Day? Here's a curated list of 14 love poems—both classic and contemporary—from :

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  3. Ir Re Sis Ti Belle —Gertrude Stein's love note to Alice B. Toklas. Sharing in advance of as it's Stein's birthday today!

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  4. Welcome, Roger. And, thanks for an incredible month of reading in January!

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    Cheering for

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    And when the owl stirred, a fine dust fell from its wings. I was silent then. And felt the owl quaver. And at dawn, waking, the path was green in the May light. —Arthur Sze

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    Wait, for now. Distrust everything if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now? —Galway Kinnell, born

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    These organizations lift up the arts as a critical part of building the future.

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    Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. —Langston Hughes, born

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    “I have so much faith in the leadership of the Academy of American Poets,” the Mellon Foundation’s Elizabeth Alexander said, “and in what I think is poetry’s under-recognized ability to communicate with outsized power”

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    Poets laureate fellowships allow us to consider, “How can communities use poems? How can we let poetry be a way that we can explore what it means to be American in all these different places in real time?”—Elizabeth Alexander () to :

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    30. sij

    "We are thrilled that this extraordinary grant will...enable us to meaningfully fund poets who are involved in the civic life of their communities." —Michael Jacobs, Chairman

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    28. sij

    Sign up for Poem-a-Day, the only daily series featuring new work by today's poets. Subscribe for free at

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    30. sij

    We're very grateful to for their gift of $4.5 million—the largest grant ever made by a philanthropic institution to support poets living in the U.S. It will allow us to fund our Poets Laureate Fellowship program for the next 3 years

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    30. sij

    Poets Laureate: Please apply to this! This fellowship saved my life. Thanks to , , the Mellon Foundation, and everyone who helps make this fellowship possible. Apply!

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    “I have so much faith in the leadership of , in the whole concept of the poets laureate project, and in what I think is poetry’s underrecognized ability to communicate with outsized power.”— Pres. Elizabeth Alexander ()

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  18. 30. sij

    I'm thrilled to share this historic news for the Academy of American Poets and to be able to support the important work of Poets Laureate in the years ahead. With unending gratitude to and visionary Elizabeth Alexander

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  19. 29. sij

    Every individual thing glowed with life. Bands of energy were being dispersed from a huge universal heartbeat, faster than a raging river. I found I could move as fast as I could think. —Tracy K. Smith

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    “Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now” —

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  21. 29. sij

    It’s true that just yesterday I told my spouse that I was going to try to finish reading my way through the towering stack of books on the coffee table before I bought another book. It’s also true that I just bought this memoir by poet

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