Letter
Poets Write the Way Forward
by Jennifer Benka

Awards
Introducing the 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows

Q&A
Summer Series Guest Editors on Poem-a-Day

Essay
‘Wild Horses’ and Re-Imagining History
by Paisley Rekdal
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Essay 
The Great Contamination, or the Ethics of Writing in Persona
by Roger Reeves
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Essay
Shelter in Poems: Patricia Smith’s “Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean”
by Sasha Pimentel
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From the Academy 
Shelter in Poems

Books Noted Live
Readings and conversations with Honorée Fannone Jeffers, Tyree Daye, Pamela Sneed, Aditi Machado, Taylor Johnson, Yona Harvey, Joshua Bennett, and Kazim Ali. 

Poem
Born Frees
by Pamela Sneed

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Xandria Phillips
The Colors Won’t Exhaust Themselves, 2020

Gouache on canvas
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In wanting to tell stories without faces or names, I began to paint. The Colors Won’t Exhaust Themselves is a work that speaks to my relationship with color, body, and anxiety. Each color exists in the painting because another summoned it.


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