Poetry offers us the capacity to carry in us and express the contradictory impulses that make us human.
—Kwame Dawes, Academy of American Poets Chancellor (2018- )
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bicentennial celebration
Walt Whitman 200
Walt Whitman innovated a uniquely American poetry. In celebration of the bicentennial of his...
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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
In 1992, Congress officially designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, a time to...
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