The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2021. The guest editors are all award-winning poets who represent wide-ranging editorial perspectives and live in eight different states across the country.



The twelve guest editors are:



January: Fatimah Asghar

February: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

March: Sasha Pimentel

April (National Poetry Month): Jane Hirshfield

May: Sumita Chakraborty

June: Anïas Duplan

July: R. Erica Doyle

August: Kazim Ali

September: Rosa Alcalá 

October: Safiya Sinclair

November: Kimberly Blaeser

December: Ilya Kaminsky



Read the full press release.