Letter
Carrying Our Founder’s Torch
by Jennifer Benka

Education
Dear Poet: Fostering a Lifelong Engagement with Poetry

Awards
The American Poets Prizes
Announcing this year’s winners of our award series, featuring poems by the prizewinners.

Q&A
Inaugural Ambroggio Prize Winner Raquel Salas Rivera and Chancellor Alberto Ríos

The T. S. Eliot Foundation: A New Partner for the Academy of American Poets Fellowship

Essay
Flexing the Form: Contemporary Innovation in the Sestina
by Sandra Beasley

Re:Print
Selected poems from new books by Anselm Berrigan, Tiana Clark, Laura Da’, Blas Falconer, J. Michael Martinez, Eileen Myles, Max Ritvo, Natasha Trethewey, and Emily Jungmin Yoon.

Assuming the Mask: Persona and Identity in Ai’s Poetry
by Major Jackson

From the Archive
Ai’s Lamont Poetry Selection Letter

Books Noted
by Maya Phillips

Poem
from “Mama and Papa Have the Going Home Shiprock Blues
by Joy Harjo