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