From March 13 through April 15, 2019, the Academy of American Poets is sharing a curated selection of poems, audio, essays, and books that explore the topic of migration. This special online exhibit is part of Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: The Making of America Festival.
Poems about Migration
Featured Books
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
A Book of Luminous Things collects over 300 poems, each with a short commentary by the anthology’s editor, Czeslaw Milosz.
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The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry
The poems collected in this anthology, edited and translated by Charles Simic, are a testament to the rich literary heritage of Serbia.
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Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences and Writing in America
This anthology, edited by Nigerian poet Abayomi Animashaun and featuring an introduction by Kazim Ali, includes the work of immigrant poets such as Zubair Ahmed, Kwame Dawes, Rigoberto González, Piotr Gwiazda, Fady Joudah, Ilya Kaminsky, Barbara Jane Reyes, Sun Yung Shin, and Ocean Vuong, among others.
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Our Table of Memories: Food & Poetry of Spirit, Homeland & Tradition
This anthology pairs poems by English Language Learner students about their native foods with recipes by immigrant women working with Project Feast.
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The Poetry of Arab Women
This volume, edited by Nathalie Handal, showcases the work of over eighty accomplished and emerging Arab women poets.
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Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
An anthology of poems about heritage, culture, assimilation, and self-perception, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry features work from a multicultural group of writers who recount their experiences with ethnic and national identity in modern-day America.
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
Eighty poets and over two dozen languages from around the globe are represented in this deceptively portable volume, edited by J. D. McClatchy.
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The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
Collecting together the life work of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali, The Veiled Suite allows readers to witness the poet’s transition from the direct narratives of his earliest work to the passionate and layered lyrics of his later collections.
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Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities by Kazim Ali
The “lyric essays” in this book, part memoir and part travelogue, are deep investigations into the coming-of-age process.
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Afterland by Mai Der Vang
The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award, Afterland tells the personal story of Vang’s family as well as the cultural story of the Hmong people and their exodus from Laos.
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