The Postcard Archive provides a glimpse into the Academy of American Poets mailbag at 75 Maiden Lane. Browse postcards and ephemera sent from Sherman Alexie, Henri Cole, Brenda Hillman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds & more.
Advice to Young Poets

At the 2012 AWP Conference, poets who stopped by the Academy of American Poets's table were asked to deliver a piece of advice for younger poets. Below is a sample of these helpful gems of wisdom:


Samuel Amadon
Rae Armantrout
Dan Bellm

Sophie Cabot Black
Tina Chang
Heather Christle

Wyn Cooper
Eduardo Corral
Cynthia Cruz

Rita Dove
Ben Fama
Jessica Fisher

Dobby Gibson
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Eloise Klein Healy

Amy lawless
Philip Levine
Randall Mann

K. Silem Mohammad
Joyelle McSweeney


Mark Wunderlich

Nathaniel Otting
Kathleen Ossip
Carl Phillips

Elizabeth Robinson
James Shea
Terese Svoboda

Stacy Szymaszek		 Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Summer Flings

Check out these correspondences from the dog days of summer:


Sherman Alexie
Robin Becker
Laynie Browne

Henri Cole
Graham Foust
Kate Greenstreet

Brenda Hillman
David Lehman
Dana Levin

E. Ethelbert Miller
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Naomi Shihab Nye

Sharon Olds
Srikanth Reddy
Evie Shockley

Arthur Sze
G. C. Waldrep
Crystal Williams
 

 

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