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Today's Poem-of-the-Day at the Academy of American Poets is "Immortality" by Craig Morgan Teicher. On his Facebook page, Teicher calls the poem a "weird prose piece from a new project." We thought we'd share it with you. Immortality I feel like Emily Dickinson did, running her pale finger over each blade of grass, then caressing each root in the depths of the earth's primeval dirt, each tip tickling heaven's soft underbelly. I feel like Emily alone in her room, her hands folded neatly in her lap, waiting forever for one of those two daguerreotypes to embalm her precious soul. At...

Many congratulations to BOA poet Craig Morgan Teicher for having his poem "The Prince of Rivers" featured as Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre’s weekly poem! The Centre selected the poem from Teicher’s Fall 2012 release To Keep Love Blurry. The Prince of Rivers In the land of rivers I was the prince of rivers. In the land of houses I lived in a thousand houses. In the land of scattered bones my bones were scattered by worshipful princes who carried each one like a scepter. I was there and a breeze eddied around me. In the land of questions I was...

Calling all poets: it's time to tweet all about it! The New York Public Library is holding its first-ever National Poetry Contest on Twitter from March 1 - March 10, in celebration of National Poetry Month. The NYPL is encouraging all Twitter users 13-and-older to register for the contest and post at least three poems on Twitter using the @NYPL handle. "The poems can cover any topic of the entrant’s choice, but at least one of the three poems needs to be about libraries, books, reading, or New York City." Once the contest has closed, a panel of judges including...

The 2013 AWP Conference and Bookfair is less than one week away, and BOA is so excited to be there, again. During this year's conference, we are honored to be celebrating the legacy of Lucille Clifton with our Saturday panel “Come Celebrate with Us: The Multiple Legacies of Lucille Clifton,” and hope that you can join us for this wonderful tribute. Also taking place will be BOA author signings at the BOA tables (i21, i22, and i23) with Douglas Watson (The Era of Not Quite), Hugh Martin (The Stick Soldiers), Lucille Clifton's daughters (The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010),...

[caption id="attachment_2162" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths[/caption] One of the amazing parts of publishing The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 has been seeing how many lives she touched – deeply, indelibly – throughout her career. In many ways, Lucille was the rarest of poetry birds: a poet respected by her peers, but also beloved by readers across the world. Ever since word got out about the publication of her Collected, people have reached out to BOA to share their enthusiasm for her poetry and their stories (often as humorous as they are touching) about encounters with Lucille....