April 1, 2021
Dear Friends of Poetry Daily,
Thank you for your enthusiastic support throughout the last year. What a year it has been! It’s hard to believe that the daffodils are blooming and Poetry Month is here once again.
To celebrate we are featuring our second annual 30Presses/30Poets
(#ArmchairBookFair21), a feature we initiated last year to help promote new releases whose publicity opportunities were thwarted due to the pandemic. This year we will again highlight work from poets both established and up-and-coming and promote a diversity of presses. For many of the poems we feature this month you will find links to videos of poets reading their work on Poetry Daily’s new YouTube channel. We hope you will enjoy.
We also are eager to announce Phillip B. Williams as a new member of our Editorial Board, the diverse group of practicing poets who select poems, advise, and contribute essays for Poetry Daily. Phillip B. Williams is from Chicago, Illinois. He has received a 2017 Whiting Award, the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a 2017 Lambda Literary Award, a 2021 Literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. He currently teaches at Bennington College and is a member of the founding faculty for the Randolph College low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing.
Please join us Friday, April 9 at 8pm ET, for a reading featuring Phillip B. Williams, as well as Editorial Board members Amaud Jamaul Johnson, whose new collection Imperial Liquor was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Heather Green, author of No Other Rome, recently released by University of Akron Press. |
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The Poetry Daily team anticipates new features and wider outreach over the next year. We are planning an internationally sourced What Sparks Poetry series on poetry and climate change. We are expanding our "Building Community" interview series, also, and nurturing connections with poets and readers locally, in Fairfax, Virginia. As I have mentioned recently, although Poetry Daily is now housed at George Mason University, we remain an independent non-profit and our sustenance depends on your support."
We are grateful for donations, large and small, whether one time gifts or monthly subscriptions. Another very simple way to show your support is to purchase books, whether or not you have discovered them on Poetry Daily, by using our virtual bookstore on Bookshop.
Thank you so much for your attention and support. We hope to see you Friday the 9th.
With gratitude,
Sally Keith
Editorial Director
Please celebrate National Poetry month with us and make a gift to Poetry Daily. |
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