December 16, 2020
The Academy of American Poets Announces Poem-a-Day Guest Editors for 2021
By Indigenous Nations Poets
New York, NY (December 16, 2020)— The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2021. The guest editors are all award-winning poets who represent wide-ranging editorial perspectives and live in eight different states across the country.
The Academy of American Poets Announces the twelve new guest editors for #PoemADay in 2021, who will each curate a month of poems: Fatimah Asghar, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Sasha Pimentel, Jane Hirshfield, Sumita Chakraborty, Anaïs Duplan, R. Erica Doyle, Kazim Ali, Rosa Alcalá, Safiya Sinclair, Kimberly Blaeser, and Ilya Kaminsky.
In-Na-Po
Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po—Indigenous Nations Poets—is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. In-Na-Po recognizes the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages.