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New York, NY (September 15, 2021)— The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 American Poets Prizes, which are among the most valuable and venerable poetry prizes in the United States. This year the […]
The Poetry Society of America is pleased to announce that Toi Derricotte is the 2020 recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. Please read the full announcement at The Poetry Society of America.
Poet Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is published by Algonquin Books this month. Of his new collection of essays, Tracy K. Smith writes, “Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small […]
I lost so much of the world’s beauty, as if I were watching every shining gift on its branch with one eye. Because I was hungry. Because I was waiting to eat, a self crawling about the world in search […]
I New & Selected By Toi Derricotte How do you gain access to the power of parts of yourself you abhor, and make them sing with beauty, tenderness, and compassion? This is a record of fifty years of victories in […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toi Derricotte debuts The Undertaker’s Daughter in New York City Award-winning Poet Reads at The New School & Conducts Master Class in DUMBO Brooklyn, NY (January 27, 2012)—Cave Canem Foundation, North America’s premier home for black […]
New York, January 17—Tree Swenson, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, announced that Toi Derricotte, Jane Hirshfield, and Arthur Sze have been elected to the Board of Chancellors, the Academy’s advisory board of distinguished poets. tderricotteThe new Chancellors […]