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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Poems for the Open Road: Poets on Travel, Vacation

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July 25, 2017

Songs of the Open Road

 

Head to the airport, the train station, or the open road to journey to places new and familiar with these poems about travel and vacation.

 

"Song for Lonely Roads" by Sherwood Anderson
"Cattails" by Nikky Finney
"Souvenir" by Beth Ann Fennelly
"Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City" by Jennifer Grotz
"The Decorative Airport Fern Is Not What It Pretends to Be" by Jennifer L. Knox
"And the Trains Go On" by Philip Levine
"Postcard from Rockport" by April Lindner
"The Road from Biloxi" by Khaled Mattawa
"Window Seat: Providence to New York City" by Jacqueline Osherow
"Song of the Open Road, I" by Walt Whitman

Read more travel poems.

Read more poems about vacations.

Read poems about landscapes.

Poets via Post: Summer Vacation

 

How do poets spend their vacations? Browse through Poets via Post, our collection of summer postcards written and illustrated by poets.

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Across the Country in Poems

 

Take a cross-country trip to our country's national parks by reading the poems in our Imagine Our Parks with Poems project, in which we commissioned poets to write poems about national parks in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial.

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A Walk through Leaves of Grass

 

Read Allen Ginsberg's essay "Taking a Walk through Leaves of Grass," on Walt Whitman's seminal collection, its expansive, universal scope, and its historical, political, and social contexts.

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In Case You Missed It

 

Donte Collins Publishes Debut Collection
2016 Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award winner Donte Collins releases his first poetry collection, Autopsy (Button Press, 2017).

 

Richard Blanco in Cuba
Education Ambassador Richard Blanco heads to Havana with the CubaOne Foundation.

 

The Academy of American Poets is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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