New York, NY (March 27, 2023)—The poet laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, has selected twenty new poems by contemporary poets to be featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series as part of a collaboration with the Library of Congress, and as a special offering this April, which is National Poetry Month.
Among the poets selected by Limón to be featured in April are National Book Award-nominated poet and Guggenheim Fellow Victoria Chang; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and MacArthur Fellow Natalie Diaz; National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Carl Phillips; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Guggenheim Fellow Diane Seuss; and Wallace Stegner Fellow Paul Tran; as well as other acclaimed poets.