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<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(24,24,24);font-weight:normal;padding:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;line-height:21px"><span></span></h1></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Education | Academy of American Poets</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:education@poets.org">education@poets.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:02 PM<br>Subject: Poems for Black History Month and Valentine’s Day<br>To: Margaret Clifford <<a href="mailto:peggyclifford@gmail.com">peggyclifford@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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Of Lucille Clifton’s “<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-k/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">won’t you celebrate with me</a>,” the poet Safiya Sinclair writes, “What a balm and a blessing this poem has been to me.” We asked Sinclair and eleven other contemporary poets <a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-u/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">to share the poems they recommend reading during Black History Month, and why</a>. Here are a few: </p>
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“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-o/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">We Real Cool</a>” by Gwendolyn Brooks<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-b/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">American History</a>” by Michael S. Harper<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-n/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">Let America Be America Again</a>” by Langston Hughes<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-c/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">Coherence in Consequence</a>” by Claudia Rankine<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-q/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">On Being Brought from Africa to America</a>” by Phillis<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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To plan your classroom’s celebration, browse essays on literary milestones and movements, find important books on black history and poetics, look for lesson plans for Black History Month, read archival letters from classic African American poets, and search poems about the African American experience by both classic and contemporary poets.</p>
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Valentine’s Day is also around the corner—and what better way to celebrate than with poetry? Browse <a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-g/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">our selections of love poems</a> and <a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-w/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">poems about friendship</a> to read and to share, including these classic and contemporary favorites:<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-yd/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">It’s all I have to bring today (26)</a>” by Emily Dickinson<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-yh/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">Heart to Heart</a>” by Rita Dove<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-yk/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">For Keeps</a>” by Joy Harjo<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
“<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-yu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">Yours</a>” by Daniel Hoffman<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach.” In <a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-jy/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">the lesson plan “Love as a Two-Way Street</a>,” students learn more about this poet’s loving marriage to Robert Browning and write love poems of their own. </p>
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Encourage your students to interact directly with poets through this year’s <a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-jk/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;vertical-align:baseline;color:white!important;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px" target="_blank">Dear Poet</a> project, featuring Alberto Ríos and seven other poets from our Board of Chancellors.</p>
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You can request or download a free copy of <a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-tr/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">the 2019 National Poetry Month poster</a>, designed by a high school student for the first time.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Your students are invited to write letters to eight award-winning poets through <a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-ty/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">the 2019 Dear Poet project</a>.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail19.com/t/y-l-kkjdldt-jildkluuju-tj/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important" target="_blank">Poem in Your Pocket Day</a> will take place on Thursday, April 18.</li>
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