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Explore the work of fresh, contemporary writers whose work could fit perfectly into your course
Teach the US Poet Laureates! Check out information about them here.
US Poet Laureate 2022-2023: Ada Limón
US Youth Poet Laureate 2022-2023: Alyssa Gaines
Check out these current writers too–they teach beautifully!
HANIF ABDURRAQIB
QUIQUE AVILES
MILLER OBERMAN
AGHA SHAHID ALI
MARILYN NELSON
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US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
Resources
Library of Congress Site on Ada Limón
Video with Ada Limón Talking about Her Role as Poet Laureate
Ada Limón Website … and Twitter Account
Limon’s Page at the Poetry Foundation
Selected Poems
“Bright Dead Things”
“Instructions on Not Giving Up”
“The Unspoken”
US Youth Poet Laureate Alyssa Gaines
Video of Alyssa Gaines at the Kennedy Center
Selected Poems
Interview with Alyssa Gaines with audio of her reading from “Lagrimas Negras”
HANIF ABDURRAQIB
Author’s website
“For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks of Connecticut” (audio)
“Poems from an Email Exchange”
“I Don’t Know Any Longer Why the Flags Are At Half Staff”
MacArthur Foundation Fellow Reel
“The Crown Ain’t Worth Much” (video reading)
Author Website
From “A Wreath for Emmett Till”
“Fingers Remember” (visual poem)
“How I Discovered Poetry”
“On Trans”
Reading of “On Trans” (video)
Interview about and audio recording of “On Trans”
“Taharah”
“Commas”
NPR Author Reading and Interview
“The Immigrant Museum”
Author biography
“At the Museum”
“Even the Rain”
“Veiled Threats” (with Izhar Patkin; video)
“All That Offers a Happy Ending is a Fairy Tale”
“Kinder Than Solitude”
“Under the Magnolia”
