Academy of American Poets and the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award.

Ríos currently serves as the

inaugural state poet laureate of Arizona , as well as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He
lives in Tempe, Arizona. Arthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Compass Rose
(Copper Canyon Press, 2014). His honors include an American Book Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize
from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and a Western States Book Award for
Translation. Sze currently serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and he was the first
poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives. Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of
three poetry books: Light (2013), Found (2007), and Small Arguments (2003). She has read her poems at
the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and has been in residence at Yaddo. Jean Valentine is the
author of several poetry collections, including Shirt in Heaven (Copper Canyon Press, 2015). She is the
recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her other honors
include the National Book Award and the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America.
She lives in New York City. C. D. Wright was the author of several poetry collections, including ShallCross
(Copper Canyon Press, 2016) and One With Others (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), which received the
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Among her numerous honors are a
Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Award. Wright served as state poet of Rhode Island from 1994 to
1999, and in 2013, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She passed away in
January 2016. Anna Yin is Mississauga’s inaugural poet laureate and is the author of seven poetry books,
including Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac (2015) and Nightlights (2017), both published by Black
Moss Press. Yin won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTY Awards, a 2013 Professional
Achievement Award from the Cross-cultural Professionals Association of Canada, and two scholarships
from the West Chester University Poetry Conference. Her poems have appeared in Arc Poetry, The New
York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, World Journal, and Poetry East West. She teaches Poetry Alive at
colleges, schools, and libraries. www.annapoetry.com Poems to Share from the Public Domain
Spellbound by Emily Brontë Oread by H. D. Wild Nights—Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson Holy Sonnet 14
by John Donne Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar Design by Robert Frost Bright Star by John
Keats The Tropics of New York by Claude McKay Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay Anthem
for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Storm Ending by Jean Toomer
Song of Myself, I by Walt Whitman A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth The Lake Isle of
Innisfree by W. B. Yeats For biographies of these poets, visit www.poets.org. The night is darkening
round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The
giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow. And the storm is fast descending, And yet
I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move
me; I will not, cannot go. Spellbound Emily Brontë Poem in Your Pocket Day This poem is in the public
domain. For more poems visit www.poets.org. Whirl up, sea— Whirl your pointed pines. Splash your
great pines On our rocks. Hurl your green over us— Cover us with your pools of fir. Oread H. D. Poem in
Your Pocket Day This poem is in the public domain. For more poems visit www.poets.org. Wild Nights —
Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile — the winds — To a heart in port
— Done with the compass — Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden — Ah, the sea! Might I moor —
Tonight — In thee! Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson Poem in Your Pocket Day This poem is in
the public domain. For more poems visit www.poets.org. Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurped town, to another due, Labour to
admit you, but Oh, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves