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Opportunity Alert: Seeking women writers under 30 in the NYC region. Poets & Writers presents the Amy Award each year to recognize promising women poets, age 30 and under, living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive a modest honorarium and give a reading in New York City. The award was established in 1995 by Paula Trachtman and Edward Butscher of East Hampton, New York, in memory of Ms. Trachtman’s daughter, Amy Rothholz, an actor and poet.
“For A Poet”
I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth,
And laid them away in a box of gold;
Where long will cling the lips of the moth,
I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth;
I hide no hate; I am not even wroth
Who found the earth’s breath so keen and cold;
I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth,
And laid them away in a box of gold.
—Countee Cullen
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen (born today in 1903; d.1946).
Pick up My Soul’s High Song : The Collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance at Brentwood by clicking here. We also have the Spoken Arts Treasury, a CD with 100 American Poets reading their own Poetry. Countee Cullen is on the CD, reading his poem Heritage.
