The Academy's goals are to bring attention to the great work of poets in the past and today.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Yet,so many years after her death, she remains one of America's greatest poets.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Today we tell about Walt Whitman, one of America's greatest poets.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22