“All poets who receive an Academy of American Poets Prize are strongly promoted, including features in American Poets magazine, on social media, and, of course, on Poets.org.”  [from Academy of American Poets website]

Fanny Howe fancies the sullen Bollingen, tenebrous it goes.
Lisa Robertson wants the deep and chary Pulitzer, umbral it flows.
Kent Johnson yearns for the turbid Pushcart, the color of brown stones.
Joseph Kaplan is friending.

Trisha Low covets the turbulent Rense, effulgent it crashes and clangs.
Daniel Borzutzky fancies the diffident Shahitya Akademi, its guttering light.
Jenny Zhang desea el Pulitzer, poderosamente fluyendo.
Simone White is friending.

Jow Lindsay has the jones for the frozen Newdigate, lambent it glows.
Camille Dungy aspires to the inscrutable Bobbitt, iridian and candescent.
Jeff Derksen desires the gray Gaisford, phlegmatic and demure.
Kenneth Goldsmith is unfriending.

Aaron Kunin thirsts for the Aiken Taylor; blue and languorous it flows.
Eleni Sikelianos hungers for the Agha Shahid Ali; it slumbers across the bluish land.
Prageeta Sharma longs for the Lannan, its alluvia mounded and blue.
Felix Bernstein is trending.

Joshua Clover has a yen for the quiet Lilly, cretaceous and blanched.
Wendy Trevino desires the Golden Wreath of Struga, shattered beneath the sun.
Mei-mei Bersenbrugge wishes for the Adonais, flaring beneath the sun.
Dawn Lundy Martin is unfriending.

Rodrigo Toscano desires the Val Vallis, gurgling caliginous in its moxie runs.
Keith Waldrop veut pour le Kim-Su-yông, pris dans la glace.
Laura Moriarty covets the parlous Kavanagh, full of ominous, virescent stones.
CA Conrad is friending.

Clayton Eshleman has a thing for the Elder; fauna lapping its parched pools.
The gay Montreal overwhelms its quaint eyots; Anna Moshovakis has eyes for it.
Lisa Samuels covets the Alice James; a tributary of the Hawley, it rolls on.
Heriberto Yépez is friending.

The Chelsea is lined with runes and ancient trash; Paisley Rekdal dreams of it.
The broad Laughlin shores its ruins against the pylons; C.S. Giscombe desires it.
Urayoán Noel is bent on the Castagnola; huge structures collapse to saturnine foams.
Marjorie Perloff is unfriending.

Alice Notley wants the swollen Rattle, achronic and beclouded.
Joan Retallack hankers after the Hardison, dredged and deep.
Rod Smith craves the icy Starrett, serpentine and blue.
Afrah Mohammad Nasser is a blackened stump.

Pierre Joris desires the Forward, pushing bravely along.
Jennifer Moxley covets the Wallace Stevens, pushing against its leaden banks.
Jennifer Scappettone hungers for the Lenore Marshall, its banks carmine rose at dusk.
Lugwa Mutah has been dragged into the forest.

Kim Rosenfield wants the brooding Brittingham; indifferent it flows.
The Sandeen is clotted with ice; Noah Eli Gordon has an itch for it.
Michael Palmer désire le NBA, ses eaux implacables dévalant les pistes.
Kevin Young is trending.

Charles Simic has eyes for the Vennum, its dependable velocities.
Susan Stewart wants the Isabella Gardner, obsidian as tar it goes.
Craig Dworkin begehrt die starke und leise Nobel. 
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye is on fire.

Rachel Blau Du Plessis wishes for the Bridport, boats crashed against its stones.
John Coletti sueña con el Amy Lowell, susurrando sus secretos sin cesar.
Yunte Huang has a yen for the Eliot, vatic amidst factories and debris.
Tracy Smith is trending.

The concupiscent Braude breaks its chamois banks; Dale Smith wants it.
The Alain-Grandbois is full of undertows; Carla Harryman pines for it.
The Wilhelm Busch ist mit Logs gestaute; Bob Perelman es wünscht.
Comfort Habila is chained to a bed.

The Griffin roars its song in lateritious freshets; Sawako Nakayasu is mad for it.
The Ballymaloe eats its loam banks in chunks; David Buuck wants it.
The Neruda is red beneath the clanging sun; Johannes Göransson is hot for it.
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh is a blackened stump.

Ada Limón fancies the vestal Whitman, singing its flows through weird pools.
Erica Kaufman yearns for the plaintive Bynner, trailing its hoary foam in snags.
The lonely Crab Orchard crashes against the dikes; Edwin Torres yearns for it.
Azizul Wahab has lost his family and his head.

Tyrone Williams desires the narrow Loewe, caliginous and bright it goes.
Arielle Greenberg wants the solemn Cervantes, great oaks shading its quartz shoals.
Your Name wishes for the lightsome Jenko, though it is encased in ice.
Kauna Lalai has been dragged into the forest.

Lisa Jarnot yearns for the Sarton; pale and hypnotic it rushes.
The Sawtooth is slow blue smoke; Brenda Iijima aches for it.
The banks of the Confrontation are aflame; Rachel Zolf fancies it.
Don Share is resigning.

The Frogmore breathes its poison mists; Stephanie Young has the jones for it.
The Pollak sucks and pools its wacked-out flows; Kaplan Harris hankers for it.
Maggie O’ Sullivan wants the riley Faber; it churns up houses and cars in flooded eddies.
Mashooq Jan is vaporized in the sun.

The Rabindra Puraskar does not dry in the terrible sun; Chris Hosea craves it.
Rosmarie Waldrop desires the crazy Nobel; its turgid depths are full of crazy things.
Amy Catanzano wants the wild Vilenica; it washes huge metallic things out to sea.
Glory Yaga is missing and enslaved.

The Shapcott blows up and kayaks go flying; Thomas Devaney thirsts for it.
The Leven is silent and etiolated, like bread; Warshan Shire dreams of it.
Michael Boughn hungers for the Lampman; light streaks through it like drugs or hair.
The Poetry Foundation is trending.

Pindar Nuhu craves the Griffin.
Qari Alamzeb dreams of the Bollingen.
Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser fancies the Pulitzer.
Shehzad Gul wants the MacArthur.
Abedal Ghani Mohammed Mabkhout hungers for the Lilly.
Maryamu Yakubu longs for the Nobel.
Shfika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed thirsts for the Faber.
Mabrook Mouqbal al Qadari has the jones for the Golden Wreath of Struga.

John Ashbery, for no reason, becomes a pillar of fire.

Names of Poetry Prizes from various nations are taken from Wikipedia; names of young women kidnapped by Boko Haram and those of children killed by drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen are from the Daily Mail newspaper and from the Centre for Research on Globalization.