New York, NY (June 10, 2025)—The Academy of American Poets, a leading champion of poets and poetry in the United States, announces Aaron Coleman as the judge of its 2026 Ambroggio Prize. Established in 2017, the Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication award given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript and accompanying translation will be published in 2027 by The University of Arizona Press, a nationally recognized publisher of both emerging and established voices in Latinx and Indigenous literature.
The Ambroggio Prize is the only annual award of its kind in the United States that honors American poets whose first language is Spanish. Previous winning manuscripts and translations include Toda la tierra es un jardín de monstruos / The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters by Manuel Iris, co-translated by Iris and Kevin C. McHugh (2025); Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours by Octavio Quintanilla, co-translated by Quintanilla and Natalia Treviño (2024); and Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat by Alejandra Quintana Arocho, translated by Margarita Pintado Burgos (2023).
Submissions to the 2026 Ambroggio Prize will be accepted online between June 15 and September 15, 2025 (11:59 p.m. ET). To learn more and submit, visit https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/ambroggio-prize.
About Aaron Coleman
Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, and scholar of the African diaspora. He is the author of Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2025), among other titles, and the translator of Nicolás Guillén’s The Great Zoo (University of Chicago Press, 2024), short-listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. The recipient of support from Cave Canem and the National Endowment for the Arts, Coleman is the postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies at the University of Michigan.
About the Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is the United States’ leading champion of poets and poetry. The organization annually awards more than $1.3 million to poets across the nation. It also operates Poets.org, the world’s largest publicly funded poetry website, and organizes National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. Additionally, the Academy publishes Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine, provides free educational resources for K–12 educators and adult learners, and leads the Poetry Coalition, a network of organizations dedicated to promoting the vital role of poetry in our culture.
About The University of Arizona Press
The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. We disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. The Press advances the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide. Founded in 1959, the Press is a nonprofit publisher of scholarly and regional books. The Press publishes about 55 books annually and has more than 1,600 books in print. These include scholarly titles in anthropology, archaeology, environmental science, history, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, Latin American studies, and the space sciences; as well as award-winning fiction and poetry series’ Sun Tracks and Camino del Sol.