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| Academy of American Poets Announces 2025 Poetry Fund Grant Recipients | New York, NY (July 16, 2025)—In alliance with Amazon Literary Partnership, the Academy of American Poets announces the 2025 recipients of the Poetry Fund grants, which are provided annually to poetry organi | |
| The Academy of American Poets Opens Search for President and Executive Director and Congratulates Ricardo Maldonado on His Visionary Leadership | New York, NY (July 2, 2025)—The Academy of American Poets announced that Ricardo Maldonado, President and Executive Director, will step down at the end of his second year in office. | |
| Brenda Hillman to Judge 2026 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the Nation’s Most Generous First-Book Prize for Poetry | New York, NY (June 17, 2025)—The Academy of American Poets, a leading champion of poets and poetry in the United States, announces former Academy Chancellor and celebrated poet Brenda Hillman as the judge o | |
| Aaron Coleman to Judge 2026 Ambroggio Prize | 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. | |
| Applications Open for 2025–26 Poetry Coalition Fellowships | The Poetry Coalition—a national alliance of nearly thirty organizations working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture—is accepting applications for its 2025–26 Fellowship Program, open to | |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces the Winners of the 2025 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | New York, NY (April 22, 2025)—Poems have long served as a powerful means to offer an urgent form of advocacy through language, bridging the gap between knowledge and response and drawing on the tools of ima | |
| Poetry Fund Accepting Applications for Grants to be Awarded in 2025 | New York, NY (April 7, 2025)—In alliance with the Amazon Literary Partnership, the Academy of American Poets invites poetry organizations and presses to submit applications for grants from the Poetry Fund, | |
| The Guggenheim Museum Announces Traci Brimhall as Its 2025 Poet-in-Residence | New York, NY (April 7, 2025)—The Guggenheim New York, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, welcomes Traci Brimhall as the Poet-in-Residence for 2025. | |
| Alberto Ríos Selects Daniel Moysaenko as the Winner of the 2025 Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award | New York, NY (March 31, 2025)—The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Daniel Moysaenko has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Fi | |
| Join Readers and Poets Worldwide as the Academy of American Poets Celebrates National Poetry Month | Events include a star-studded virtual benefit with Stephen King, Fran Lebowitz, Tony Kushner, Morgan Spector, and other celebrity readers; a month of daily poems; an online literary seminar; a |