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| Title | Content | Date |
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| Poem-a-Day Top Source of Selected Work for the 2021 Edition of Best American Poetry | The Academy of American Poets is honored to announce that Poem-a-Day, the organization’s daily digital poetry series featuring previously unpublished work by today’s poets, is the number one source of selected work for the… | Oct 7, 2021 |
| Announcing Nikki Grimes and Rafael López as the Judges for the 2022 Student Poster Contest for National Poetry Month | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Rafael López, New York Times-bestselling illustrator and artist, and Nikki Grimes, New York Times-bestselling author and poet and recipient of the 2020 ALAN Award for… | Sep 29, 2021 |
| The Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, and National Book Foundation to Provide $4.3 Million in Second Round of Emergency Funding for Literary Organizations and Publishers | The three national nonprofit literary arts organizations that launched the Literary Arts Emergency Fund (LAEF) last year—the Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), and National Book… | Sep 29, 2021 |
| Presenting The Academy of American Poets Fall–Winter Season | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to present its Fall–Winter Season, which will be entirely virtual and run from October 2021 through February 2022. Programs include a conversation series with the Academy of American… | Sep 23, 2021 |
| Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Poems in Translation Contest | The Academy of American Poets and Words Without Borders are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2021 Poems in Translation Contest, whose two winning translated poems were selected by the editors of Words Without… | Sep 20, 2021 |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces the Winners of the 2021 American Poets Prizes | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 American Poets Prizes, which are among the most valuable and venerable poetry prizes in the United States. This year the organization has awarded… | Sep 15, 2021 |
| The Poetry Coalition Announces its 2021–2022 Fellows | The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations, is pleased to present its second cohort of the Poetry Coalition Fellowship program. These five individuals have been selected to receive paid fellowships, each at… | Sep 13, 2021 |
| Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali and Alexis Pauline Gumbs to Judge 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that environmental thought-leader and activist Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs will judge the 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, the Academy’… | Sep 9, 2021 |
| The Academy of American Poets is Now Accepting Submissions for the 2022 Ambroggio Prize, Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize | We are accepting submissions for the | Sep 9, 2021 |
| Tyehimba Jess to Judge Academy of American Poets First Book Award | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess will judge the 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry. The… | Jul 26, 2021 |