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| Poetry Coalition Launches “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice” | This year, the 25+ organizations nationwide that comprise the Poetry Coalition will launch “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice,” the coalition’s sixth annual programming initiative. For… | |
| Poetry Fund Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Grants | 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, which will be awarded in 2022. The Amazon… | |
| Love Poems for Valentine’s Day From Poets.org | This Valentine’s Day, the Academy of American Poets, the producer of Poets.org—one of the world’s most popular online resources for poems—invites you to share more love poems. | |
| Carolyn Forché Elected Newest Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets | The Academy of American Poets is honored to announce that Carolyn Forché has been elected its newest Chancellor, a distinction shared by just 120 poets since 1946, when the group was formed to ensure that poets would always… | |
| The Academy of American Poets Invites Students to Participate Virtually in “Dear Poet” 2022, the Organization’s Signature National Poetry Month Program, This April | The Academy of American Poets, the originator of National Poetry Month—now a worldwide celebration—invites students in grades five through twelve to participate in Dear Poet 2022, an annual multimedia education… | |
| Poetry Coalition to Address Disability Justice in a Series of Nationwide Programs in 2022 | The Poetry Coalition, an alliance of more than 25 independent poetry organizations across the United States, will devote 2022 to exploring the theme “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice” in a… | |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces Winner of the 2022 National Poetry Month Poster Contest | The Academy of American Poets, the originator of National Poetry Month, now a worldwide celebration, is happy to announce that eleventh grader Lara Lazar from Saunders Trades and Technical Highschool in Yonkers, New… | |
| Guggenheim Announces First-Ever Poet-In-Residence Initiative in Collaboration with the Academy of American Poets | Poet Taylor Johnson selected for inaugural role for 2022. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, announced today that Taylor Johnson has been selected as the… | |
| Tess O’Dwyer Named New Chair of the Board at The Academy of American Poets | The Academy of American Poets, the largest funder of poets and poetry programs in the U.S., is pleased to announce that Tess O’Dwyer has been named the new Chair of the Board of Directors. O’Dwyer, a nonprofit management… | |
| Announcing the Judges for the 2022 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and 2022 James Laughlin Award | We are pleased to announce that Sawako Nakayasu, Matthew Shenoda, and |