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| The Academy of American Poets to Offer "Teach This Poem" Series Adapted for Different Learning Models | As teachers and families prepare for remote, in-person, and hybrid learning models for the 2020-2021 school year, the Academy of American Poets has adapted its award-winning Teach This Poem series to help. Originally… | Aug 17, 2020 |
| One Poem: The Poetry Coalition's Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives | The founding members of the Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations from across the United States, are honored to present One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives on Tuesday, August 18 at 8 pm… | Aug 12, 2020 |
| Remembering John Lewis’s Favorite Lines of Poetry | Five years ago during National Poetry Month, the Academy of American Poets reached out to late Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis, among other public figures, to ask him to share his favorite lines of poetry. … | Jul 21, 2020 |
| Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, and National Book Foundation Provide $3.5 Million in Emergency Funding | Three national nonprofit literary arts organizations—the Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazine and Presses, and National Book Foundation—have come together in a historic collaboration to establish The… | Jul 17, 2020 |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces New Poem-a-Day Guest Editors | The Academy of American Poets is honored to announce six new guest editors for Poem-a-Day, the organization’s daily poetry series, who will each select work by contemporary Black poets to be featured in the publication on… | Jun 16, 2020 |
| The Academy of American Poets Receives Works Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $75,000 Art Works grant in the literature category from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), one of 1,015 grants nationwide in this cate | Jun 10, 2020 |
| The Academy of American Poets Awards $1+ Million to Poets Laureate | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce its 2020 Poet Laureate Fellows. These 23 individuals serve as poets laureate of states, cities, counties, and the Navajo Nation and will be leading civic poetry programs… | May 28, 2020 |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces 2020 Poetry Fund Grantees | In alliance with the Amazon Literary Partnership (ALP), the Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of the Poetry Fund grants, which are provided annually to poetry organizations and presses that… | May 27, 2020 |
| The Poetry Coalition Launches Fellowship Program | The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations coordinated by the Academy of American Poets, is pleased to announce that it has launched the Poetry Coalition Fellowship program, a three-year pilot program that… | May 22, 2020 |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces Partnership With University of Arizona Press | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce a new partnership with the University of Arizona Press in Tucson, Arizona. Beginning in 2020, recipients of the organization’s Ambroggio Prize will have their winning… | May 21, 2020 |