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| Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Poems in Translation Contest | The Academy of American Poets and Words Without Borders are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2020 Poems in Translation Contest, whose four winning translated poems were selected by the editors of… | |
| Maira Kalman and Renée Watson to Judge 2021 National Poetry Month Poster Competition for Students | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that renowned illustrator Maira Kalman and New York Times-bestselling YA author and poet Renée Watson will judge the 2021 National Poetry Month… | |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces Judges of Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that climate solutions leader Katharine K. Wilkinson and poet Camille T. Dungy will judge the 2021 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, the Academy’s… | |
| Ten Organizations to Receive Grants From the Academy of American Poets | This summer, thanks to a collaboration between the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets who made recommendations and its Board of Directors who raised the funds, the following ten organizations will each receive a $5… | |
| 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.… | |
| 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… | |
| 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.… | |
| 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… | |
| 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… | |
| 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 |