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| Poets.org Recommends Poems to Share with Graduates | As the classes of 2020 graduate and celebrate their academic accomplishments virtually, the Academy of American Poets invites you to share some uplifting and encouraging words with this year’s graduating students from a… | May 12, 2020 |
| Poets.org Recommends Poems to Share This Mother's Day | On Mother’s Day this year, we invite you to share a poem from our collection to honor mothers and motherhood. | May 7, 2020 |
| The Academy of American Poets Presents Shelter in Poems: a Virtual Reading | Join us on Thursday, April 30, at 7:30 pm EDT, for Shelter In Poems: a Virtual Reading, our first-ever virtual poetry reading. | Apr 23, 2020 |
| Announcing the First-Ever Winners of the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | Congratulations to the winners of our first-ever Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, which honors exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment. | Apr 21, 2020 |
| Poem-a-Day to Feature Winning Poems of Words Without Borders' 2020 Poems in Translation Contest | We are pleased to announce the 2020 Poems in Translation Contest produced by Words Without Borders—the digital magazine for international literature and a content partner of the Academy—to spotlight groundbreaking work by | Apr 9, 2020 |
| Coalition of Arts Funders Launches Emergency Relief Fund for Artists & Writers Impacted by COVID-19 Outbreak | To help artists and writers affected by COVID-19, we have joined forces with our community to form Artist Relief, a new national, multidisciplinary initiative offering immediate individual grants of $5,000 to those in need | Apr 8, 2020 |
| Update About 2020 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize & James Laughlin Award | Presses and publishers may now submit online to the 2020 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, given to the most outstanding book of 2019, and to the 2020 James Laughlin Award, given to recognize and support a second book… | Apr 6, 2020 |
| National Poetry Month 2020 | Happy National Poetry Month! This April, we are more committed than ever to doing everything we can to bring poetry to the widest possible audience. We're pleased to offer activities, initiatives, and resources, which have… | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Academy of American Poets Announces Virtual Programs for National Poetry Month 2020 | Tomorrow, April 1, marks the beginning of National Poetry Month, an occasion launched by the Academy of American Poets to remind the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. | Mar 31, 2020 |
| Harryette Mullen Selects Threa Almontaser's The Wild Fox of Yemen for 2020 Walt Whitman Award | We are pleased to announce that Harryette Mullen has selected Threa Almontaser as the recipient of the 2020 Walt Whitman Award, the nation’s most valuable first-book prize for a poet, for her manuscript, The Wild Fox o | Mar 30, 2020 |