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| 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… | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Curates Poem-a-Day Series in Honor of National Poetry Month 2020 | The poet laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo, has selected twenty-two new poems by contemporary poets to be featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series as a special offering this April, which is… | |
| Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize Announcement Moved to April 2020 | We will be announcing the winners of the inaugural Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize on April 22, 2020, which is Earth Day. This date has been changed from March 19. All applicants will be notified of the results by April… | |
| Poem-a-Day to Feature New Work Inspired by #PoetryandProtest and the Centennial of the 19th Amendment | We are pleased to announce that on each Saturday in March, the Poem-a-Day series will feature a new poem that was commissioned for Project 19, the New York Philharmonic’s initiative to mark the centennial of the 19th Amend | |
| Poetry Coalition to Offer Programs on the Theme "I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing: Poetry & Protest" | This March, the more than 25 organizations nationwide that compose the Poetry Coalition will launch “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing: Poetry & Protest”, the coalition’s fourth annual programming initiative. | |
| Love Poems for Valentine's Day | Poets.org invites you to share love poems this Valentine’s Day. Selections from our collection for the upcoming occasion include classic and contemporary poems by W. H. | |
| Academy Receives $4.5 Million Grant to Support Poets Laureate | The Academy of American Poets has received what is believed to be the largest grant ever made by a philanthropic institution to support poets in the United States—$4.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The… | |
| Dorianne Laux and Kevin Young Named Academy of American Poets Chancellors | Distinguished poets Dorianne Laux and Kevin Young have been elected to the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors, a distinction shared by just 115 poets since the board was formed in 1946.… |