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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… | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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… |