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| Title | Content | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Announcing the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | We are pleased to announce the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, which will honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present, in partnership with… | Aug 15, 2019 |
| Presenting the Academy of American Poets' 2019 Fall–Winter Season | We are pleased to announce our 2019 Fall–Winter Season, which will run from September through February and include readings and panel discussions by the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets; a conversation series… | Aug 13, 2019 |
| 2020 National Poetry Month Poster Contest for Students | We are pleased to announce that renowned graphic memoirist and comic book artist Alison Bechdel and former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will judge the 2020 National Poetry Month Poster Contest for Students. The… | Aug 6, 2019 |
| Harryette Mullen to Judge 2020 Walt Whitman Award | We are pleased to announce that Harryette Mullen will judge the 2020 Walt Whitman Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry. The winner of the Whitman Award will receive $5,000, publication by Graywolf… | Jul 18, 2019 |
| Marie Ponsot (1921 - 2019) | We are saddened to learn that Academy Chancellor Emeritus Marie Ponsot has passed away at the age of 98. About her work, poet and critic Susan Stewart has said: "What she has written of her relation to the night sky—‘it… | Jul 8, 2019 |
| The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Features Poetry and the Academy of American Poets in their 2018 Annual Report | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation features poetry and the Academy of American Poets in their 2018 Annual Report. As Elizabeth Alexander, President of the Mellon Foundation, writes: “Poetry is small, it is portable, it is… | Jul 2, 2019 |
| Academy Chancellor Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate | The Academy of American Poets congratulates Joy Harjo on being named our nation’s newest Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress and Librarian Carla Hayden. Harjo, who was elected an Academy Chancellor earlier this year,… | Jun 19, 2019 |
| The Academy of American Poets, Lambda Literary, and The Poetry Project to Co-Present a Special Poetry Reading in New York City to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising | The Academy of American Poets, Lambda Literary, and The Poetry Project will co-present the Stonewall 50 Reading to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City on June 26, 2019 at 6:30 pm at St… | Jun 17, 2019 |
| The Academy of American Poets Awarded $20,000 Grant from the Library of Congress to Feature New Primary Sources in Teach This Poem Series | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that it has received a $20,000 grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program to feature new primary sources from the Library's collection in… | Jun 11, 2019 |
| Poem-a-Day to Feature Winning Poems from new Words Without Borders Translation Contest | Words Without Borders, a content partner of the Academy of American Poets, has launched a new Poems in Translation Contest to celebrate the art of translating poetry. The winning poems will be co-published in Poem-a-Day this… | May 28, 2019 |