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| Happy National Poetry Month | Although the team at the Academy of American Poets works tirelessly to champion poets and poetry every day of the year, it is in April—National Poetry Month—when we’re especially excited to share educational activities, book… | |
| Join Us at AWP 2018 | Join us at the 2018 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair, from Thursday, March 8, through Saturday, March 10, 2018, at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. | |
| Presenting American Poets in Paris | The Academy of American Poets in New York City and Berkeley Books of Paris are pleased to present a series of readings by American poets in Paris. | |
| Academy of American Poets Launches Ambroggio Prize | We are pleased to launch the first annual Ambroggio Prize, for an unpublished manuscript written originally in Spanish and with an English translation. The winner will receive $1,000, and the manuscript will be published by… | |
| U.S. Poets, Including Four Academy Chancellors, Attend Poetry Festival in Cuba for the First Time in More than Sixty Years | Academy Chancellors Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, David St. John, and Arthur Sze, and former Academy Chancellor Robert Hass, are part of an official contingent of American writers traveling to Cuba for the first time in… | |
| Poets.org Named a 2017 Best Website for Teaching & Learning | We're honored to announce that Poets.org has been named a 2017 Best Website for Teaching & Learning by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association. | |
| Juan Felipe Herrera Selects Jenny Xie as 2017 Walt Whitman Award Recipient | The recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award is Jenny Xie for her manuscript, Eye Level. In his citation, judge Juan Felipe Herrera writes that Xie’s work is a “timely collection of beauty, clarity and expansive humanity.”… | |
| Join Us at AWP 2017 | Join us at the 2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair from Thursday, February 9, through Saturday, February 11, in Was | |
| Poems Are Where We Imagine Freedom | Dear Friends, | |
| Poets.org, the Online Audio Archive | The Academy of American Poets was one of the first organizations in the United States to showcase poets in public readings. |