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| Academy of American Poets Names its First Latino Executive Director and President, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, in Historic Appointment | The Academy of American Poets, a leading publisher of contemporary poetry and funder of poets in the United States, is pleased to announce that it has selected Ricardo Alberto Maldonado to be its next Executive Director and… | Jun 21, 2023 |
| Victoria Chang to Judge 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book Award | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Victoria Chang will judge the 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry. The winner will receive $5,000… | Jun 13, 2023 |
| Academy of American Poets to Receive $65,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts | The Academy of American Poets announced today that it has been awarded a $65,000 grant in the literary arts category from the National Endowment for the Arts' (NEA) Grants for Arts Projects program. The grant will provide… | May 25, 2023 |
| Academy of American Poets Announces 2023 Winners of Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | New York, NY (April 20, 2023)—In honor of Earth Day, which will take place on April 22, the Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the 2023 winners of the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, which honors… | Apr 20, 2023 |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces Programs for National Poetry Month, the Largest Literary Celebration in the World | New York, NY (March 30, 2023)—Saturday, April 1 marks the beginning of the 27th annual National Poetry Month, an occasion established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 to celebrate the integral role that poets and… | Mar 30, 2023 |
| Eduardo C. Corral Selects Sara Daniele Rivera as Winner of 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award | Eduardo C. Corral has selected Sara Daniele Rivera’s manuscript The Blue Mimes as the recipient of the 2023 Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for a poet. Rivera’s… | Mar 28, 2023 |
| U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Selects Twenty Poems for Poem-a-Day Series in Honor of National Poetry Month | The poet laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, has selected twenty new poems by contemporary poets to be featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series as part of a collaboration with the Library of… | Mar 27, 2023 |
| Ethan Hawke, Malala Yousafzai, Andrew Bird & More to Celebrate Poetry & the Creative Mind, the 20th Annual Benefit of the Academy of American Poets | Academy Award-nominated actors Liam Neeson, Ethan Hawke, and Rosie Perez; Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai; award-winning actors Alan Cumming and Daniel Dae Kim; actor, comedian, and author… | Mar 23, 2023 |
| Poetry Fund Accepting Applications for Grants to be Awarded in 2023 | n alliance with the Amazon Literary Partnership, the Academy of American Poets invites poetry organizations and presses to submit applications for grants from the Poetry Fund, which will be awarded in 2023. The Amazon… | Mar 3, 2023 |
| Poetry Coalition Offers Nationwide Programs on the Theme “and so much lost you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief” | Now through July 2023, the Poetry Coalition will launch “and so much lost you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief,” the coalition’s seventh annual programming initiative. For this collaborative effort… | Feb 28, 2023 |