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| Patricia Smith Curates Special Love Sonnets for Poem-a-Day | This Valentine’s Day, and for all of Black History Month, the Academy of American Poets encourages readers to share love poems and follow Guest Editor Patricia Smith’s special month of Poem-a-Day. Smith asked twenty… | |
| The Academy of American Poets, Together with Scholastic, Reveals the Official 2023 National Poetry Month Poster | The Academy of American Poets is thrilled to partner with Scholastic to reveal the design of the official 2023 National Poetry Month poster featuring artwork by Marc Brown, creator of the popular Arthur book and PBS… | |
| Kimiko Hahn, Ilya Kaminsky, Ed Roberson, and Patricia Smith Elected to Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors | New York, NY (January 24, 2023)—The Academy of American Poets is honored to announce that Kimiko Hahn, Ilya Kaminsky, Ed Roberson, and Patricia Smith have been elected to its fifteen-member Board of Chancellors. These… | |
| The Academy of American Poets to Award Capacity-Building Grants to Fifty-Three Literary Organizations | The Academy of American Poets announced today that it will award capacity-building grants to fifty-three independent nonprofit literary organizations that present poetry or serve poets in their programming, in 2023 and 2024… | |
| The Guggenheim Museum Announces Ama Codjoe as its 2023 Poet-in-Residence | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, presents Ama Codjoe as its Poet-in-Residence for 2023. The residency, now in its second year, builds upon the institution’s legacy of… | |
| Academy of American Poets Awarded $84,180 Cultural Development Fund Grant from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that it has received an award of $84,180 from the City of New York. This comes as part of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (… | |
| Academy of American Poets Awarded $49,500 Grant by NYSCA | The Academy of American Poets announced today a grant award totaling $49,500 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) as part of its effort to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.… | |
| First-of-its-Kind Impact Report on the U.S. Literary Arts Field | The three organizations behind the Literary Arts Emergency Fund—the Academy of American Poets, Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, and National Book Foundation—have released a first-of-its-kind report on the… | |
| Announcing the Poem-a-Day Guest Editors for 2023 | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2023. The guest editors, who live in ten different states across the country, are… | |
| Applications for the 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships Opening December 5 | The Academy of American Poets will begin accepting applications for its 2023 Poet Laureate Fellowships on December 5, 2023. The $50,000 fellowships will honor poets laureate of states, cities, counties, U.S.… |