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| The Literary Arts Emergency Fund Awards $4.3 Million to Literary Arts Field as it Faces Continued Financial Losses | The Literary Arts Emergency Fund, launched and administered by the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazine & Presses (CLMP), and the National Book Foundation in 2020, will distribute $4,300,000 in… | Apr 14, 2022 |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces Programs for National Poetry Month 2022 | Friday, April 1 marks the beginning of the 26th annual National Poetry Month, an occasion launched by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate the integral role that poets and poetry have in our culture. Over the past two… | Mar 31, 2022 |
| Tyehimba Jess Selects Kweku Abimbola as the Winner of 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess has selected Kweku Abimbola’s manuscript Saltwater Demands a Psalm as the recipient of the 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most valuable first-book… | Mar 28, 2022 |
| Announcing the 20th Annual Poem in Your Pocket Day | The Academy of American Poets, in partnership with the New York City Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education, invites you to participate in the twentieth annual Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 29, 2022 to culminate… | Mar 25, 2022 |
| The Academy of American Poets Leadership Award to be Presented to Three-Term U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo During National Poetry Month | The Academy of American Poets is honored to present its 2022 Leadership Award in poetry to Joy Harjo, three-term Poet Laureate of the United States, during the organization’s signature National Poetry Month event, Poetry… | Mar 24, 2022 |
| Naomi Shihab Nye Selects 21 Poems for Poem-a-Day Series in Honor of National Poetry Month This April | Award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye has selected twenty-one 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 National Poetry Month… | Mar 22, 2022 |
| Poetry Coalition Launches “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice” | This year, the 25+ organizations nationwide that comprise the Poetry Coalition will launch “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice,” the coalition’s sixth annual programming initiative. For this… | Mar 3, 2022 |
| Poetry Fund Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Grants | In 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 2022. The Amazon… | Feb 23, 2022 |
| Love Poems for Valentine’s Day From Poets.org | This Valentine’s Day, the Academy of American Poets, the producer of Poets.org—one of the world’s most popular online resources for poems—invites you to share more love poems. | Feb 10, 2022 |
| Carolyn Forché Elected Newest Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets | The Academy of American Poets is honored to announce that Carolyn Forché has been elected its newest Chancellor, a distinction shared by just 120 poets since 1946, when the group was formed to ensure that poets would always… | Jan 31, 2022 |