Join the Academy of American Poets for a benefit cocktail reception, followed by a reading featuring Academy Chancellors and the 2025 winners of the Academy Fellowship and Wallace Stevens Award.
This special evening will feature readings by Chancellors Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Carolyn Forché, Kimiko Hahn, Ilya Kaminsky, Ed Roberson, Patricia Smith, Afaa Michael Weaver, Eleanor Wilner, and Kevin Young, and will feature a special guest reading by Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence, Traci Brimhall.
Friday, October 17, 2025
The Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128
Cocktail Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Readings and Awards Presentation: 6:30 p.m.
Followed by a private viewing of “Rashid Johnson: a Poem for Deep Thinkers”
Your participation is critical to raising much-needed funds that sustain the Academy's offerings to poets, readers, teachers, and students all over the nation. As a supporter, you will help make our event a singular success while signaling your belief in the vital art of poetry.
Please reply by October 8th to be listed in the evening’s program.