18th Annual Poetry & the Creative Mind
April 29, 2021
Join the Academy of American Poets and Honorary Event Co-Chairs Meryl Streep and Rose Styron for a first-ever virtual gala, celebrating the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month.
Featuring:
Meryl Streep (Event Chair)
with
Elizabeth Alexander (Master of Ceremonies)
Lauren Ambrose
Richard Blanco
Terrance Hayes
Joy Harjo
Regina King
Samin Nosrat
Sandra Oh
Sarah Sze
Lucinda Williams
& more
Proceeds support the Academy of American Poets Education Program, providing free resources for tens of thousands of teachers each year.
2021 Producers Circle
Executive Produced by
John Blondel
William Campbell and Christine Wächter-Campbell
Timothy and Ruth Carey
Patricia Grodd and Michael Stone
Penn and Diane Holsenbeck
John and Susan Jackson
Hon. Thomas H. Kean
Eunice Panetta
Andrew Schiff and Alexandra Wolfe Schiff
Produced by
Priscilla Bender
Elisabeth Carter
Michael Jacobs and Sheridan Hay
Camille Lannan and Yury Gitman
Eric Rayman
Publishers Circle
ABRAMS Books
Andrews McMeel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Penguin Random House
W. W. Norton
Honorary Event Co-chairs
Meryl Streep
Rose Styron
List information. Last updated March 24, 2021
with additional support from
Linette Marie Allen, Jim and J'Ann Allen, Virginia Anderson, Gail Evelyn Apgar, Stephen Avery, Susan Vartanian Barba, Liza and William Bennett, Michael A. Boyd, Ciara Burnham, Timothy Calaway, Lucinda Johnson Clark, Joyce Coleman, Walt Cooper, Carter M. Cramer, Ellen C. de Saint Phalle, Margaret H. Douglas-Hamilton, Mary Jo D. Eagen, David Egger, Kathryn Fleming, Linda Nemec Foster, Jonathan Fried, Alston Gardner and Barbara Lee, David Hariton, Rayna M. Harman, Bob Hass, Helen Houghton, Kake Huck, Kristin Jautz, Mary-Ellen Kreher, Nils Larsen, Dr. Tom Madden, Jessica and Paul Maich, Susan E. Master, Peter Mennella, Robert W. Newcomb, Pastor Amy Nyman, Tess O'Dwyer, Judith Overmier, KJ Page, Jan Madeleine Paynter, Rebecca L. Penick, Jill Delano Ridder, Tim Schaffner, Jacqueline Schiff, Cynthia J. Schumacher, John Shannon and Jan Serr, Darcy Smith, Elizabeth Sobol, Valerie Sopher, Matthew T. Stone, Landey Strongin, Carlos Toomer, Patricia Traxler, Dawn Tripp, Seymour Ubell and Marsha Tosk, Dr. Elizabeth Wade, Arete Warren, Dr. and Mrs. Mel B. Yoken, and Holly Ulmer York
Support for Poetry & the Creative Mind is tax-deductible, less the value of benefits received.
proceeds support national poetry month
The Academy of American Poets Education Program provides tens of thousands of educators with free resources each year, helping bring poetry into the classroom during National Poetry Month and beyond.
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