 | The Academy of American Poets was founded by Marie Bullock
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 | First Fellowship awarded to Edwin Markham; First issue of Doggerel, the Academy's official newsletter, published
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 | New York World's Fair Official Poem selected
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 | Board of Chancellors created; Annual Fellowships begin with award to Edgar Lee Masters
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 | E. E. Cummings receives Fellowship
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 | First ten schools selected for University & College Prize program; Lamont Award for best first book established
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 | William Carlos Williams receives Fellowship
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 | Robert Frost speaks at 25th anniversary celebration
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 | First anthology of College Prize winners published, including Sylvia Plath
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 | Guggenheim Museum reading series begins; John Berryman gives the first reading of the Dream Songs
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 | Poets-in-the-Schools program begins; National Reading Circuits program launched
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 | Edgar Allan Poe featured first in a new series of U.S. postage stamps honoring poets; Library of Congress exhibit for 35th Anniversary
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 | Poetry in the Parks
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 | High-school Poetry Workshops begin; Marilyn Hacker receives Lamont Award
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 | Mark Strand receives Edgar Allan Poe Award; Robert Lowell receives Copernicus Award
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 | Annual award for best second book established and given to Lisel Mueller
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 | First annual Landon Award for best book of translated poetry given to Robert Fitzgerald
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 | First Lavan Younger Poets Award goes to Edward Hirsch
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 | A Poets' Celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge Centenary
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 | American Poets Fund created for poets in need
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 | Southwestern Poetry festival held in Arizona
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 | National Reading Series launched; John Haines and others present at the Alaskan Poetry Festival in Fairbanks
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 | Asian American Poetry Festival begins; writers on the Environment program
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 | National reading tour with Chinese dissident poets
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 | Poet Laureate Rita Dove reads at Cathedral of St. John the Divine with Nobel Laureates Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, & Octavio Paz
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 | First annual Wallace Stevens Award of $100,000 for lifetime achievement given to W. S. Merwin; Lenore Marshall Award for best poetry book of the year moved to the Academy
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 | Poets.org, first poetry website initiated; Raiziss / de Palchi Italian Translation awards established
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 | First National Poetry Month; American Poet magazine launched; First Eric Mathieu King Awards support publication of poetry books, including Lucille Clifton's, Muriel Rukeyser's, and others
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 | White House Millennium evening of poetry
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 | Poet's View documentary film series launched
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 | Online Poetry Classroom goes live
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 | Poetry & the Creative Mind annual benefit reading launched at Lincoln Center with Meryl Streep, Jessye Norman, William Styron, and others; National Poetry Map debuts on Poets.org
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 | Poetry Audio Archive released on CD; Poetry Gift Shop opened online
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 | Poets.org redesigned and expanded; Poetry in Bryant Park reading series launched
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 | How to Eat a Poem anthology published for young readers; National Poetry Read-a-Thon launched
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 | First annual Poets Forum held; Poetry Audio Archive digitized
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 | First national Poem in Your Pocket Day; Mobile version of Poets.org launched; Poetry from the Rooftops summer reading series started
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 | Abrams publishes Poem in Your Pocket anthology; Academy celebrates 75th Anniversary
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