In 2024, Traci Brimhall was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. To connect Kansas’s agricultural roots, foods, and cultural histories with poetry, Brimhall will make a community poetry cookbook that unites Kansan chefs and Kansan poets in the creation of rich poems that engage the senses; recipes that represent Kansas’s many agricultural offerings; and “ingredients” for readers to write their own poems. Brimhall’s fellowship project will also involve a poem game, “Pie-ku,” to bring food poetry to younger audiences.