In 2024, Jean Prokott was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Prokott will examine how mental health impacts groups differently, including teenagers, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, and underserved populations. Working with Rochester’s writing, art, education, and medical communities, she will develop an exhibition of work at the Historic Chateau Theater by poets and artists who self-identify as affected by mental illness, distribute broadsides with magnets that list mental health resources, and display poetry window clings throughout the city.