In 2024, Amanda Johnston was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Through her project, Praisesong for the People: Poems Celebrating the Heart and Soul of Texas, Johnston will commission seventy poets across seven regions of the state to write poems celebrating everyday Texans. The project seeks to uplift the intersecting population across generational, gender, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, differently abled, and immigrant communities. Johnston will also share resources with K–12 educators to encourage students to read and write praise poems.