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| Eduardo C. Corral Selects Sara Daniele Rivera as Winner of 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award | Eduardo C. Corral has selected Sara Daniele Rivera’s manuscript The Blue Mimes as the recipient of the 2023 Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for a poet. Rivera’s… | Mar 28, 2023 |
| U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Selects Twenty Poems for Poem-a-Day Series in Honor of National Poetry Month | The poet laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, has selected twenty new poems by contemporary poets to be featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series as part of a collaboration with the Library of… | Mar 27, 2023 |
| Ethan Hawke, Malala Yousafzai, Andrew Bird & More to Celebrate Poetry & the Creative Mind, the 20th Annual Benefit of the Academy of American Poets | Academy Award-nominated actors Liam Neeson, Ethan Hawke, and Rosie Perez; Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai; award-winning actors Alan Cumming and Daniel Dae Kim; actor, comedian, and author… | Mar 23, 2023 |
| Poetry Fund Accepting Applications for Grants to be Awarded in 2023 | n alliance with the Amazon Literary Partnership, the Academy of American Poets invites poetry organizations and presses to submit applications for grants from the Poetry Fund, which will be awarded in 2023. The Amazon… | Mar 3, 2023 |
| Poetry Coalition Offers Nationwide Programs on the Theme “and so much lost you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief” | Now through July 2023, the Poetry Coalition will launch “and so much lost you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief,” the coalition’s seventh annual programming initiative. For this collaborative effort… | Feb 28, 2023 |
| Patricia Smith Curates Special Love Sonnets for Poem-a-Day | This Valentine’s Day, and for all of Black History Month, the Academy of American Poets encourages readers to share love poems and follow Guest Editor Patricia Smith’s special month of Poem-a-Day. Smith asked twenty Black… | Feb 9, 2023 |
| The Academy of American Poets, Together with Scholastic, Reveals the Official 2023 National Poetry Month Poster | The Academy of American Poets is thrilled to partner with Scholastic to reveal the design of the official 2023 National Poetry Month poster featuring artwork by Marc Brown, creator of the popular Arthur book and PBS… | Jan 31, 2023 |
| Kimiko Hahn, Ilya Kaminsky, Ed Roberson, and Patricia Smith Elected to Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors | New York, NY (January 24, 2023)—The Academy of American Poets is honored to announce that Kimiko Hahn, Ilya Kaminsky, Ed Roberson, and Patricia Smith have been elected to its fifteen-member Board of Chancellors. These four… | Jan 24, 2023 |
| The Academy of American Poets to Award Capacity-Building Grants to Fifty-Three Literary Organizations | The Academy of American Poets announced today that it will award capacity-building grants to fifty-three independent nonprofit literary organizations that present poetry or serve poets in their programming, in 2023 and 2024… | Jan 19, 2023 |
| The Guggenheim Museum Announces Ama Codjoe as its 2023 Poet-in-Residence | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, presents Ama Codjoe as its Poet-in-Residence for 2023. The residency, now in its second year, builds upon the institution’s legacy of… | Jan 17, 2023 |