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| The Academy of American Poets Awarded $20,000 Grant from the Library of Congress to Feature New Primary Sources in Teach This Poem Series | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that it has received a $20,000 grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program to feature new primary sources from the Library's collection in… | |
| Poem-a-Day to Feature Winning Poems from new Words Without Borders Translation Contest | Words Without Borders, a content partner of the Academy of American Poets, has launched a new Poems in Translation Contest to celebrate the art of translating poetry. The winning poems will be co-published in Poem-a-Day this… | |
| The Academy of American Poets Announces Amazon Literary Partnership Poetry Fund | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that it has received $120,000 from the Amazon Literary Partnership program to create a new Poetry Fund and grant to poetry organizations and presses that… | |
| Academy of American Poets Receives Grant from Amazon Literary Partnership Program to Create New Poetry Fund | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that it has received a $120,000 grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership program to create a new Poetry Fund to support poetry organizations and presses that specialize… | |
| Academy of American Poets Receives NEA Art Works Grant | The Academy of American Poets has been awarded an $80,000 Art Works grant, the largest in the literature category, from the National Endowment for the Arts. This is one of 977 grants awarded by the NEA totaling $80 million… | |
| Announcing the Inaugural Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows | The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the first-ever Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows who will receive a combined $1,050,000 in recognition of their literary merit and to support civic programs.… | |
| Join Us At AWP 2019 | Join us at the 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair, from Wednesday, March 27, through Saturday, March 30, 2019, in Portland, Oregon, where Academy Chancellors Ellen Bass, Marilyn… | |
| The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1 Million to Support the Poetry Coalition | New York, NY (January 15, 2019)—As the readership of poetry in the United States has nearly doubled in the past five years, The Andrew W. | |
| Join Us at the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival | Join us at the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at the Brooklyn Borough Hall and vicinity, for readings by Academy Chancellor Terrance Hayes and American Poets Prize winners Raquel Salas Rivera,… | |
| A Letter from the Executive Director | Dear Readers, |