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| Poem-a-Day #1 Source of Selected Work for Best American Poetry 2019 | Congratulations to the following poets whose work was selected from Poem-a-Day by Major Jackson to be featured in the 2019 edition of the Best American Poetry anthology: Rosa Alcalá, Chen Chen, Natalie Diaz, | |
| Announcing the Recipients of the 2019 American Poets Prizes | We are excited to share the list of recipients of the 2019 American Poets Prizes, which are among the most valuable and venerable poetry prizes in the United States. This year, the Academy of American Poets has awarded … | |
| Poems In Translation Contest Winners | Congratulations to the winners of the first-ever Poems in Translation Contest launched by Words Without Borders and the Academy of American Poets. The four winning translated poems were selected by the editors of Words… | |
| Poet and Teacher Ansley Moon is New Curriculum Consultant of Award-Winning Teach This Poem Series | We are pleased to announce that poet and teacher Ansley Moon will be serving as the organization’s Curriculum Consultant for Teach This Poem, an award-winning series produced by the Academy of American Poets that… | |
| Announcing the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize | We are pleased to announce the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, which will honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present, in partnership with… | |
| Presenting the Academy of American Poets' 2019 Fall–Winter Season | We are pleased to announce our 2019 Fall–Winter Season, which will run from September through February and include readings and panel discussions by the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets; a conversation series… | |
| 2020 National Poetry Month Poster Contest for Students | We are pleased to announce that renowned graphic memoirist and comic book artist Alison Bechdel and former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will judge the 2020 National Poetry Month Poster Contest for Students. The… | |
| Harryette Mullen to Judge 2020 Walt Whitman Award | We are pleased to announce that Harryette Mullen will judge the 2020 Walt Whitman Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry. The winner of the Whitman Award will receive $5,000, publication by Graywolf… | |
| Marie Ponsot (1921 - 2019) | We are saddened to learn that Academy Chancellor Emeritus Marie Ponsot has passed away at the age of 98. About her work, poet and critic Susan Stewart has said: "What she has written of her relation to the night sky—‘it… | |
| The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Features Poetry and the Academy of American Poets in their 2018 Annual Report | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation features poetry and the Academy of American Poets in their 2018 Annual Report. As Elizabeth Alexander, President of the Mellon Foundation, writes: “Poetry is small, it is portable, it is… |