Program areas at Academy of American Poets
Awards and grantssee schedule o awards and grants - The Academy administered and awarded more than $2.1m in poetry awards and prizes including: Poets laureate fellowships, letras boricuas fellowship, amazon literary partnerships, The wallace stevens award, The Academy fellowship, The lenore marshall prize, The james laughlin award, The walt whitman award, The raiziss/ de palchi translation award (italian translation award), The harold morton landon translation award, The American Poets emergency fund, treehouse climate action poetry prize, as well as student prizes at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide.the literary arts emergency fund (laef) - launched and administered by The Academy of American Poets, The community of literary magazine & presses (clmp), and The national book foundation in 2020 distributed and regranted $1m in funding to 24 nonprofit literary arts organizations and publishers across The u.s. that experienced continued financial losses resulting from The covid-19 pandemic. The laef was made possible by a grant from The mellon foundation.
The American Poets magazine - The American Poets magazine (ampo) launched in 1996 and published twice annually in april and october, exclusively for The members of The Academy of American Poets. This magazine reaches devoted readers and writers of poetry and literature, students of poetry, some of The most renowned and respected Poets of our time and some of The nation's most generous patrons of poetry.
Website - launched in 1996, poets.org is The award-winning website of The Academy of American Poets. Visitors to poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of Poets biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings with The constant addition of new materials. In addition, resources such as a national events calendar, and development of poetry lesson plans for teachers are available. Poets.org receives more than five million visits each month, making it one of The most popular poetry sites on The web.
Poetry forum, poetry coaltion, education, national poetry month, reading series, program membership and chancellors fund