Program areas at Academy of American Poets
Awards and grants - The Academy administered and awarded more than $2.5m 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.poetry coalition - The Academy served as The coordinator and fiscal administrator of a poetry coalition, an intentionally inclusive alliance of thirty organizations, almost all of which are led by working, published Poets who are also arts administrators. Each of these organizations have paid staff who are published Poets and a primary mission to promote Poets and poetry and are multi-genre literary organizations that serve Poets and readers of specific racial, ethnic or gender identities and communities, including asian American, african anericam, latinx, and lgbtq, as well as youth, across The united states.
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 coalition, education, national poetry month, reading series, program membership, and chancellors fund.