"I make peace with this being a beginning"

Open Call for 2024 Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence

In collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Museum is seeking a contemporary poet with strong interests in art and public engagement for its third annual Poet-in-Residence position. Applications to the 2024 residency are being accepted online through January 31, 2024. 

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Come celebrate the centennial of Max Roach with a reimagined performance of We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, his revolutionary 1960 album that explored issues of social justice and racial inequality through the lenses of jazz and poetry, on Friday, January 26, at 8 p.m. ET at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (1 Center Street, Newark, NJ 07102). Buy tickets here. (Sponsored) 

2024 Ambroggio Prize

The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2025. The 2024 Ambroggio Prize will be judged by Norma Elia Cantú. Learn more here and apply by February 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET). 

2024 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 award recognizing a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year. The 2024 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award will be judged by Valzhyna Mort. Learn more here and apply by February 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET).