"Piece by piece we stitch ourselves back together"

We are thrilled to announce the elections of Jericho Brown, Diane Seuss, and Afaa Michael Weaver to our fifteen-member Board of Chancellors. The Academy’s Board of Chancellors is composed of esteemed poets who serve as artistic advisors to the Academy and ambassadors of poetry to the nation at large, select the recipients of major Academy prizes and fellowships, and champion the organization’s programs for poets and readers. 

“Poetry is an art that emphasizes close and careful observation, and a poet can use that skill to perceive and notice the elements of a community that may not sit at the absolute surface of any place but are nevertheless powerful and compelling.”

—Read an interview with Laura Da’, 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow and poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. Read a selection of Da’s poems on Poets.org: 

“Nationhood”
“The Tecumseh Motel”
“Leviathan”

The Academy of American Poets, along with Scholastic, is pleased to present the 2024 National Poetry Month poster in celebration of the active role poetry plays in young people’s education. The poster features artwork by award-winning children’s author and illustrator Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton. The poster will be distributed free-of-charge to 85,000 classrooms, libraries, bookstores, community centers, and homes in time for the April 2024 occasion of National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. 

#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 St., Newark, NJ 07102). Buy tickets here. (Sponsored) 

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. 

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 judge is 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 2023. The judge is Valzhyna Mort. Learn more here and apply by February 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET).