Spring into Poetry: Announcing New Education Programs

Thanks to a two-year grant from Hawthornden Foundation, we’re thrilled to announce new education programs for readers of all ages, which offer free poetry workshops to students and teachers in New York City public schools, as well as online literary seminars to lifelong learners all over the world. 

Our inaugural season of literary seminars features Pulitzer winner and former Academy Chancellor Carl Phillips on Gwendolyn Brooks, celebrated translator Sophus Helle on Gilgamesh, and Harold Morton Translation Award winner Stephanie McCarter on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 

Dear Poet 2024

Every National Poetry Month we present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites young people in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by award-winning poets. The submission period for Dear Poet 2024 is now open until April 22, 2024. 

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Join us for a reading and conversation with former Academy Chancellor Terrance Hayes, followed by an introduction to and reading by the newly selected 2024 Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence, Meg Day. Tuesday, March 26, 6:30–8 p.m. ET. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128. Use code PIR5 for $5 off the general ticket type. Register here. (Sponsored)

2024 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize & 2024 James Laughlin Award  

We are now accepting submissions from publishers for the 2024 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, which recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in 2023, and the 2024 James Laughlin Award, given to a second book of poetry forthcoming in 2025. Learn more here and apply by May 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET). 

2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships

The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships are $50,000 awards given to honor poets of literary merit appointed to serve in civic positions and to enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that engage their fellow residents, including youth, with poetry, helping to address issues important to their communities. We are accepting applications for the 2024 fellowships until April 8, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET.