More Content for Pride Month     

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: The Max Ritvo Poetry Prize Presents, featuring Michael Kleber Diggs in conversation with Academy Chancellor Tracy. K. Smith for the official launch of Worldly Things, the 2020 winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Co-presented by the Academy of American Poets, Milkweed Editions, Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and the Alan B. Slifka Foundation. Tonight, June 8, at 7 p.m. EDT. Watch the livestream on Facebook. 
 

The Poetry Coalition, a network of over twenty-five poetry organizations coordinated by the Academy of American Poets, is pleased to announce the 2021–2022 Poetry Coalition Fellowships, which are paid fellowship positions for five individuals who will each assist a different Poetry Coalition organization for twenty hours per week over the course of a forty-week period. Applications will be accepted until July 6.