Women in Translation Month, National Student Poets, and more

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: the 2021 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Reading Series by Lambda Literary, a member of the Poetry Coalition. A week-long public Reading Series featuring over 60 LGBTQIA+ Faculty, Fellows, and Writers-in-Residence. August 8 to 14. Learn more about these free virtual readings here. 

The National Student Poets Program honors and amplifies the voices of young poets in grades ten and eleven. Each of the five student poets selected represent a different region, and serve in their roles for a year. Meet the Class of 2021 here and read about their work. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess will judge the 2022 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most generous first-book prize for poetry. The winner will receive $5,000 and their manuscript will be published by Graywolf Press in 2023. Submissions will be accepted online between August 1 and October 1, 2021, and the recipient will be announced in April 2022 during National Poetry Month.