Native American Heritage Month, Guggenheim Museum Poet-in-Residence, Poetry & Labor, and more

“Our art form can help people see things deeper and differently than what they are used to.” Read this interview with 2021 Poet Laureate Fellow, Marcus Amaker, on his Poets in Schools program and his own writing. The Academy Poets Laureate Fellowships, established in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 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.

The Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, has established a year-long poet-in-residence position open to a contemporary poet with a strong interest in public engagement beginning in January 2022. Applications will be accepted online through December 5 at 11:59 p.m. EST. View the eligibility and submission guidelines, and apply, here. 

Join us this Thursday, November 4, at 7 p.m. EDT, for Chancellor Conversations: Poetry & Labor with Kwame Dawes, Brenda Hillman, Marie Howe, Dorianne Laux, and Natasha Trethewey, on the poet’s labor and how poetry envisions itself as a piece of work. Closed captioning available. Register for this free, virtual event here. 

The Academy of American Poets invites students living in the United States, U.S. Territories, or Tribal Nations who are in grades 9 through 12 to enter artwork to be considered for the National Poetry Month poster in 2022. The winner will be selected by co-judges Rafael López, New York Times-bestselling illustrator and artist, and Nikki Grimes, New York Times-bestselling author and poet. The winning student’s artwork will be featured on the official National Poetry Month poster in 2022, which will be distributed to classrooms, libraries, bookstores, community centers, families, and individuals nationwide in time for the April celebration. The deadline to submit is November 15, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. EST.