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Each year during National Poetry Month in April, the Academy of American Poets presents a special celebration of poetry's important place in our culture and its impact on the lives of readers and artists working in other disciplines.
On April 29, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of National Poetry Month, join us for the 18th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind at 7:30 pm EST. The event, typically held in person in New York City, will be presented virtually for the first time ever, making it available to poetry readers and lovers everywhere.
Poetry & the Creative Mind features leading and legendary actors, dancers, artists, musicians, and public figures sharing their favorite poems. Past readers have included Uzo Aduba, Sam Beam, Wayne Brady, Glenn Close, Claire Danes, Tina Fey, Terrance Howard, Bill T. Jones, Maya Lin, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Uma Thurman, and Carrie Mae Weems, as well as frequent Honorary Event Co-chair Meryl Streep.
This always-inspiring evening benefits the K–12 Education Program of the Academy of American Poets, which reaches more than 100,000 students each year with resources on Poets.org, the Dear Poet project, and materials created for National Poetry Month.
The gala presentation will include music and readings of favorite poems, shared by luminaries from across the arts and culture, including:
& more
Students could be featured on Poets.org!
Every National Poetry Month the Academy of American Poets present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites young people in grades 5 through 12 to write letters in response to poems written and read by award-winning poets, including poets who serve on the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors and who have received our Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships.
Hear poetry readings by poets and find full information. Teachers and students can send responses to dearpoet@poets.org by April 30. Please include your full name, school, and state.
Calling all high school seniors attending a public high school in the United States! We Need Diverse Books and Penguin Random House are happy to announce that submissions are open for the 2021 Creative Writing Awards, a scholarship program dedicated to furthering the education of students with unique and diverse voices. The 2021 competition is open now and closes on March 2, 2021. For more details and to apply, please visit the Penguin Random House website.
Calling all poets! The 2021 NC State Poetry Contest is now accepting entries.
The annual contest is a free literary competition open to all North Carolina residents, including out-of-state and international students who are enrolled in North Carolina universities. It remains one of the largest free-to-enter poetry contests in the South.
This year’s guest judge is award-winning poet Kayleb Rae Candrilli and features a grand prize of $500.
Submissions Open for Translators & Poets Writing in Spanish
Established in 2017, the Ambroggio Prize is the only annual award of its kind in the United States that honors American poets whose first language is Spanish.
The 2021 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 is published by the University of Arizona Press, which is nationally recognized for its commitment to publishing the award-winning works of emerging and established voices in Latinx and Indigenous literature, as well as groundbreaking scholarship in Latinx and Indigenous studies.
The Blaney Lecture on contemporary poetry and poetics is offered annually in New York City by a prominent poet. Past lectures have been given by Sharon Olds, Joy Harjo, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forche, Elizabeth Alexander, Susan Howe, and Anne Carson.
On Thursday, February 11, 2021, at 7 p.m. EST, Adrian Matejka will deliver the 2020 - 2021 Blaney Lecture. Matejka is author of the graphic novel Last On His Feet (Liveright, 2021) and the poetry collection Map to the Stars (Penguin Books, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and a 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. This virtual event is free to attend with registration. ASL interpretation will be provided. To register, visit: www.crowdcast.io/e/2020-2021-blaney-lecture.
The Academy of American Poets invites students living in the United States, U.S. Territories, or Tribal Nations, and in grades 9 through 12 to enter artwork to be considered for the National Poetry Month poster in 2022, in celebration of National Poetry Month, now the largest literary celebration in the world.
The winner will be selected by co-judges Nikki Grimes, New York Times-bestselling author and poet, and Rafael López, New York Times-bestselling illustrator.
The winning student’s artwork will be printed on 100,000+ copies of the official April 2022 poster, which will be distributed for free to classrooms, libraries, bookstores, community centers, families, and individuals nationwide, and viewed by millions of people during next year’s annual celebration. The winning student will be featured on Poets.org and in American Poets, and will receive $1,000 in cash and prizes. The runner-up will receive $250.
Last year’s winner was twelfth grader Bao Lu from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York, whose artwork was selected by renowned illustrator Maira Kalman and New York Times-bestselling YA author and poet Renée Watson from among eleven outstanding finalists and 145+ student submissions. Lu’s artwork incorporates lines from “For Keeps” by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
Before submitting any artwork for consideration, students must make sure that they are 1) eligible and 2) able to adhere to all of the guidelines.
