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- EIN 13-1879953
- (212) 274-0343
- 75 Maiden Ln Rm 901 New York NY 10038 USA
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Humanities
Mission: To encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of american poetry by providing fellowships for poets of proven merit, by granting scholarships, awards and prizes for poetic achievement, and by other such means as the board of directors may devise and determine.
Programs: Awards and prizes -- the academy adminstered and awarded the following poetry awards: the wallace stevens award, the academy fellowship, the lenore marshall prize, the james laughlin award, the walt whitman award, the raiziss/de palchi translation award, the harold morton landon translation award, as well as student prizes at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide.
website -- launched in 1996, poets. Org is the award-winning website of the academy of american poets. Visitors to poets. Org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings-with new material being added constantly. Also available are resources such as the national poetry map, a national events calendar, and poetry lesson plans for teachers. Poets. Org receives a million visitors each month, making it the most popular site about poetry on the web.
national poetry month -- inaugurated by the academy of american poets in 1996, national poetry month is now held every april, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in american culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.
poetry forum, membership services, reading series, and american poet.