On the Road to National Poetry Month, A Historic Grant for Poetry, and more.

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend January 23, 2019 On The Road to National Poetry Month 2019   It's the beginning of the year, and so many teachers, students, and readers are preparing for the largest literary celebration in the world—National Poetry Month. Here's a preview of things to come this April.

Poetry & the Creative Mind 2019   Join us in New York City's Lincoln Center on April 24 for our 17th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind gala. Tickets are now on sale for the event, which in previous years has featured such guests as Uma Thurman, Krista Tippett, Patty Griffin, Lorna Simpson, Meryl Streep, and more. Order Your 2019 NPM Poster   This year we chose our very first National Poetry Month Poster Contest winner, Julia Wang, from Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California. Every year we distribute more than 100,000 posters to libraries, schools, and bookstores across the country. Order your free poster now! Dear Poet 2019   For National Poetry Month this year, we present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites students in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by our Chancellors. In this video, Ellen Bass reads her poem "Lost Dog." This year Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 25. Find out how to celebrate. Share your poetry events or search local poetry events with our Poetry Near You calendar. Discover 30 ways you can celebrate National Poetry Month this year. Academy of American Poets Receives Historic $2.2 Million   In what is believed to be one of the largest awards made to support poetry in the United States by a philanthropic institution, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has made two grants to the Academy of American Poets totaling $2.2 million. The funds will enable the work of several poets serving in civic Poets Laureate positions, and of more than 20 poetry organizations who comprise a national Poetry Coalition. Submit: 2019 Translation Prizes   Poets writing in Spanish and translators, you still have time to submit to the Ambroggio Prize, given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation, and to our two translation prizes: the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship. Entries must be postmarked by February 15. In Case You Missed It   Monthly Dose of Poetry Join January Poem-a-Day guest editor TC Tolbert speak to Alison Stewart, host of WNYC's All of It.   National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists Congratulations to Academy Chancellor Terrance Hayes for being nominated for two National Book Critics Circle Awards, one in criticism and the other in poetry.   The Academy of American Poets is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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