![]() ![]() ![]() Harris and Carla Rachel Sameth (Altadena, CA), Taylor Johnson (Takoma Park, MD), Yalie Saweda Kamara (Cincinnati, OH), Brandy Nālani McDougall (Hawaiʻi), Gloria Muñoz (St. The 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows and the communities they serve are Diannely Antigua (Portsmouth, NH), Lisa Bickmore (Utah), Jennifer Bartell Boykin (Columbia, SC), Joseph Bruchac (Saratoga Springs, NY), Lauren Camp (New Mexico), Laura Da’ (Redmond, WA), Oliver de la Paz (Worcester, MA), Farnaz Fatemi (Santa Cruz County, CA), Nicholas Gulig (Fort Atkinson, WI), Peter J. Final award decisions were approved by members of the Academy of American Poets’ Board of Directors. poet laureate and a member of the Academy’s Board of Chancellors,” said Tess O’Dwyer, Board Chair. “We want to thank the following panelists for their generous investment of time and expertise in recommending the recipients of the 2023 Fellowships: Francisco Aragón, the founding director of Letras Latinas at Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies Ed Madden, the former poet laureate of Columbia, South Carolina Olivia Morgan, the founder of National Student Poets and Tracy K. “We are proud to continue our support of the Poet Laureate Fellowship program and to honor the Academy of American Poets’ enduring commitment to the unique power of poetry.” “Collectively the voice and vision of these twenty-three poets laureate will bring together community members through the craft and creativity of poetry and illuminate place through words,” said Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation. The fellowships are made possible by the Mellon Foundation, which awarded the Academy two grants to fund the program. ![]() In addition to helping these Fellows reach tens of thousands of individuals in ninety-two different communities through creative and timely poetry programs, the Academy has helped encourage the creation of more than forty new poet laureate positions across the nation since launching this program. Through its Poet Laureate Fellowship program, the Academy of American Poets-a leading financial supporter of poets in the United States-has awarded a total of $5.45 million in fellowships to one hundred and four poets laureate since 2019, plus more than $360,000 in matching grants to secure project support from forty-seven local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. “We are inspired by these projects-which include intergenerational workshops, city- and statewide festivals, community-generated publications, and more-that the twenty-three Fellows will carry out, and grateful to the Mellon Foundation and the nonprofit organizations supporting this life-affirming work.” “The Academy of American Poets celebrates the unique position poets laureate occupy at state and local levels, elevating the possibilities poetry can bring to community conversations and reminding us that our national spirit can be nourished by the power of the written and spoken word,” said Ricardo Maldonado, President and Executive Director of the Academy. The Academy will additionally provide $114,500 total in matching grants to help secure the pledged support of the Fellows’ projects from twelve local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. These twenty-three individuals serve as poets laureate of states, counties, and cities across the United States and will be leading public poetry programs in their respective communities in 2023–24. ![]() New York, NY (July 25, 2023)-The Academy of American Poets announced today that it is awarding $50,000 each to its 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows for a combined total of $1.1 million. ![]()
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