In alliance with Amazon Literary Partnership, the Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the Poetry Fund grants, which are provided annually to poetry organizations and presses that are selected from among a pool of applicants. Amazon Literary Partnership originally launched the Poetry Fund with the Academy in 2019 to further its role as a supporter of poetry organizations nationwide and to build the readership of poetry.
The Academy, in cooperation with Amazon Literary Partnership, convened a grantmaking panel this year that included M. Bartley Seigel, Aileen Cassinetto, and Celeste Guzmán Mendoza. Final award decisions were made by Amazon Literary Partnership and the Academy of American Poets.
The 2023 Poetry Fund grant recipients are:
The 2023 Poetry Fund grant recipients are:
The Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation
In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets
The University of Arizona Poetry Center
“Since 2019, the Academy of American Poets has joined forces with Amazon Literary Partnership to support the tireless work of poetry presses and organizations across the nation. The seventeen recipients of the 2023 Poetry Fund speak to the power poetry has at the grassroots level,” said Ricardo Maldonado, President and Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets. “We’re extremely grateful for the contributions they continue to make in our communities by fostering direct engagement between poetry and its readers, asking us to commit ourselves to more compassionate and engaged futures.”
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The Academy of American Poets | Amazon Literary Partnership (Press Release)
