Academy Of American Poets Receives Historic $2.2 Million To Bolster Poetry Organizations And Local Poets Laureate's Projects by BWW News Desk
- January 15, 2019 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.