Poetry Foundation Individual Poet Fellowships and Awards

Poetry Foundation Individual Poet Fellowships and Awards is sponsored by The Poetry Foundation. Offers a range of fellowships and awards to individual poets, some focused on youth, diversity, or community engagement.

Grants | The Poetry Foundation Poetry Foundation Homepage Poetry Foundation Homepage Poetry Foundation Launched in 2022, the grants program provides general operating support to nonprofit poetry organizations, presses, publications, and select literary arts service and membership organizations based in the U.S. and U.S. territories, reflecting the Foundation’s ongoing commitment to strengthening the field of poetry and fostering sustainability within the literary arts sector.

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Register here General Operating Support The General Operating Support grant program provides unrestricted funding to nonprofit poetry organizations, presses, publications, and select literary arts service and membership organizations to support and strengthen core operations, including staff salaries; rent and utilities; technology; general administrative expenses; marketing, fundraising, and technical support; and hiring new paid staff.

Sustainable Futures Grants The Sustainable Futures Grants provide multi-year operating grants to an invited cohort of past grantee-partners. This initiative is designed to strengthen organizational capacity, expand audiences for poetry, and enhance the sustainability of the field.

By focusing on poetry organizations led by and committed to serving historically underrepresented poets, the fund deepens the Poetry Foundation’s investment in equity and long-term impact within the literary arts.

Special Opportunities Invite Only In addition to general operating support grants, the Poetry Foundation provides limited support for other activities, including sponsoring annual national events that celebrate poets and poetry; supporting Midwest-based poetry initiatives; underwriting poetry fellowships, residencies, and laureateships; and contributing to collaborative funding initiatives such as the Literary Arts Fund.

Who is eligible to apply for the Poetry Foundation grants? How much funding may we request? Does the Foundation have application deadlines?

Grantee-Partner Video Profile: Chicago Poetry Center More about Chicago Poetry Center Meet Our Grantee-Partner: Split This Rock Split This Rock serves as a home for socially engaged poets. Meet Our Grantee-Partner: InsideOut Literary Arts InsideOut Literary Arts guides young people to express themselves, vocalize their challenges, and imagine new possibilities for the future through creative writing.

The Equity in Verse grant program was established in response to the June 6, 2020, community letter asking the Poetry Foundation to address its historic cultural debt to poets of color. This program provided vital support to nonprofit poetry and literary organizations, including presses and publications, that were led and staffed by or serving Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).

Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation The Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation grant program supported nonprofit organizations dedicated to advancing the field of poetry through key priorities, including broadening audiences for poetry, increasing access, fostering new collaborations and partnerships, and driving innovations, such as investments in new technologies.

Building on the COVID-19 pandemic relief funding awarded in 2020 and 2021, the 2022 Renewal and Recovery grant program provided a final round of funding to past recipients to support continued recovery efforts. Other Ways We Fund Poetry The Poetry Foundation offers annual awards that honor and celebrate the accomplishments of poets throughout various stages of their writing careers.

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships are awarded annually to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age. Poetry does not charge fees to submit and it compensates all contributors for work it publishes. Poetry awards prizes annually for work published in the magazine during the preceding year.

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