Academy of American Poets
WALLACE STEVENS AWARD
Afaa Michael Weaver of Hudson Valley, New York, won the 2023 Wallace Stevens Award. Weaver, whose most recent collection is A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen Press Press, 2023), received $100,000. The Academy’s board of chancellors judged. The annual award is given to a poet to “recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.” There is no application process.
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS FELLOWSHIP
Major Jackson of Nashville won the 2023 Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Jackson, whose most recent collection is Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022 (Norton, 2023), received $25,000 and a residency at the T. S. Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Academy’s board of chancellors judged. The annual fellowship is given to an American poet for distinguished poetic achievement. There is no application process.
LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
Ama Codjoe of New York City won the 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions). She received $25,000; a 10-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York; and distribution of her book to members of the Academy of American Poets. Shane McCrae, January Gill O’Neil, and Monica Youn judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. The next deadline is May 15.
RAIZISS/DE PALCHI FELLOWSHIP
Moira Egan of Rome won the 2023 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship for her translation-in-progress of Giorgiomaria Cornelio’s “Letters of Black Fire.” She received $25,000 and a five-week residency at the American Academy in Rome. Jennifer Scappettone, Graziella Sidoli, and John Taylor judged. The fellowship is given biennially to a U.S. translator for a work-in-progress of modern Italian poetry translated into English. The next deadline is March 15, 2025.
JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD
Cyree Jarelle Johnson of Piscataway, New Jersey, won the 2023 James Laughlin Award for Watchnight (Nightboat Books). He received $5,000; an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at the Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida; and distribution of his book to members of the Academy of American Poets. Leila Chatti, John Murillo, and Sam Sax judged. The annual award is given for a poet’s second collection, forth-coming in the next calendar year. The next deadline is May 15.
AMBROGGIO PRIZE
Margarita Pintado Burgos of San Diego, California, and Alejandra Quintana Arocho of New York City won the 2023 Ambroggio Prize for Arocho’s translation of Burgos’s Ojo en Celo/Eye in Heat. They received $1,000, and Arocho’s translation will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2024. Achy Obejas judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. (SEE DEADLINES.)
HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
Stephanie McCarter of Sewanee, Tennessee, won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for her translation from the Latin of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics). She received $1,000. Anna Deeny Morales judged. The annual award is given for a book of poetry translated from any language into English and published in the United States during the previous year. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. Nikay Paredes, Programs Director.
poets.org/academy-american-poets/american-poets-prizes
Airlie Press
AIRLIE PRIZE
Mia Kang of Philadelphia won the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must. She received $1,000, and her book will be published by Airlie Press in early 2025.
The editors judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Airlie Press, Airlie Prize, P.O. Box 13325, Portland, OR 97213.
Arts & Letters
ARTS & LETTERS PRIZES
of New York City won the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry for “More Than Twice,” “Something’s Wrong,” and “Waking This New Year’s Day.” of Durham, England, won the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction for “Pax Americana.” of Tucson won the Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction for “Winchester Street: Living With My Father’s Suicide.” They each received $1,000, and their winning works were published in the 25th anniversary issue of . Rodney Jones judged in poetry, Francesca Ekwuyasi judged in fiction, and Sue William Silverman judged
