$2.7M in expenses

Awards and prizes:the academy administered and awarded poetry prizes to poets at all stages of their careers through various programs, including the poets laureate fellowships, the poetry fund through amazon literary partnerships, the wallace stevens award, the academy of american poets fellowship, the lenore marshall prize, the james laughlin award, the first book award, the harold morton landon translation award, the american poets emergency fund, and the treehouse climate action poetry prize. Additionally, the academy provided student prizes at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide.poetry coalition:the academy served as the coordinator and fiscal administrator of the poetry coalition, an intentionally inclusive alliance of thirty organizations, most of which are led by working, published poets who also serve as arts administrators. Each of these organizations employs paid staff who are published poets, with a primary mission to promote poets and poetry. Many are multi-genre literary organizations that serve poets and readers of all backgrounds.

$529K in expenses

Website:launched in 1996, poets.org is the award-winning website of the academy of american poets. Visitors to poets.org will find thousands of poems, along with hundreds of poets' biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings, with new materials constantly added. Additionally, the site offers resources such as a national events calendar and poetry lesson plans for teachers. With more than 17 million visits each year, poets.org is one of the most popular poetry websites on the internet.

$193K in expenses

The american poets magazine:launched in 1996, american poets magazine is published twice annually, in april and october, exclusively for members of the academy of american poets. This magazine reaches devoted readers and writers of poetry and literature, students of poetry, some of the most renowned and respected poets of our time, and some of the nation's most generous patrons of poetry.

$856K in expenses

Additional programs:other key initiatives include the poetry coalition, education programs for high school students and adult learners, national poetry month, a reading series, and a memberships program.