What does the Academy do today?
Today, the Academy fulfills the first portion of its original mission (“to support American poets at all stages of their careers”) by administering seven major awardsfrom a first-book prize through a lifetime-achievement awardand nearly 200 College Prizes at schools across the country. To fulfill the second half our mission (“to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry”), the Academy administers several programs: Poets.org, this award-winning website which was launched in 1997 and now receives one million unique visitors each month; National Poetry Month (April), established by the Academy in 1996 and now the largest literary celebration in the world; the Online Poetry Classroom, an online resource providing free poetry lesson plans and other tools for teachers; the Poetry Audio Archive, a collection of nearly 500 recordings dating back to the 1960s; and American Poet, our biannual literary journal and magazine for members.
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