Poetry Foundation Awards $1,530,000 in Grants

The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 54 nonprofit organizations that received $1,530,000 in funding in our spring 2024 grant cycle. Selected from more than 200 grant applications, this impressive roster of grantee-partners is committed to increasing access to poetry and supporting poets through providing resources to historically underserved poets and writers, poetry activities for youth, writing workshops for adults, festivals, residencies, publications, and more.

In keeping with the Foundation’s commitment to the principles of trust-based philanthropy, the grants program relies on a community-based proposal review process. One hundred forty members of the arts and culture community applied to serve as grant proposal reviewers. The 22 selected reviewers made funding recommendations to the Poetry Foundation's internal committee, which consists of the president, chief operating officer, vice president of programs and engagement, director of grants and awards, and grants and awards assistant.

Of the 54 organizations funded this grant cycle, 30 (56%) received Equity in Verse grants. Twenty-one (38%) received Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation grants, and three (6%) received Special Opportunity grants. Thirty-two (59%) of the awarded grants are for general operating support and 39 (72%) of the awarded organizations are BIPOC-led.

Congratulations to the Poetry Foundation’s new and returning grantee-partners! 

The Foundation’s next cycle of Equity in Verse and Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation grants will open in mid-June 2024 with a September 1, 2024 deadline. For more information, please visit PoetryFoundation.org/Grants.

Spring 2024 Grantee-Partners:

• Academy of American Poets, New York, $40,000
• Alegria Bilingual Bookstores & Arts Collective, California, $25,000
• Alice James Books, Maine, $30,000
• American Poetry Museum, Washington, D.C., $15,000
• Artes de México en Utah, Utah, $20,000
• Bamboo Ridge Press, Hawaii, $35,000
• Burst Into Books, Illinois, $25,000
• CantoMundo, Arizona, $20,000
• Cardboard House Press, Rhode Island, $40,000
• Cave Canem, New York, $55,000
• Community Literature Initiative, California, $40,000
• Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, New York, $60,000
• Flood Editions, Illinois, $15,000
• Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, Virginia, $40,000
• Futurepoem, New York, $10,000
• Griot Collective of West Tennessee, Tennessee, $15,000
• Infrarrealista Review, Texas, $15,000
• John Walt Foundation, Illinois, $20,000
• Kuumba Lynx, Illinois, $40,000
• Letras Latinas at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, $35,000
• Lucky Jefferson, Illinois, $10,000
• Lugar Comun, Florida, $25,000
• MacDowell Foundation, New Hampshire, $25,000
• MAKE Literary Productions, Illinois, $25,000
• Nightboat Books, New York, $30,000
• Noemi Press, Arizona, $40,000
• Northwest New Mexico Arts Council, New Mexico, $15,000
• O, Miami, Florida, $35,000
• One Book One New Orleans, Louisiana, $10,000
• People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos, New Jersey, $20,000
• Poets House, New York, $50,000
• Puha Hubiya, New Mexico, $15,000
• Reading Between the Lines, Illinois, $35,000
• Shout Mouse Press, Washington, D.C., $25,000
• Sinister Wisdom, Florida, $15,000
• Small Press Traffic, California, $20,000
• Street Poets, California, $30,000
• Sundress Publications,Tennessee, $10,000
• Teachers and Writers Collaborative, New York, $30,000
• The Beautiful Project, North Carolina, $30,000
• The Care Center, Massachusetts, $35,000
• The Philly Pigeon, Pennsylvania, $20,000
• Third World Press, Illinois, $25,000
• Torch Literary Arts, Texas, $40,000
• Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, $25,000
• Woodland Pattern, Wisconsin, $45,000
• WordPlay Cincy, Ohio, $20,000
• Words Beats & Life, Washington, D.C., $30,000
• Words of the People, Oklahoma, $35,000
• Words To Power, Colorado, $20,000
• Words Without Borders, New York, $25,000
• World Poetry Books, New York, $35,000
• Young Chicago Authors, Illinois, $45,000
• Youth Speaks, California, $40,000