2021 American Poets Prizes Announced
The Academy of American Poets has named the winners of the 2021 American Poets Prizes. Toi Derricotte has received the Wallace Stevens Award, given annually to recognize "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry"; the award comes with a stipend of $100,000.
Camille T. Dungy has received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, which "recognizes distinguished poetic achievement," which comes with a stipend of $25,000 and a residency at T.S. Eliot's summer home in Gloucester, Mass. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, which recognizes "the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year" and comes with a $25,000 purse.
In addition, James Cagney has won the James Laughlin Award, Carlos Aguasaco has won the Ambroggio Prize, Maria Dahvana Headley has won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Paula Bohince has been named to the Raiziss/De Palchi Fellowship, and Edwin Williamson has won the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award.
