Academy of American Poets Announces 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows

The Academy of American Poets will award $50,000 to each of its 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows for a combined total of $1.1 million. Fellows currently serve as poets laureate of states, counties, and cities across the U.S. and will lead public poetry programs in their respective communities in the coming year. 

The Poet Laureate Fellowship is made possible by the Mellon Foundation, which awarded the Academy of American Poets two grants to fund the program.

The 2023 Fellows are as follows:

• Diannely Antigua (Portsmouth, NH)

• Lisa Bickmore (Utah)

• Jennifer Bartell Boykin (Columbia, SC)

• Joseph Bruchac (Saratoga Springs, NY)

• Lauren Camp (New Mexico)

• Laura Da’ (Redmond, WA)

• Oliver de la Paz (Worcester, MA)

• Farnaz Fatemi (Santa Cruz County, CA)

• Nicholas Gulig (Fort Atkinson, WI)

• Peter J. Harris and Carla Rachel Sameth (Altadena, CA)

• Taylor Johnson (Takoma Park, MD)

• Yalie Saweda Kamara (Cincinnati, OH)

• Brandy Nālani McDougall (Hawaiʻi)

• Gloria Muñoz (St. Petersburg, FL)

• Sharon Kennedy-Nolle (Sullivan County, NY)

• Shin Yu Pai (Seattle, WA)

• Willie Perdomo (New York)

• Jason Magabo Perez (San Diego, CA)

• Glenis Redmond (Greenville, SC)

• Erin Elizabeth Smith (Oak Ridge, TN)

• Junious Ward (Charlotte, NC)

• Joaquín Zihuatanejo (Dallas, TX)