• Academy Fellowship
  $25,000 for distinguished poetic achievement
   
• Wallace Stevens Award
  $100,000 to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry
   
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
  $25,000 for the best book of poetry published in the previous year
   
• James Laughlin Award
  $5,000 to recognize and support a poet's second book
   
• Walt Whitman Award
  First-book publication, $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center for an American who has not yet published a book of poetry
   
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
  $5,000 book prize and $20,000 fellowship to recognize outstanding translations into English of modern Italian poetry
   
• Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
  $1,000 for a published translation of poetry from any language into English
   
• University & College Poetry Prizes
  Annual prizes at nearly 200 schools around the country
   
• Past Awards & Grants
  Historical information about awards that are no longer offered by the Academy.

Other Major Poetry Awards
Descriptions and recent winners of notable poetry awards sponsored by other organizations.

Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about awards and contests in general, and the Academy's awards in particular.