The Academy of American Poets was founded by Marie Bullock

First Fellowship awarded to Edwin Markham; First issue of Doggerel, the Academy's official newsletter, published

New York World's Fair Official Poem selected

Board of Chancellors created; Annual Fellowships begin with award to Edgar Lee Masters

E. E. Cummings receives Fellowship

First ten schools selected for University & College Prize program; Lamont Award for best first book established

William Carlos Williams receives Fellowship

Robert Frost speaks at 25th anniversary celebration

First anthology of College Prize winners published, including Sylvia Plath

Guggenheim Museum reading series begins; John Berryman gives the first reading of the Dream Songs

Poets-in-the-Schools program begins; National Reading Circuits program launched

Edgar Allan Poe featured first in a new series of U.S. postage stamps honoring poets; Library of Congress exhibit for 35th Anniversary

Poetry in the Parks

High-school Poetry Workshops begin; Marilyn Hacker receives Lamont Award

Mark Strand receives Edgar Allan Poe Award; Robert Lowell receives Copernicus Award

Annual award for best second book established and given to Lisel Mueller

First annual Landon Award for best book of translated poetry given to Robert Fitzgerald

First Lavan Younger Poets Award goes to Edward Hirsch

A Poets' Celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge Centenary

American Poets Fund created for poets in need

Southwestern Poetry festival held in Arizona

National Reading Series launched; John Haines and others present at the Alaskan Poetry Festival in Fairbanks

Asian American Poetry Festival begins; writers on the Environment program

National reading tour with Chinese dissident poets

Poet Laureate Rita Dove reads at Cathedral of St. John the Divine with Nobel Laureates Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, & Octavio Paz

First annual Wallace Stevens Award of $100,000 for lifetime achievement given to W. S. Merwin; Lenore Marshall Award for best poetry book of the year moved to the Academy

Poets.org, first poetry website initiated; Raiziss / de Palchi Italian Translation awards established

First National Poetry Month; American Poet magazine launched; First Eric Mathieu King Awards support publication of poetry books, including Lucille Clifton's, Muriel Rukeyser's, and others

White House Millennium evening of poetry

Poet's View documentary film series launched

Online Poetry Classroom goes live

Poetry & the Creative Mind annual benefit reading launched at Lincoln Center with Meryl Streep, Jessye Norman, William Styron, and others; National Poetry Map debuts on Poets.org

Poetry Audio Archive released on CD; Poetry Gift Shop opened online

Poets.org redesigned and expanded; Poetry in Bryant Park reading series launched

How to Eat a Poem anthology published for young readers; National Poetry Read-a-Thon launched

First annual Poets Forum held; Poetry Audio Archive digitized

First national Poem in Your Pocket Day; Mobile version of Poets.org launched; Poetry from the Rooftops summer reading series started

Abrams publishes Poem in Your Pocket anthology; Academy celebrates 75th Anniversary