Illustrated Timeline: Our First 75 Years
PostedNovember 16, 2009 |

![]() | 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 |