Poetry Foundation Awards $1 Million in Grants

The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the 39 nonprofit organizations that received $1,000,000 in funding in our fall 2024 grant cycle. Selected from 233 grant applications, these organizations are committed to increasing access to poetry and supporting poets through publishing and providing public events and workshops for youth and adults.

In keeping with the Foundation’s commitment to the principles of trust-based philanthropy, the grants program relies on a community-based proposal review process. Nineteen community reviewers read, scored, and deliberated the applications and made funding recommendations to the Poetry Foundation's internal committee, which consists of the president, chief operating officer, vice president of programs and engagement, director of grants and awards, and grants and awards assistant.

Of the 39 organizations funded this grant cycle:

• 20 (51%) received Equity in Verse grants.
• 19 (49%) received Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation grants. 
• 29 (74%) of the awarded grants are for general operating support.
• 21 (54%) of the awarded organizations are BIPOC-led.

Congratulations to the Poetry Foundation’s new and returning grantee-partners! 

December 2024 marks the conclusion of the Poetry Foundation’s initial three-year commitment to grantmaking. The Foundation will be announcing a new grantmaking strategy in early 2025 with updated priorities, eligibility guidelines, and deadlines. We will send this update to all organizations that have applied for previous funding through our grants and award application system. For more information, please visit PoetryFoundation.org/Grants.

Fall 2024 Grantee-Partners:

• 826CHI, Illinois, $20,000
• American Poetry Museum, Washington, D.C., $15,000
• Atelos, New York, $10,000
• Brew & Forge, Massachusetts, $15,000
• CavanKerry Press, New Jersey, $20,000
• Chicago Poetry Center, Illinois, $50,000
• CityLit Project, Maryland, $40,000
• City of Asylum/Detroit, Michigan, $10,000
• ConTextos, Illinois, $30,000
• contratiempo, Illinois, $15,000
• Foglifter Press, California, $10,000
• Gemini Ink, Texas, $20,000
• Green Linden Press, Iowa, $5,000
• Guild Literary Complex, Illinois, $40,000
• Hermitage Artist Retreat, Florida, $20,000
• Hub City Writers Project, South Carolina, $30,000
• In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets, Wisconsin, $50,000
• InsideOut Literary Arts, Michigan, $30,000
• Kalamazoo Poetry Festival, Michigan, $15,000
• Mass Poetry, Massachusetts, $40,000
• Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, Minnesota, $40,000
• National Poetry Series, New Jersey, $25,000
• Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora at Illinois State University, Illinois, $50,000
• O, Miami, Florida, $40,000
• Poetic Justice, Oklahoma, $40,000
• Poetry Online, Minnesota, $10,000
• Public Poetry, Texas, $10,000
• Radical Reversal, New Jersey, $40,000
• RHINO Poetry, Illinois, $10,000
• SISTORIES, North Carolina, $20,000
• Snow City Arts, Illinois, $10,000
• Split This Rock, Washington, D.C., $40,000
• Stomping Grounds Literary Arts Initiative, Illinois, $25,000
• Sundress Publications, Tennessee, $10,000
• Taller Communidad La Goyco, Puerto Rico, $45,000
• The Watering Hole Poetry Organization, South Carolina, $25,000
• Third World Press Foundation, Illinois, $25,000
• Under the Volcano, New York, $25,000
• WriteGirl, California, $25,000