Jennifer Militello Receives Fellowship from The Academy of American Poets
Jennifer Militello, representing New Hampshire, is one of 23 Poets Laureate chosen to receive a 2025 fellowship from for literary excellence. She received a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy, part of a broader $1.1 million distributed to all fellows to support community-centered poetry projects.
According to The Academy of American Poets,聽鈥渋n partnership with the New Hampshire Book Festival and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, Jennifer Militello will launch the Main Street Poetry Project, which will bring poetry to a broad audience along Main Street in the capital city of Concord, New Hampshire. The project will feature a series of poetry events that are free and open to the public, as well as poems displayed in the windows of fifteen storefronts in Concord in the weeks leading up to the festival. These storefront poems will celebrate not only poems by older, more established New Hampshire poets and contemporary ones but will also include an array of poems written by the state鈥檚 high school students.鈥�
Militello serves as the current Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and as Program Director for NEC鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She is the author of the forthcoming hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen, named a finalist for the 2024 FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize; The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), called 鈥渆motionally resonant鈥� by Publishers Weekly and 鈥渁n incantatory homage to love鈥� by the Times Literary Supplement; and the memoir Knock Wood (Dzanc Books, 2019), winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, as well as four previous collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry.
About the Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is the United States鈥� leading champion of poets and poetry. The organization annually awards more than $1.3 million to poets across the nation. It also operates Poets.org, the world鈥檚 largest publicly funded poetry website, and organizes National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. Additionally, the Academy publishes Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine, provides free educational resources for K鈥�12 educators and adult learners, and leads the Poetry Coalition, a network of organizations dedicated to promoting the vital role of poetry in our culture.
