NH State Poet Laureate Jennifer Militello selected as one of the Academy of American Poets’ 2025 Poet Laureate Fellows

Jennifer Militello, Poet Laureate Fellow of New Hampshire, has been selected as one of the American Academy 2025 Poet Laureate Fellows. AAP announced today that they are awarding $1.1 million to 23 poet laureate fellows across the United States. These fellowships recognize poets laureate for their literary excellence while enabling them to undertake impactful and timely projects that engage their communities through the transformative power of poetry.

In 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. Please see the full press release for more information about Militello’s project, which 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.