Academy of American Poets Jobs Board

ABOUT

The Academy of American Poets—the century-old nonprofit behind Poets.org, National Poetry Month, and the Poet Laureate fellowship program—maintains this jobs board as a public service to the literary field. It aggregates openings from presses, magazines, universities, and literary nonprofits (recent listings have included roles at Beacon Press, Apogee, Lambda Literary, and the Poetry Translation Centre) rather than generating original job postings itself. The board functions as a trade bulletin rather than an editorial project: no bylines, no curation commentary, just a running list refreshed on the Academy's schedule.

Listings are compiled weekly (each page is dated, e.g. "Jobs for Poets: July 30, 2026") and pulled largely from what the Academy hears about through its own network and newsletter subscribers. There's no formal submission form for job-seekers—postings come from employers, who submit openings by emailing academy@poets.org for consideration. The board itself charges nothing to browse or to post, and application details (deadlines, pay, process) live on each employer's own site, not on poets.org. It's most useful as a low-friction way to scan for adjacent-to-poetry work—editorial, development, teaching, administrative—rather than as a source of writing or freelance gigs.