Overview
- The coalition, led by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, committed at least $50 million to be granted over five years.
- Participating funders include Ford, Hawthornden, Lannan, MacArthur, the Poetry Foundation, and one anonymous foundation.
- Jennifer Benka was appointed to lead the fund, drawing on prior roles at the Academy of American Poets and Poets & Writers.
- Applications open November 10 for U.S.-based nonprofit or fiscally sponsored literary organizations and publishers, with guidelines at literaryartsfund.org.
- Grant-size parameters are still being finalized, and the effort will be sustained through the Literary Arts Funders Collaborative, which includes Houston Endowment, Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Fund.