Amy Lowell Poetry 2023 Traveling Scholarship for International Students for Course

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be citizens of the United States by virtue either of birth within the United States or of birth outside the United States to a U.S. citizen parent.
• Any poet of American birth who is able and willing to spend one year outside the continent of North America.
• There is no age requirement, and there is no requirement that applicants be enrolled in a university or other education programme.
• While many recent winners have been published poets, there is no requirement that applicants have previously published their work.

Offered Benefits

• The 2023-2024 Scholarship award will be approximately $66,500, adjusted for inflation. If there are two winners, each will receive the full amount. This is a poetry contest. The money won is generally spent on travel and living expenses.

Application Process

In order to apply, mail to:

Charles A. Cheever and William A. Lowell
Trustees under the Will of Amy Lowell
Choate, Hall & Stewart, LLP
2 International Place
Boston, MA 02110

the following:

• Two copies of the completed  application. You may also, but need not, submit a 2 to 3 page curriculum vitae (again, two copies).
• A sample of your poetry, consisting of either
  • up to 40 typed pages (two copies) or
  • two copies of a printed volume of your poetry and two copies of no more than 20 additional typed pages.