This is an opportunity for US poets. The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize for “exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present.” Poems could also be submitted in Spanish but must be accompanied by an English translation. Entries must be uploaded to Submittable as .doc, .docx, or .pdf files; and for entries by Performance or Spoken Word poets, most audio formats are accepted. Send one poem.
Value: $1,000; $750; $500
Deadline: 15 November 2025
Open for: US poets
Details here , here, and here (click on the relevant category)
(The Academy of American Poets also has other prizes, including the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, a $1,000 award recognizing a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year, deadline 15 February 2026, details here; the Academy also runs the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship of $25,000 and a residency in Rome to be awarded in 2026 for the translation into English of a significant work of modern Italian poetry by a US poet, deadline 15 February 2026, details here; see all the Academy of American Poets’ prizes here.)

Deadline: November 15th, 2025