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The Poetry Passport

Help Put Poets on the Map.

The Poetry Passport is a traveling-poet media project built to discover, connect, and amplify poets and creative communities from city to city. Your support helps turn the journey into stories, performances, conversations, and opportunities for poets to be seen and heard.

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Fuel the Journey

Every Journey Needs Fuel.

Individual supporters can contribute any amount to help offset the costs of producing and traveling for The Poetry Passport.

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Support may help cover

  • Transportation
  • Lodging
  • Meals / per diem
  • Production equipment and supplies
  • Content production
  • Local transportation
  • Printing and promotional materials
  • Poet and community features
  • Travel-related operating expenses

Sponsorship

Put a Poet on the Map.

Sponsorship levels are starting points — amounts and benefits are shaped together with each sponsor.

Poet Stop Sponsor

Put a Poet on the Map.

Starting at $500

Supporters, businesses, and organizations can help underwrite an individual poet and city feature — putting a poet on the map.

  • Recognition connected to a poet/city feature
  • Editable benefit — replace with agreed deliverables
  • Editable benefit — replace with agreed deliverables

City Sponsor

Bring The Poetry Passport to Your City.

Starting at $1,000

City-level sponsorship can help support production, promotion, and activities connected to a Poetry Passport city feature.

  • Visibility tied to a city feature
  • Editable benefit — replace with agreed deliverables
  • Editable benefit — replace with agreed deliverables

Journey Sponsor

Fuel the Journey at a Larger Scale.

Starting at $2,500+

Larger sponsors can support the overall journey and receive customized visibility and partnership opportunities.

  • Customized visibility across the journey
  • Partnership opportunities shaped around your goals
  • Editable benefit — replace with agreed deliverables

Partnerships

Let's Build Something Together.

Partnerships can be customized around your organization's goals and the Poetry Passport journey.

Who we build with

  • Brands
  • Hotels
  • Travel companies
  • Bookstores
  • Publishers
  • Universities
  • Libraries
  • Arts organizations
  • Tourism organizations
  • Cultural organizations
  • Creative platforms
  • Community organizations

Impact

What Support Makes Possible

Poets

Discovering and featuring poets.

Stories

Capturing the people and stories behind the poetry.

Performances

Bringing poetry to life on camera and on stage.

Communities

Connecting creative voices across cities.

Media

Creating videos, interviews, livestreams, and future media projects.

Opportunity

Helping poets reach audiences and opportunities beyond their immediate communities.

The Mission

Put poets on the map.

One Poet. One Journey. One Community at a Time.

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