James Laughlin Award#Lamont Poetry Selections (1976–1995)

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The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book. The award is given by the Academy of American Poets, and is noted as one of the major prizes awarded to younger poets in the United States.

{{cite book |title=Poetic Culture |last=Beach |first=Christopher |page=40 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-8101-1678-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96T11PV4qosC&pg=PA40 |quote=The vast majority of those winning the major awards for younger poets over the last two decades (Guggenheims, Lamont prizes, the National Poetry Series, for example) have held graduate degrees in creative writing.}} It is currently named after James Laughlin, an American poet and editor who founded New Directions Publishing, the distributor of English-translated Siddhartha. In 1959, Harvey Shapiro referred to the award as "roughly, a Pulitzer for bardlings."{{cite news |last=Shapiro |first=Harvey |title=The Timbre of Three New Voices |date=August 9, 1959 |work=The New York Times |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A14FE3E5F1A7B93CBA91783D85F4D8585F9 |accessdate=2009-05-15}}