Poets' Prize
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The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. The $3000 annual prize is donated by a committee of about 20 American poets, who each nominate two books and who also serve as judges. The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City hosts the annual awards reception in May, which includes readings by the winner and finalists.{{cite web |title=University of Arkansas Press Poet Wins the Poets' Prize |work=Arkansas Newswire |url=http://newswire.uark.edu/article.aspx?id=12769 |date=February 20, 2002 |accessdate=October 29, 2011}} The founders of the prize were Robert McDowell, Frederick Morgan, and Louis Simpson. [https://archive.today/20120709162046/http://choriamb.livejournal.com/2007/04/20/ "This year the Poets' Prize goes to....,"] Choriamb: Poetry News and Reviews , April 20, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2007. The current co-chairs of the prize committee are Robert Archambeau and Marc Vincenz.
Winners
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 2018—Dana Gioia—99 Poems: New and Selected (Graywolf Press, 2016).
- 2017—Ernest Hilbert—Caligulan (Measure Press, 2015).{{cite web |title=Ernest Hilbert wins 2017 Poets’ Prize! |date=May 22, 2017 |publisher=Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers |url=http://alscw.org/news/ernest-hilbert-wins-2017-poets-prize/ |accessdate=October 1, 2017}}
- 2016—Erica Dawson—The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, 2014).{{cite web |title=Erica Dawson wins 2016 Poets' Prize|url= http://www.measurepress.com/measure/index.php/news?date=201603/ |publisher=Measure Press|date=March 25, 2016}}
- 2015—Mary Jo Salter—Nothing by Design (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013).{{cite web |title=Writing Seminars Faculty Honored in 2015 Poets' Prize Competition|url=http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/2015/03/02/writing-seminars-faculty-honored-in-2015-poets-prize-competition/ |publisher=Johns Hopkins University|date=March 2, 2015}}
- 2014—George Green—Lord Byron's Foot (St. Augustine's Press, 2012).{{cite web |title=George Green |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/george-green |accessdate=October 5, 2014}}
- 2013—Robert B. Shaw—Aromatics (Pinyon Press, 2011); David Wojahn—World Tree (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011).{{cite web |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/shaw-awarded-2013-poets’-prize |title=Shaw Awarded 2013 Poets' Prize |date=March 28, 2013 |publisher=Mount Holyoke College}}
- 2012—Ned Balbo— The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press, 2010).{{cite web |url=http://www.loyola.edu/news/2012/0501-balbo-poets-award|title=Writing Professor Wins Poets' Prize |date=May 1, 2012 |publisher=Loyola University Maryland}}
- 2011—Tony Barnstone—Tongue of War (BkMk Press, 2009).{{cite web|url=http://info.umkc.edu/umatters/2011/02/22/bkmk-press-author-wins-poets-prize/ |title=BkMk Press author wins Poets’ Prize |date=February 22, 2011 |publisher=University of Missouri – Kansas City |accessdate=April 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818131627/http://info.umkc.edu/umatters/2011/02/22/bkmk-press-author-wins-poets-prize/ |archivedate=August 18, 2011 }}
- 2010—Jane Shore—A Yes-or-No Answer (Houghton Mifflin, 2008).{{cite news |title=GW professor Jane Shore wins prestigious writing award |last=Price |first=Jennifer |work=GW Today |publisher=the George Washington University |date=June 20, 2010 |url=http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/people/personalpoetry |accessdate=April 14, 2011}}
- 2009—Ellen Bryant Voigt—Messenger: Selected Poems 1976–2006 (Norton, 2007).{{cite web |title=Ellen Bryant Voigt Wins 2009 Poets' Prize |last=Byrne |first=Edward |url=http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2009/05/ellen-bryant-voigt-wins-2009-poets.html |work=One Poet's Notes |date=May 7, 2009}}
- 2008—A. E. Stallings—Hapax (Triquarterly, 2006).{{cite magazine |title=Staff & Contacts |magazine=Atlanta Review |url=http://www.atlantareview.com/page11.html |accessdate=August 6, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802101609/http://www.atlantareview.com/page11.html |archivedate=August 2, 2016 }}
- 2007—Brian Turner—Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005).{{cite news|title=Brian Turner |work=Weekend America |publisher=American Public Media |year=2009 |url=http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/archive/author_archive.php?aut_id=30384 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704084028/http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/archive/author_archive.php?aut_id=30384 |archivedate=July 4, 2010 }}
- 2006—Catherine Tufariello—Keeping My Name (Texas Tech University Press, 2004).
- 2005—Robert Wrigley—Lives of the Animals (Penguin, 2003).
- 2004—X. J. Kennedy—The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992–2002 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
- 2003—Betty Adcock—Intervale: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
- 2002—Robert Mezey—Collected Poems, 1952–1999 (University of Arkansas Press, 2001).
- 2001—Philip Booth—Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950–1999 (Viking Penguin, 1999).
- 2000—Wendell Berry—The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint Press, 1998).
- 1999—Marilyn Nelson—The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1997).
- 1998—Leon Stokesbury—Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems (University of Arkansas Press, 1996); Sydney Lea—To the Bone: New and Selected Poems (Illinois University Press, 1996).
- 1996—Josephine Jacobsen—In the Crevice of Time (Johns Hopkins University, 1995).
- 1995—Marilyn Hacker—Selected Poems 1965–1990 (Norton, 1994).
- 1994—Jared Carter—After the Rain (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1993).
- 1993—Maxine Kumin—Looking for Luck (W. W. Norton and Co., 1992)
- 1992—Adrienne Rich—Atlas of the Difficult World (W. W. Norton and Co, 1991); Dana Gioia—The Gods of Winter (Graywolf, 1991).
- 1991—Mark Jarman—The Black Riviera (Wesleyan University Press, 1990); John Haines—New Poems: 1980–88 (Story Line Press, 1990).
- 1990—Miller Williams—Living on the Surface (Louisiana State University, 1989).
- 1989—Andrew Hudgins—After the Lost War: a Narrative (Houghton-Mifflin, 1988).
- 1988—Julia Randall—Moving in Memory (Louisiana State University Press, 1987).