Poets' Prize
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. The founders of the prize were Robert McDowell, Frederick Morgan, and Louis Simpson. The current co-chairs of the prize committee are Robert Archambeau and Marc Vincenz.Winners
Each year links to its corresponding " in poetry" article:
- 2018—Dana Gioia—99 Poems: New and Selected.
- 2017—Ernest Hilbert—Caligulan.
- 2016—Erica Dawson—The Small Blades Hurt.
- 2015—Mary Jo Salter—Nothing by Design.
- 2014—George Green—Lord Byron's Foot.
- 2013—Robert B. Shaw—Aromatics ; David Wojahn—World Tree.
- 2012—Ned Balbo— The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems.
- 2011—Tony Barnstone—Tongue of War.
- 2010—Jane Shore—A Yes-or-No Answer.
- 2009—Ellen Bryant Voigt—Messenger: Selected Poems 1976-2006.
- 2008—A. E. Stallings—Hapax.
- 2007—Brian Turner—Here, Bullet.
- 2006—Catherine Tufariello—Keeping My Name.
- 2005—Robert Wrigley—Lives of the Animals.
- 2004—X. J. Kennedy—The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992-2002.
- 2003—Betty Adcock—Intervale: New and Selected Poems.
- 2002—Robert Mezey—Collected Poems, 1952-1999.
- 2001—Philip Booth—Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999.
- 2000—Wendell Berry—The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry.
- 1999—Marilyn Nelson—The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems.
- 1998—Leon Stokesbury—Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems ; Sydney Lea—To the Bone: New and Selected Poems.
- 1996—Josephine Jacobsen—In the Crevice of Time.
- 1995—Marilyn Hacker—Selected Poems 1965-1990.
- 1994—Jared Carter—After the Rain.
- 1993—Maxine Kumin—Looking for Luck
- 1992—Adrienne Rich—Atlas of the Difficult World ; Dana Gioia—The Gods of Winter.
- 1991—Mark Jarman—The Black Riviera ; John Haines—New Poems: 1980-88.
- 1990—Miller Williams—Living on the Surface.
- 1989—Andrew Hudgins—After the Lost War: a Narrative.
- 1988—Julia Randall—Moving in Memory.
