The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is administered by the Academy of American Poets selected by the New Hope Foundation in 1994. Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.Funding Opportunities Macmillan :: Books For Adults Books: Professional Association Awards - Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Winner Books
The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support the arts and the cause of world peace"; Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971. Receipt of the prize has been among the distinctions noted by the Library of Congress when the Poet Laureate of the United States is named.
The Prize was initially administered by the Saturday Review magazine. Following the folding of Saturday Review, the Prize was administered by The Nation magazine. In 1995, administration of the Prize became the responsibility of the Academy; the Prize has a permanent endowment. The Prize is still sponsored by The Nation, which usually publishes an article about the poetry of each year's finalists and winner. The cash value of the prize is currently $25,000.
Winners Year Poet Book Judges1975 Cid Corman O/I Hayden Carruth1976 Denise Levertov The Freeing of the Dust Hayden Carruth 1977 Philip Levine The Names of the Lost William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, Charles Wright 1978 Allen Tate Collected Poems, 1919-1976 Alastair Reid, John Hollander, May Swenson1979 Hayden Carruth Brothers, I Loved You All Alastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Mark Strand1980 Stanley Kunitz The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 William Jay Smith, Cynthia Macdonald, Quincy Troupe 1981 Sterling A. Brown The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown Philip Levine, Michael S. Harper, Jean Valentine 1982 John Logan The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980 William Jay Smith, Carolyn Kizer, Paul Zweig 1983 George Starbuck The Argot Merchant Disaster Dana Gioia, May Swenson, Sydney Lea 1984 Josephine Miles Collected Poems, 1930-83 Alfred Corn, Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Justice 1985 John Ashbery A Wave Dave Smith, Rika Lesser, John Hollander 1986 Howard Moss New Selected Poems J. D. McClatchy, Richard Howard, Rachel Hadas 1987 Donald Hall The Happy Man Robert Pinsky, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Douglas Crase 1988 Josephine Jacobsen The Sisters: New & Selected Poems William Jay Smith, Robert Phillips, Katha Pollitt1989 Thomas McGrath Selected Poems, 1938-1988 Amy Clampitt, Richard Kenney, Robert Shaw 1990 Michael Ryan God Hunger William Pritchard, Sydney Lea, Liz Rosenberg 1991 John Haines New Poems, 1980-88 Donald Hall, Josephine Jacobsen, Molly Peacock 1992 Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World Mona Van Duyn, Edward Hirsch, Thomas Lux 1993 Thom Gunn The Man with Night Sweats Robert Pinsky, Carol Muske, James Tate 1994 W. S. Merwin Travels Gerald Stern, Deborah Digges, Stephen Dunn 1995 Marilyn Hacker Winter Numbers Maxine Kumin, Cornelius Eady, Alice Fulton 1996 Charles Wright Chickamauga Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Laurie Sheck 1997 Robert Pinsky The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 Mark Doty, Susan Mitchell, Mary Oliver 1998 Mark Jarman Questions for Ecclesiastes Charles Simic, Chase Twichell, Charles Wright 1999 Wanda Coleman Bathwater Wine Rafael Campo, Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker 2000 David Ferry Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations W. S. Di Piero, Mary Kinzie, Eleanor Wilner 2001 Fanny Howe Selected Poems Elaine Equi, Ann Lauterbach, Bob Perelman 2002 Madeline DeFrees Blue Dusk Joy Harjo, Michael S. Harper, Lawson Inada 2003 Eamon Grennan Still Life with Waterfall Judith Ortiz Cofer, Andrew Hudgins, Robert Wrigley2004 Donald RevellNovember 29, 2004 | The Nation My Mojave Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander, Harryette Mullen 2005 Anne Winters The Displaced of Capital Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, Alan Shapiro 2006 Eleanor Lerman Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds Carl Dennis, Tony Hoagland, Carol Muske-Dukes 2007 Alice Notley Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005 David Baker, Mark McMorris, Marie Ponsot 2008 Henri ColeHenri Cole Wins $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize | Daily News | Poets & Writers Blackbird and Wolf Lucie Brock-Broido, B. H. Fairchild, John Koethe 2009 Linda Gregg All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems Dorianne Laux, J. D. McClatchy, James Richardson2010 John Koethe Ninety-fifth Street Marianne Boruch, David Kirby, John Yau2011 C.D. Wright One With Others Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, D. A. Powell, Martha Ronk2012 David Wojahn World Tree Linda Gregerson, David St. John, Natasha Trethewey2013 Patricia Smith Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Cornelius Eady, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr2014 Rigoberto González Unpeopled Eden Kwame Dawes, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Susan Stewart2015 Kevin Young The Book of Hours Marie Howe, A. Van Jordan, Donald Revell2016 Lynn Emanuel The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected Amy Gerstler, Reginald Gibbons, Kimiko Hahn2017 Patrick Rosal Brooklyn Antediluvian Rigoberto González, Vijay Seshadri, Susan Wheeler2018 Craig Morgan Teicher The Trembling Answers Laura Kasischke, Campbell McGrath, Mary Szybist2019 Kyle Dargan Anagnorisis Major Jackson, Patricia Smith, David Wojahn2020 Hanif Abdurraqib A Fortune for Your Disaster Garrett Hongo, Tim Seibles, Roque Salas Rivera2022Mai Der VangYellow Rain2023Ama CodjoeBluest Nude: Poems
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