The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, in honor of Samuel French Morse, is a literary award given to an American author's first or second book of poetry.
The annual prize was established in 1983 and sponsored by Northeastern University. Once selected by a recognized poet, the awarded poet received $1000, and the work received publication by Northeastern University Press, and distribution through the University Press of New England. Prize-winning books were published with a striped cover design, characteristic of the Morse Poetry Prize.
The award was suspended in 2009, due to difficulties with financial sustainability.
Winners 2009: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Tulips, Water, Ash, Judge: Jean Valentine 2008: Dana Roeser, In the Truth Room 2007: Virginia Chase Sutton, What Brings You to Del Amo 2005: Roy Jacobstein, A Form of Optimism 2004: Annie Boutelle, Nest of Thistles 2003: Dana Roeser, Beautiful Motion: Poems 2002: Chris Forhan, The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars 2001: Catherine Sasanov, All the Blood Tethers 2000: Ted Genoways, Bullroarer: A Sequence 1999: Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City 1998: James Haug, Walking Liberty 1997: Jeffrey Greene, American Spirituals 1996: Charles Harper Webb, Reading the Water 1995: Michelle Boisseau, Understory 1994: Allison Funk, Living at the Epicenter 1993: David Moolten, Plums and Ashes 1992: Don Boes, The Eighth Continent 1991: Carl Phillips, In the Blood 1990: George Mills, The House Sails Out of Sight of Home 1989: J. Allyn Rosser, Bright Moves 1988: Lucia Perillo, Dangerous Life 1987: Frank Gaspar, The Holyoke 1986: Sue Ellen Thompson, This Body of Silk 1985: William Carpenter, Rain 1984: Susan Donnelly, Eve Names the Animals, Judge: Anthony Hecht
See also American poetry List of poetry awards List of literary awards List of years in poetry List of years in literature
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