The Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize is offered annually to a previously-unpublished poet by the Wick Poetry Center, which is affiliated with Kent State University. Founded by Maggie Anderson and now administered by David Hassler, the prize awards the winner with $2,500 and publication of their first full-length book of poetry by the Kent State University Press. The winner spends a week in residence at the Wick Poetry Center, the 112-year-old home of faculty emeritus May Prentice, giving master classes to university students and community members, culminating in a reading giving together with the competition's judge on the Kent State campus.
Recipients 2022: Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi; Tracy K. Smith, Judge 2021: How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore; Richard Blanco, Judge 2020: On This Side of the Desert by Alfredo Aguilar; Natalie Diaz, judge 2019: The Many Names for Mother by ; Ellen Bass, judge 2018: Fugue Figure by Michael McKee Green; Khaled Mattawa, judge 2017: Even Years by Christine Gosnay; Angie Estes, judge 2016: hover over her by Leah Poole Osowski; Adrian Matejka, judge 2015: Translation by Matthew Minicucci; Jane Hirshfield, judge 2014: The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf; Mark Doty, judge 2013: West by Carolyn Creedon; Edward Hirsch, judge 2012: The Dead Eat Everything by Michael Mlekoday; Dorianne Laux, judge 2011: The Local World by Mira Rosenthal; Maggie Anderson, judge 2010: Visible Heavens by Joanna Solfrian; Naomi Shihab Nye, judge 2009: The Infirmary by Edward Mincus; Stephen Dunn, judge 2008: Far From Algiers by Djelloul Marbook; Toi Derricotte, judge 2007: Constituents of Matter by Anna Leahy; Alberto Rios, judge 2006: Intaglio by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis; Eleanor Wilner, judge 2005: Trying to Speak by Anele Rubin; Philip Levine, judge 2004: Rooms and Fields by Lee Peterson; Jean Valentine, judge 2003: The Drowned Girl by Eve Alexandra; C.K. Williams, judge 2002: Back Through Interruption by Kate Northrop; Lynn Emanuel, judge 2001: Paper Cathedrals by Morri Creech; Li-Young Lee, judge 2000: The Gospel of Barbeque by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Lucille Clifton, judge 1999: Beyond the Velvet Curtain by Karen Kovacik; Henry Taylor, judge 1998: The Apprentice of Fever by Richard Tayson; Marilyn Hacker, judge 1997: Intended Place by Rosemary Willey; Yusef Komunyakaa, judge 1996: Likely by Lisa Coffman; Alicia Suskin Ostriker, judge 1995: Already the World by Victoria Redel; Gerald Stern, judge
External links First book archive and entry requirements Wick First Book series, Kent State University Press Wick Poetry Center on Twitter
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