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In 2005, the creation of the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards was announced at the WCU Poetry Conference. [2] Kean W. Spencer provided the initial endowment of $250,000. [3] Though not a poet himself, Spencer did win the prestigious Hopwood Award for poetry from the University of Michigan as a young man. [2]
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry – offered by the Library of Congress for the best book of poetry published by a living U.S. author during the preceding two years Bollingen Prize – offered by Yale University every two years to one or more living U.S. poets for the best collection published in that period, or for lifetime achievement in poetry
The Lyric Poetry Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America and was "established under the will of PSA member Mrs. Consuelo Ford , and also in memory of Mary Carolyn Davies, for a lyric poem on any subject." [1] Each winner receives a $500 prize. [1]
The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press.. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and author of short stories and former vice-president of the society. [1]
The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the invitation only Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College.
The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry is an award of $5,000 and publication. The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction is an award of $5,000 and publication. Winners in the novel and creative nonfiction categories receive a $2,000 cash honorarium and publication.
Each year the prize attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 countries. The prize is judged anonymously by a single poet. Past judges include Hannah Sullivan (2024), [ 1 ] Nobel Laureate Louise Glück (2023), [ 2 ] Warsan Shire (2022), [ 3 ] Jacob Polley (2019), [ 4 ] Claudia Rankine , Marie Howe , Deborah ...
Harriet Monroe, founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, wrote in an editorial (Apr.-Sept., 1922), "The award of a Pulitzer Prize of one thousand dollars to the Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson is a most agreeable surprise, as this is the first Pulitzer Prize ever granted to a poet.