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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 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]
Each winning poet receives $2,500 ($1,000 cash prize and $1,500 honorarium for a public reading of the work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison). The winner is announced in February each year. The prize is named for Thomas E. Brittingham and is made possible by a grant from his foundation. A $28.00 non-refundable reading fee must accompany ...
This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least US$100,000 or equivalent. Although global in scope and comprising over 35 awards, most of the prizes are in only four currencies: United Arab Emirates dirham , Swedish krona , Euro , and United States dollar .
The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
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 ...
The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the invitation only Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College.
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]