Agnes Scott College
Prize Name: Janef Preston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Agnes Scott College
2018 Prizewinner: Molly Armato McDaniel, “A Gentleman Is Simply a Patient Wolf”
University of Alabama
Prize Name: Hill-Kohn Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: University of Alabama
2018 Prizewinner: J.Lyte, “Workshoppin”
Amherst College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: Trustees of Amherst College
2018 Prizewinner: Irisdelia Garcia, “To the 4,645 Dead In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria or Dear Maria”
Aquinas College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mrs. Linda Nemec Foster
2018 Prizewinner: Kirsten Fedorowicz, “Wednesdays at Camp”
Arizona State University
Prize Name: Katharine C. Turner Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Katharine C. Turner
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arizona
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Arizona
2018 Prizewinner: Gabriel Oladipo, “Kim”
University of Arkansas
Prize Name: C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2018
Donor: Geffrey Davis
2018 Prizewinner: Peter Mason, “Water, Water Everywhere”
Auburn University
Prize Name: Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2018 Prizewinner: Nick Stanovick, “Survivors Guilt”
Augsburg University
Prize Name: John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mrs. Jeanette Mitchell
2018 Prizewinner: Matt Peckham, “Grid System”
Bard College
Prize Name: The Flow Chart Foundation/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: David Kermani, The Flow Chart Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Yuma Carpenter-New, “In Eras”
Baylor University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Beall Poetry Festival
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Beloit College
Prize Name: Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Ms. Marion Stocking
2018 Prizewinner: Sean Beckford, “When My Father Hits a Crosscourt Forehand”
Bennington College
Prize Name: The Green Prize for Poetry
Founded: 2006
Donor: Kelly Green & Forrest MacGregor
2018 Prizewinner: Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio, “Little Iceberg”
Bergen Community College
Prize Name: The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Steven W. Chung
2018 Prizewinner: Charlie Orlando Leppert, “Birds & G-d Over New Jersey Turnpike”
Boston University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Boston University Creative Writing Program
2018 Prizewinner: Daniel Hardisty, “Exit Wound”
Bowdoin College
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mr. Jack Miller
2018 Prizewinner: June Daowen Lei, “Isotope”
Bradley University
Prize Name: Sipple Poetry Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Bradley University
2018 Prizewinner: Megan Nicole Landre, “henrichemont”
Brandeis University
Prize Name: The Ramon Feliciano Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Marian McDonald
2018 Prizewinner: Sarah Terrazano, “Self-Portrait With Rescue Inhaler”
Brigham Young University
Prize Name: Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Ethel Lowry Handley
2018 Prizewinner: Lindsey Keller, “Everyone Is Making Love”
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Prize Name: Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Burton Goldberg
2018 Prizewinner: Amanda Jerido-Katz, “A God Like Me”
Brown University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
2018 Prizewinner: Victoria Yin, “1997”
Bryn Mawr College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Founded: 1957
Donor: Mrs. Peter McCormick
2018 Prizewinner: Peyton Moriarty, “Wax Hand Holding”
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: The Friends of Larry Levis
2018 Prizewinner: Aidan Steele Castro, “Hospital”
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Prize Name: Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: The Friends of Ernesto Trejo
2018 Prizewinner: Jessica Turney, “Forgiveness”
California State University, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: California State University, Los Angeles
2018 Prizewinner: Amy Nicole Robb, “Saturday Morning”
California State University, Northridge
Prize Name: George Dillon Memorial Award
Founded: 1968
Donor: California State University, Northridge
2018 Prizewinner: Jesse Clemens, “Psalm of the Son”
University of California, Berkeley
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Mary Wilson, “Untitled”
University of California, Davis
Prize Name: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Prof. Celeste Turner Wright
2018 Prizewinner: Kristin George Bagdanov, “unfield”
University of California, Irvine
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: Mr. Walter J. Thomson
2018 Prizewinner: Inez Tan, “Sanctuary”
University of California, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Ms. Joan LaBombard
2018 Prizewinner: Jesslyn Whittell, “Read this after the feast”
California Polytechnic State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: California Polytechnic State University
2018 Prizewinner: Morgan Condict, “To an Old Coworker”
Calvin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Calvin College
2018 Prizewinner: ethan hohn, “the water seems murkier now”
Carnegie Mellon University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1977
Donor: Carnegie Mellon University
2018 Prizewinner: Summer Jade Leavitt, “Carol”
Central Michigan University
Prize Name: Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Phillip Sterling
2018 Prizewinner: Rui Wang, “Looking Back at Mountains After Mountains”
Central Pennsylvania College
Prize Name: Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: Malcolm Fox, “Little Man”
Centre College
Prize Name: Paul Cantrell Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Phillip Sterling
2018 Prizewinner: Aja Leachman, “Black Porcelain”
Chatham University
Prize Name: The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laurie and Henry Reich
2018 Prizewinner: Hannah Highsmith Cloninger, “Baiting”
University of Cincinnati (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Danny Rader, “A Little Taste of Home”
University of Cincinnati (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: James Ellenberger, “The World Below”
The City College of San Francisco
Prize Name: The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Mrs. Felicia Farr Lemmon
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cleveland State University
Prize Name: Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Cleveland State University
2018 Prizewinner: Xan Schwartz, “Coop Song (n., n., n.)”
Colorado State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Colorado State University Faculty & Administration
2018 Prizewinner: Katherine Indermaur, “BEFORE: An Aubade”
Columbia College Chicago
Prize Name: Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Leonard Morrison, “California State Route 1”
Columbia University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Anonymous
2018 Prizewinner: Rebecca Teich, “Ananimal”
Columbia University (graduate)
Prize Name: Bennett Poetry Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: The New York Times Advertising Department
2018 Prizewinner: Coco Wilder, “The Problem of Patience”
Connecticut College
Prize Name: Charles B. Palmer Poetry Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: Connecticut College
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cooper Union
Prize Name: Elizabeth Kray Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Cooper Union
2018 Co-prizewinners: Saige Hopkins, “There is a hot light” & Amanda Lombardo, “In The Elevator”
Cornell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Clyde and Jewell Bothwell Tull
Founded: 1990
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2018 Prizewinner: Adriana Pacha, “Chile”
Cornell University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Litowitz Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Creighton University
Prize Name: Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Isabelle Senechal, “Kassandras”
Dartmouth College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Dartmouth College
2018 Prizewinner: Courtney Niamh McKee, “Apollo”
University of Delaware
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Jasmine Edwards, “Love in Color”
University of Denver
Prize Name: Edward M. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Dickinson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Dickinson College
2018 Prizewinner: Kayleigh Rhatigan, “My Grandmother's Teeth”
Drew University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Susan Vartanian Barba
2018 Prizewinner: Kerenn Irias, “Before I Sleep”
Duke University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Biddle Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Caroline Fernelius, “Girls”
Elizabethtown College
Prize Name: The Raymond and Mausolene Stouffer Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Emerson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Emerson College
2018 Prizewinner: Brandon Melendez, “serpent crown lined with marrow”
Emory University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The Friends of Creative Writing
2018 Prizewinner: Christell Victoria Roach, “On the End of Mango Season, and Still Falling Fruit”
Florida International University
Prize Name: Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. John Bond
2018 Prizewinner: Bertha Isabel Crombet, “The Library”
Florida State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: John MacKay Shaw Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Florida State University
2018 Prizewinner: Parker Logan, “Ode to Dresser Drawers: A Love Song”
Florida State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Florida State University
201 Prizewinner: Tanya Grae, “Lethe”
Fordham University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Fordham University
2018 Prizewinner: Ellis Light, “Bird Boy”
Franklin & Marshall College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. C. Hunter Boll
2018 Prizewinner: Sarah Summerson, “It's easier to empty a body here”
George Mason University
Prize Name: The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Judith V. Lelchook
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
George Washington University
Prize Name: A. E. Claeyssens, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: George Washington University
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Georgetown University
Prize Name: Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Lisa Tibbetts, “An English Remix”
Georgia Perimeter College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The Chattahoochee Review
2018 Prizewinner: Jesus Hernandez, “Summer”
Georgia College & State University
Prize Name: Frankye Davis Mayes Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2018 Prizewinners: Becca Fallon, “Kitchen, 2009” (undergraduate) & Isabel Acevedo, “The Shipwreck” (graduate)
Gettysburg College
Prize Name: Marion Zulauf Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Sander Zulauf
2018 Prizewinner: Ivy-Rose Kramer, “Catawissa Creek Bridge”
Grinnell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Lorabel Richardson
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2018 Prizewinner: Christine M. Rains, “Enovid”
Hamilton College
Prize Name: Ralph and Doris Hansmann Poetry Prize
Founded: 1962
Donor: Hamilton College
2018 Prizewinner: Amy Heqing Zhang, “Small Poems for Persistent Nostalgia”
Harrisburg Area Community College
Prize Name: Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: Kierra Coutts, “Wine Glass”
Hartwick College
Prize Name: Anna Sonder Prize
Founder: 1979
Donor: Dr. Otto Sonder
2018 Prizewinner: Catherine Lomoe-Thompson, “Fruit Queen”
Harvard University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Harvard University
2018 Prizewinner: Martine Thomas, “The Sky Tonight”
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Zoe Kamalei Finn, “Kupuna in the Sleeping Grass”
Hofstra University
Prize Name: Nancy P. Schnader Award
Founded: 1974
Donor: Hofstra University
2018 Prizewinners: Kaitlyn Yonamine, “Monday Sunrise”
University of Houston
Prize Name: Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. Karl Kilian
2018 Prizewinner: Paige Quiñones, “Apophenia”
Hollins University
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1971
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2018 Prizewinner: Adriana Rewald, “Playing Chopin in Chisinau”
College of the Holy Cross
Prize Name: Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Founded: 1992
Donor: Dominick J. Lepore
2018 Prizewinner: Olivia Paulo, “Fully Submerged”
Hope College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Hope College
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Hunter College
Prize Name: Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Award
Founded: 1987
Donor: Miss Patricia MacManus, Mrs. Mariquita M. Mullan
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Idaho
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Karen Trujillo and Don Burnett
2018 Prizewinners: Stacy Boe Miller, “My Church Called Their Exorcism Program Healing House”
Illinois College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Deborah Klang Smith
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Illinois Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Arthur W. Hinners & Louise Hinners Sipfle Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Friends & Family of Louise Hinners Sipfle
2018 Prizewinner: Grace McGovern, “life in excess”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prize Name: Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Founded: 1966
Donor: Mrs. Robert D. Wood
2018 Prizewinner: Autumn Schraufnagel, “Girlhood is Formed on the Playground with an Invitation to Play Double Dutch”
Indiana University Bloomington
Prize Name: The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2018 Prizewinner: Wendy Lee Spacek, “Poem in the form of Anger”
Indiana State University
Prize Name: The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1996
Donor: Dr. Elaine L. Kleiner
2018 Prizewinner: Mustafa E. Mustafa, “Red and white, green and black”
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Tasia Trevino, “Drought Tolerance”
Johns Hopkins University
Prize Name: The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Mr. Thomas Newton Bolling
2018 Prizewinner: Teja Dupree, “Delta Venus”
Kenyon College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Kenyon College
2018 Prizewinner: Sylvie Robinson, “Halal Ohio”
Keystone College
Prize Name: Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2018 Prizewinner: Zoe Stephens, “The Symphony of Snow”
Lafayette College
Prize Name: Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2018 Prizewinner: Mario Sanchez, “Poem About a Flower”
Lewis & Clark College
Prize Name: Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Lewis & Clark College
2018 Prizewinner: Eva Gellman, “I Wish I Had One Hundred Eves”
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Prize Name: John & Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Founded: 1967
Donor: Ms. Jeanne Marie Scott
2018 Prizewinner: Michaela Elise Fox, “Paper Clip”
Loyola University Maryland
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Loyola University Maryland
2018 Prizewinner: Miranda Nolan, “In the Time it Takes”
Loyola University of Chicago
Prize Name: Dr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Lynchburg College
Prize name: Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister
2018 Prizewinner: Samah Rash, “Tea”
Macalester College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Macalester College
2018 Prizewinner: Charlie Pham, “one day i'll stop writing about my family”
Marietta College
Prize Name: The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laura Baudo Sillerman
2018 Prizewinner: Samantha Welch, “Nightly Routine”
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. Robert W. Newcomb
2018 Prizewinner: Ayesha Shibli, “Roadkill”
University of Mary Washington
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2018 Prizewinner: Kaitlin Lamb, “Dear Persephone”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prize Name: Joseph Langland Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2018 Prizewinners: Tom McCauley, “People Are Not Lights”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Hope Jordan, “At the Confluence”
University of Memphis
Prize Name: The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Founded: 2002
Donor: Deborah L. Talbot
2018 Prizewinner: Sarah Lucille Cozort, “A Spell for My Mother's Memory”
Messiah College
Prize Name: Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: Noah Perrin, “The Lot”
Miami-Dade College
Prize Name: Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Founded: 1973
Donor: Miami-Dade Community College
2018 Prizewinner: Vilma Alvarez, “White Heron”
Miami University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2018 Prizewinner: Sam Phillips, “pick about, lick about”
Miami University (graduate)
Prize Name: Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2018 Prizewinner: Dameion Wagner, “Momma's Boy”
University of Miami
Prize Name: Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
Founded: 1993
Donor: University of Miami
2018 Prizewinner: Maria Esquinca, “El Sapo”
Millersville University
Prize Name: Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: Misty Matesig, “Empty Garden”
University of Michigan (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2018 Prizewinner: Caroline Rothrock, “Seacucumbers”
University of Michigan (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2018 Prizewinner: Daniel Neff, “Flight”
University of Minnesota
Prize Name: James Wright Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: University of Minnesota
2018 Co-prizewinners: May Lee-Yang, “Endings”; Miriam Karraker, “Savory Dinner”; Kathryn Savage, “Breath”
University of Missouri at Columbia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: University of Missouri
2018 Prizewinner: Jay D. Smith, “Smoke Signals, Waco, 1993”
University of Montana
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: University of Montana
2018 Prizewinner: Maren Schiffer, “Can't Sonnet”
Mount Holyoke College
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1960
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2018 Prizewinner: K. Clark, “At 14 I start bleeding”
Muskingum College
Prize Name: Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Founded: 1993
Donor: Muskingum College
2018 Prizewinner: Matthew Early, “Perspective”
Naropa University
Prize Name: The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Friends of Margaret Randall
2018 Prizewinner: Camille E Craig, “Franz Kline's Opustena”
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Prize Name: Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gaffney
2018 Prizewinner: Katie Schmid, “Location”
University of Nebraska, MFA
Prize Name: Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. John C. Kenefick
2018 Prizewinner: Genevieve N. Williams, “Parking Lot Rocks”
New Jersey City University
Prize Name: The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: New Jersey City University
2018 Prizewinner: Hia Chakraborty, “Slow”
University of New Orleans
Prize Name: Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Ms. Andrea S. Gereighty
2018 Prizewinner: Betsy Housten, “Touch and Go”
New Mexico State University
Prize Name: Ruth Scott Poetry Award
Donor: Judith N. Scott
2018 Prizewinner: Jill Mceldowney, “Babygrave”
New York University
Prize Name: Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: The Arkin Family
2018 Prizewinner: Carson Lee, “Scenes from a Marriage”
University of North Dakota
Prize Name: The Thomas McGrath Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of North Dakota
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of North Texas
Prize Name: Paul R. Voertman Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: University of North Texas
2018 Prizewinner: Megan J. Arlett, “Turn of the Millennium”
University of Notre Dame
Prize Name: The Billy Maich Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Jessica Maich
2018 Prizewinner: Katie Campbell, “Can We Live Without Cosmos?”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prize Name: The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: Mrs. Ann W. Burrus
2018 Prizewinner: Shannon Grand
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Prize Name: Noel Callow Poetry Award
Founded: 1963
Donor: Anonymous
2018 Prizewinner: Forrest Rapier, “Appaloosa Rider Unchained”
North Carolina State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: North Carolina State University
2018 Prizewinner: Jane Craven, “Asphodel”
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
2018 Prizewinner: Sony Ton-Aime, “Coumbite”
Northwestern University
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2018 Prizewinner: Celia Hauw, “Merdeka”
Northwest Indian College
Prize Name: The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: James Harder
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Ohio State University
Prize Name: Arthur Rense Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Ms. Paige Rense
2018 Prizewinner: Emmalee Hagarman, “When I Visit Emily Dickinson's Grave”
Oklahoma State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1978
Donor: Oklahoma State University
2018 Prizewinner: Colin Pope, “Prayer to Enter Heaven Alive, Once”
Old Dominion University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2018 Prizewinners: Donya Price, “Hues of Blackness” (undergraduate) & Nishat Ahmed, “Snapshots of the Body as a Bomb” (graduate)
Oregon State University
Prize Name: Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Oregon State University
2018 Prizewinner: Charles Clark, “A Remark in Passing on Life Undelivered”
Pace University
Prize Name: David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: The Promise of Learnings Inc.
2018 Prizewinner: Mollie Murtagh, “Red”
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Prize Name: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: Emily Dempsey, “Saturn Devours His Son”
Pennsylvania State University
Prize Name: Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mrs. Pearl Steinberg
2018 Prizewinner: Danielle Fruehan, “In Yesterday”
University of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: William Carlos Williams Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: University of Pennsylvania
2018 Prizewinner: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, "For War and Water"
Piedmont College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Barbara Brown Taylor
2018 Prizewinner: Hadley Cottingham, “Lightly”
University of Pittsburgh
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Pittsburgh
2018 Prizewinner: Jennifer Nguyen, “Lunar New Year”
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Prize Name: The Colleen M. Brown Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: Kristen Hayes, “inosculation”
Portland State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: The Portland State University Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Autumn Sharp, “Up”
Pratt Institute
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1992
Donor: Pratt Institute
2018 Prizewinner: Bridget Hawkins, “Anemic”
Princeton University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Drs. William F. and Jerene Hewitt
2018 Prizewinner: Eunice Lee, “Castles in the Ampersand”
Purdue University
Prize Name: The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas H. Scholl
2018 Prizewinner: Megan Ray, “A Crown of Sonnets for Emily”
Randolph-Macon College
Prize Name: Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Redlands
Prize Name: Jean Burden Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Ms. Virginia Everett Smith
2018 Prizewinner: Emily Mains, “Misericordia”
Reed College
Prize Name: The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Reed College
2018 Prizewinner: Emma McNeel, “Preservation”
University of Richmond
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2018 Prizewinner: Alexander Balsamo, “Clandestine”
Rice University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Joyce Pounds Hardy
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Rochester
Prize Name: Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Rochester
2018 Prizewinner: Aaron Banks, “Exhume”
Rockford University
Prize Name: Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Rockford University
2018 Prizewinner: Bailey Murphy, “A Dangerous Delusion”
Rollins College
Prize Name: Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Family & Friends of Arden Goettling
2018 Co-prizewinners: Kallahan Stanley, “A Memorandum to the Gunloving and an Embrace to the Newest Members of the Survival Club” & Jihye Shin, “Magpie”
Rutgers University
Prize Name: Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2018 Prizewinner: Julia Terranova, “Pierce”
St. John’s University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas McInerney
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
St. Lawrence University
Prize Name: James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1975
Donor: St. Lawrence University
2018 Prizewinner: Peter Eckhardt, “The Wreck in the Grasse”
Saint Mary’s College of California
Prize Name: Russell & Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: David Zumwalt, “Poem for Love Written on a Perfect Friday on this Doomed Planet”
Sam Houston State University
Prize Name: The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Ms. Melissa Morphew
2018 Prizewinner: Haven Gomez, “In the Family”
San Francisco State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donors: Friends and Family of Piri Thomas
2018 Prizewinner: Brittany Nguyen, “Kinh Te Moi”
San Francisco State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1996
Donors: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Kimberly Reyes, “The Body”
University of San Francisco
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: University of San Francisco
2018 Prizewinner: Amie Scroggins, “One in the Morning”
San Jose State University
Prize Name: Virginia de Araujo Prize
Founded: 1981
Donor: Virginia de Araujo Trust
2018 Prizewinner: Kimy Martinez, “Big Brother“
Santa Clara University
Prize Name: Tamara Verga Poetry Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Victoria Verga Logan and Frank Verga, Jr.
2018 Prizewinner: Shelley Valdez, “Love and Other Fire Hazards”
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: No prize Awarded
Sarah Lawrence College (graduate)
Prize Name: The John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in Poetry
Donor: Joseph McCrindle and Charmaine Ferenczi
2018 Prizewinner: Corinne Santiago, “Ode to My Thighs”
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College
Prize Name: Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Mr. Peter Cooley
2018 Prizewinner: E.M. Billington, “Now: A Short Story in Verse”
Shippensburg University
Prize Name: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
2018 Prizewinner: Karen Mason-Breen, “all dogs”
Skidmore College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Skidmore College
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Smith College
Prize Name: Anne Bradstreet Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Smith College
2018 Prizewinner: Janelle Tan, “Prayer for Forgiveness Before Bed”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Rodney Jones
2018 Prizewinner: Jay Livingston, “fall/‘11”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: Carolyn Forman Moe
2018 Prizewinner: Teresa Dzieglewicz, “Baking Bread as Oceti Sakowin is Raided”
Spelman College
Prize Name: Edith A. Hambie Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Anonymous
2018 Prizewinner: Eva Dickerson, “August 20th 2017”
Spring Hill College
Prize Name: Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Nicole Stout, “Unlearning”
Stetson University
Prize Name: The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. Phillip Blumberg
2018 Prizewinners: Claretta Holsey, “When autumn leaves”
SUNY Albany
Prize Name: Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: The Liston Family
2018 Prizewinner: Victorio Reyes Asili, “from ‘The Tales of Happiness Santiago’”
SUNY Binghamton
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: SUNY Binghamton
2018 Prizewinners: Tamar Ashdot, “The Way Water Deceives Me” (undergraduate) & Shane Carreon, “Sunday” (graduate)
SUNY Buffalo
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: SUNY Buffalo
2018 Prizewinner: Ariana Nash, “Self-Portraits poses as I Love lower, lunatic Him”
SUNY Buffalo
Prize Name: Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Mr. Dan Liberthson
2018 Prizewinner: Kathleen Naughton, “warming ending what it may you persist”
SUNY Farmingdale
Prize Name: Raynor Wallace Poetry Award
Founded: 1988
Donor: SUNY Farmingdale
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Oswego
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. John W. Mincher, Jr.
2018 Prizewinner: Joseph Sigurdson, “Alcohol”
Sweet Briar College
Prize Name: The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Temple University
Prize Name: Albert J. Caplan Prize
Founded: 1985
Donor: Mr. Albert J. Caplan
2018 Prizewinner: Layla Rivera, “Venus”
University of Texas at Austin
Prize Name: Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Andrew Julius Gutow Memorial Fund
2018 Prizewinners: John Bosworth, “A Boy Can Wear A Dress” & Chessy Normile, “Ever”
Trinity College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Trinity College
2018 Prizewinner: Sarah Beckmann, “Duende in Rowing”
Tufts University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Tufts University
2018 Prizewinner: Allie Merola, “Relentless and unmitigated”
Tulane University
Prize Name: Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mr. Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
2018 Prizewinner: David Graber, “Angels of forgetfulness”
United States Naval Academy
Prize Name: Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Mrs. A. Stuart Pitt
2018 Prizewinner: Chandler Vercher, “A Stone Winter”
University of Utah
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: University of Utah
2018 Prizewinner: Thomas Larmore, “Something Like Symphily”
Valdosta State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Mr. Edward Davin Vickers
2018 Prizewinner: Tyler Bentley, “In Love, As In, Alone”
Valparaiso University
Prize Name: Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2018 Prizewinner: Cameron Beisel, “Dark Movement”
Vanderbilt University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Vanderbilt University
2018 Prizewinner: Joshua Moore, “Learning to Fight”
Vassar College
Prize Name: Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Mr. Albert H. Gordon
2018 Prizewinner: Michaela Coplen, “Solatium”
University of Virginia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Henry Hoyns Bequest, Charles Wright
2018 Prizewinner: Michaela Cowgill, “Postcard to a Woman from a Country of Ardent Light”
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prize Name: Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Nan Byrne
2018 Prizewinner: Jae Clark, “Open Letter to My Brother”
Virginia Tech
Prize name: Virginia Tech/ Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2018 Prizewinner: Kelsey Schurer, “After the Farm”
Washington College
Prize Name: The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Dr. & Mrs. Jude Pfister
2018 Prizewinner: Mallory Smith, “Proper Greetings”
Washington & Lee University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Anonymous
2018 Prizewinner: Henry Luzzatto, “Stonewall Invocation”
Washington University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Washington University
2018 Prizewinners: Rebecca Pinwei Tseng, “Girl on Display” (undergraduate) & Colin Criss, “Self-Portrait as Ophelia” (graduate)
University of Washington
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Ainsley Kelly, “Mission Valley”
Wayne State University
Prize Name: John Clare Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wellesley College
Prize Name: Nevin Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The Family of Betty Nevin Marshall & Robert Nevin
2018 Prizewinner: Matilda Berke, “Portrait of Pam Anderson as Drowning Fish”
Wells College
Prize Name: Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2018 Prizewinner: Abigail Rundle, “live más”
Wesleyan College
Prize Name: George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz
2018 Prizewinner: Tyler Walker, “Alis Propriis Volat (She Flies with Her Own Wings)”
Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Kate Bernheimer
2018 Prizewinners: Liv Ryan, “Grind Your Body Into a Fist”
Westminster College
Prize Name: Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: Westminster College
2018 Prizewinner: Mystery Post, “Ode to Howling”
College of William & Mary
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Williams College
Prize Name: Bullock Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Academy of American Poets
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wilson College
Prize Name: The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: John Uilkema, “The Stone”
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Prize Name: George B. Hill Poetry Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Kevin P. Bjerregaard
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of Wooster
Prize Name: Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Founded: 1983
Donor: Ms. Susan Donnell
2018 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Yale University
Prize Name: Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2018 Prizewinner: Israel Kassim, “Africa Talks to You”
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Yonsei University
2018 Prizewinner: Soeun Seo, “I Never Really Knew You: An Elegy”
York College of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: Mary Jane’s Diamond Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2018 Prizewinner: Emily Goff, “Preaging”