Agnes Scott College
Prize Name: Janef Preston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Agnes Scott College
2019 Prizewinner: Srinidhi Panchapakesan, “Natural Disaster”
University of Alabama
Prize Name: Hill-Kohn Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: University of Alabama
2019 Prizewinner: Jiaming Tang, “Come Closer”
Amherst College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: Trustees of Amherst College
2019 Prizewinner: Heather Brennan, “Crossings”
Aquinas College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mrs. Linda Nemec Foster
2019 Prizewinner: Lukas Isenga, “Get Up, Or, So Help Me I Will Sharpen Optimism into A Spear: in Four Parts”
Arizona State University
Prize Name: Katharine C. Turner Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Katharine C. Turner
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arizona
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Arizona
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arkansas
Prize Name: C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Geffrey Davis
2019 Prizewinner: E. Thomas Jones, “Revision with Blueberries”
Auburn University
Prize Name: Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2019 Prizewinner: Laura Mulqueen, “The Fear Structure”
Augsburg University
Prize Name: John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mrs. Jeanette Mitchell
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Bard College
Prize Name: The Flow Chart Foundation/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: David Kermani, The Flow Chart Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Gilad Jaffe, "Poem to Keep You Company," and Isabella Martinez, "Kindling"
Baylor University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Beall Poetry Festival
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Beloit College
Prize Name: Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Ms. Marion Stocking
2019 Prizewinner: Therese Elizabeth Lydon, “Washburn A Mill Explosion, Minneapolis, 1878”
Bennington College
Prize Name: The Green Prize for Poetry
Founded: 2006
Donor: Kelly Green & Forrest MacGregor
2019 Prizewinner: Matthew Tuckner, “Ornithology”
Bergen Community College
Prize Name: The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Steven W. Chung
2019 Prizewinner: Ariana Landeira, “A Palm Reading”
Boston University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Boston University Creative Writing Program
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Bowdoin College
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mr. Jack Miller
2019 Prizewinner: Ella Schmidt, “Tornado”
Bradley University
Prize Name: Sipple Poetry Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Bradley University
2019 Prizewinner: Veronica Blascoe, “Blueprints”
Brandeis University
Prize Name: The Ramon Feliciano Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Marian McDonald
2019 Prizewinner: Sarah Terrazano, “Fire in the Woods”
Brigham Young University
Prize Name: Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Ethel Lowry Handley
2019 Prizewinner: Elizabeth Kujanpää, “Fingers in a Bush” (undergraduate) and Drew Rupard, “Soliloquy on a Mirror” (graduate)
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Prize Name: Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Burton Goldberg
2019 Prizewinner: Emily Costantino, “Winter Sonnet”
Brown University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
2019 Prizewinner: Christine Antoine, “ends”
Bryn Mawr College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Founded: 1957
Donor: Mrs. Peter McCormick
2019 Prizewinner: Alyssa Mazzoli, "CONCENTRATE AND ASK AGAIN"
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: The Friends of Larry Levis
2019 Prizewinner: Shelby King, “Clinton Avenue”
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Prize Name: Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: The Friends of Ernesto Trejo
2019 Prizewinner: Angel Gonzales, “An Ode to Hands”
California State University, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: California State University, Los Angeles
2019 Prizewinner: Kirsten Ogden, “My Atoms Come from those Stars”
California State University, Northridge
Prize Name: George Dillon Memorial Award
Founded: 1968
Donor: California State University, Northridge
2019 Prizewinner: Angel Baker, “Vista, California”
University of California, Berkeley
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Lise Gaston, “talus”
University of California, Davis
Prize Name: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Prof. Celeste Turner Wright
2019 Prizewinner: Anthony DiCarlo, “For Fiver and Cassandra”
University of California, Irvine
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: Mr. Walter J. Thomson
2019 Prizewinner: Lauren Swift, “The Hunt”
University of California, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Ms. Joan LaBombard
2019 Prizewinner: Rhiannon McGavin, “Jewish Geography as According to Auntie L”
California Polytechnic State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: California Polytechnic State University
2019 Prizewinner: Katherine Flitsch, “Howl for the Piedly Pious”
Calvin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Calvin College
2019 Prizewinner: Daniel Hickey, “Apostatic Floor Mopper”
Carnegie Mellon University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1977
Donor: Carnegie Mellon University
2019 Prizewinner: Julie Heming, "Derealization"
Central Michigan University
Prize Name: Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Phillip Sterling
2019 Prizewinner: Isabella Barricklow, “Dictionary of Wanting”
Central Pennsylvania College
Prize Name: Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Centre College
Prize Name: Paul Cantrell Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Phillip Sterling
2019 Prizewinner: Sophie Grindon, “Smooth”
Chatham University
Prize Name: The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laurie and Henry Reich
2019 Prizewinner: Janette Schafer, “What we want to remember about this river”
University of Cincinnati (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Charli Littleton, “Washed Out”
University of Cincinnati (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Madeleine Wattenberg, “James River, Virginia”
The City College of San Francisco
Prize Name: The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Mrs. Felicia Farr Lemmon
2019 Prizewinner: Wesley Wang, “the water tower”
Cleveland State University
Prize Name: Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Cleveland State University
2019 Prizewinner: James Yang, “Aibohphobia”
Colorado State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Colorado State University Faculty & Administration
2019 Prizewinner: Susannah Lodge-Rigal, “Habituation”
Columbia College Chicago
Prize Name: Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Nick Weaver, “Gun Oil”
Columbia University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Anonymous
2019 Prizewinner: Melissa Ho, “Colonial”
Columbia University (graduate)
Prize Name: Bennett Poetry Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: The New York Times Advertising Department
2019 Prizewinner: Kelley Hess, “I Am Desperate to Waste Things”
Connecticut College
Prize Name: Charles B. Palmer Poetry Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: Connecticut College
2019 Prizewinner: Deverly Perez, “mama says we can't take flowers to papi's grave this year”
Cooper Union
Prize Name: Elizabeth Kray Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Cooper Union
2019 Prizewinners: No prize awarded
Cornell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Clyde and Jewell Bothwell Tull
Founded: 1990
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2019 Prizewinner: Marin Dettweiler, “Unthoughtful Town”
Cornell University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Litowitz Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Creighton University
Prize Name: Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Caleb Jones, “To the Lord God, the Good Savior, the Giver of Life”
Dartmouth College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Dartmouth College
2019 Prizewinner: Julia O'Sullivan, “October from the Pacific”
University of Delaware
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Nimalah Baaith-Ducharme, “Untitled Haiku 1-6”
University of Denver
Prize Name: Edward M. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Dickinson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Dickinson College
2019 Prizewinner: Kimberly Phillips, “New Year's Guts”
Drew University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Susan Vartanian Barba
2019 Prizewinner: Perry Asibey-Bonsu, “Stitches”
Duke University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Biddle Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Valerie Muensterman, “Prophet Syndrome”
Elizabethtown College
Prize Name: The Raymond and Mausolene Stouffer Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Emerson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Emerson College
2019 Prizewinner: Myles Taylor, “poem envisioning the opposite of violence” (undergraduate) and Brandon Melendez, “Field Notes on Desire” (graduate)
Emory University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The Friends of Creative Writing
2019 Prizewinner: Annie Li, “No Light”
Florida International University
Prize Name: Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. John Bond
2019 Prizewinner: Samantha Leon, “Elegy for My Childhood Home Ending in the Sound of a Lawnmower”
Florida State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: John MacKay Shaw Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Florida State University
2019 Prizewinner: Raven Halle, “My Brain is a Book of Celebrity Horoscopes and Snapple Cap Facts”
Florida State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Florida State University
201 Prizewinner: Dustin Pearson, “To the Sons”
Fordham University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Fordham University
2019 Prizewinner: Julia Gagliardi, “Celestial Bodies”
Franklin & Marshall College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. C. Hunter Boll
2019 Prizewinner: Jonathan Teklit, “Black Mythology”
George Mason University
Prize Name: The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Judith V. Lelchook
2019 Prizewinner: Lloyd Wallace, “2”
George Washington University
Prize Name: A. E. Claeyssens, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: George Washington University
2019 Prizewinner: Dyson Waite-Himmelwright, "Taut"
Georgetown University
Prize Name: Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Daniel Breen, “Still life on fragment (60-85 A.D.)”
Georgia College
Prize Name: Frankye Davis Mayes Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2019 Prizewinners: Tanner Howard, “The Wind Gatherer” (undergraduate), and Danielle Johnson, “Bigger Things” (graduate)
Georgia State University
Prize Name: The Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2018
Donor: Dr. Katherine Kincer
Winner: Elizabeth Hazzard, “To Black & Brown Children”
Gettysburg College
Prize Name: Marion Zulauf Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Sander Zulauf
2019 Prizewinner: Ellianie Vega, ”Around North Street“
Grinnell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Lorabel Richardson
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2019 Prizewinner: Steven Duong, “Sonnet Crown Whose Four Jewels May Not be Dispensed Without the Written Prescription of a Medical Practitioner”
Hamilton College
Prize Name: Ralph and Doris Hansmann Poetry Prize
Founded: 1962
Donor: Hamilton College
2019 Prizewinner: Ruth Coolidge, “Dane Dehaan Talks to a Bear”
Harrisburg Area Community College
Prize Name: Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Hartwick College
Prize Name: Anna Sonder Prize
Founder: 1979
Donor: Dr. Otto Sonder
2019 Prizewinner: Taylor P. Miller, “baptizing saturn”
Harvard University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Harvard University
2019 Prizewinner: Sarah Toomey, “My Question is the Following”
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Amalia Bueno, “Pasdan River”
Hofstra University
Prize Name: Nancy P. Schnader Award
Founded: 1974
Donor: Hofstra University
2019 Prizewinner: Sumayyah Uddin, “Poison”
University of Houston
Prize Name: Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. Karl Kilian
2019 Prizewinner: Emelie Griffin, “In Summer”
Hollins University
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1971
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2019 Prizewinner: Adriana Rewald, “Shocked Quartz”
College of the Holy Cross
Prize Name: Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Founded: 1992
Donor: Dominick J. Lepore
2019 Prizewinner: Aubrey Ashmun, “Ode to Katama Beach”
Hope College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Hope College
2019 Prizewinner: Kellyanne Fitzgerald, “Road Trip”
Hunter College
Prize Name: Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Award
Founded: 1987
Donor: Miss Patricia MacManus, Mrs. Mariquita M. Mullan
2019 Prizewinner: S. Maxwell Quinn, “poem.” (undergraduate) and Jamie Smith (graduate)
University of Idaho
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Karen Trujillo and Don Burnett
2019 Prizewinner: Caitlyn Curran, “Sister in Recovery”
Illinois College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Deborah Klang Smith
2019 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
2019 Prizewinner: Kathryn Halford, “Dendochronology”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prize Name: Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Founded: 1966
Donor: Mrs. Robert D. Wood
2019 Prizewinner: Sarah Patrick, “Uncertain Elegy”
Indiana University Bloomington
Prize Name: The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2019 Prizewinner: Austin Araujo, “Watching Him Cross”
Indiana State University
Prize Name: The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1996
Donor: Dr. Elaine L. Kleiner
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Johns Hopkins University
Prize Name: The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Mr. Thomas Newton Bolling
2019 Prizewinner: Laura Schelong, “Safe as Houses”
Kenyon College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Kenyon College
2019 Prizewinner: Paola Liendo, “Ode to Jigglypuff”
Keystone College
Prize Name: Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2019 Prizewinner: Kerri Homerick, “The Never-ending Spiral”
Lafayette College
Prize Name: Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2019 Prizewinner: Emily Lugos, “Bruises. Tongues, and a Funeral”
Lewis & Clark College
Prize Name: Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Lewis & Clark College
2019 Prizewinner: Xiao Yumi, “Ghost-Flower-Fish”
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Prize Name: John & Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Founded: 1967
Donor: Ms. Jeanne Marie Scott
2019 Prizewinner: Tasia Hernandez, “2nd Best”
Loyola University Maryland
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Loyola University Maryland
2019 Prizewinner: Alexis McIlvain, “May I Have a Moment of Your Time?”
Loyola University of Chicago
Prize Name: Dr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Lynchburg
Prize name: Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister
2019 Prizewinner: Hiatt O'Connor, “Murmurations”
Macalester College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Macalester College
2019 Prizewinner: Miriam Moore-Keish, “My Oma Says it is Sacrilege to Drink Wine Cold”
Marietta College
Prize Name: The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laura Baudo Sillerman
2019 Prizewinner: Rachel Ewing, “Broken Dishes”
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. Robert W. Newcomb
2019 Prizewinner: Anna Newman, “Razing”
University of Mary Washington
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prize Name: Joseph Langland Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2019 Prizewinners: Rebecca Valley, “Lake Echo”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Eliza Bartlett Anise, “Spring”
University of Memphis
Prize Name: The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Founded: 2002
Donor: Deborah L. Talbot
2019 Prizewinner: Hannah Feustle, “Do I Believe In God?”
Messiah College
Prize Name: Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: Olivia Bardo, “Sweet Sixteen”
Miami-Dade College
Prize Name: Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Founded: 1973
Donor: Miami-Dade Community College
2019 Prizewinner: Gabriela Azeem-Angel, “Children of Bolivar”
Miami University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2019 Prizewinner: Talia Mesnick, “The Hollow Women: After TS Eliot and Terrance Hayes”
Miami University (graduate)
Prize Name: Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2019 Prizewinner: Jessica Smith, “Daybooks 3 May 2013”
University of Miami
Prize Name: Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
Founded: 1993
Donor: University of Miami
2019 Prizewinner: Clayre Benzadon, “Linguistic Rewilding”
Millersville University
Prize Name: Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: Nathaniel Warren, “Hasten”
University of Michigan (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2019 Prizewinner: Nadia Mota, “ghazal for fear”
University of Michigan (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2019 Prizewinner: Jennifer Huang, “Equinox, 2018”
University of Minnesota
Prize Name: James Wright Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: University of Minnesota
2019 Co-prizewinners: Chelli Riddiough, “the drunk mother”
University of Missouri at Columbia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: University of Missouri
2019 Prizewinner: Rebecca Pelky, “Little Fly”
University of Montana
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: University of Montana
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Mount Holyoke College
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1960
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2019 Prizewinner: b holton, “Brother”
Muskingum College
Prize Name: Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Founded: 1993
Donor: Muskingum College
2019 Prizewinner: Jenna Durant, “Ode to my Car Radio”
Naropa University
Prize Name: The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Friends of Margaret Randall
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Prize Name: Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gaffney
2019 Prizewinner: Cameron Steele, “Bubos”
University of Nebraska, MFA
Prize Name: Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. John C. Kenefick
2019 Prizewinner: Michelle Quick, “How Great Thou Art”
New Jersey City University
Prize Name: The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: New Jersey City University
2019 Prizewinner: Scion Wellington, “Into the Jesusverse”
University of New Orleans
Prize Name: Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Ms. Andrea S. Gereighty
2019 Prizewinner: Henry Goldkamp, “quintuple bullshit sonnet for mawmaws dialysis of her kidney”
New Mexico State University
Prize Name: Ruth Scott Poetry Award
Donor: Judith N. Scott
2019 Prizewinner: Caroline Chavatel, “Here We Don't Die, We Shop”
New York University
Prize Name: Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: The Arkin Family
2019 Prizewinner: Vinnie Zhang, “The Fish in Fuzhou”
University of North Dakota
Prize Name: The Thomas McGrath Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of North Dakota
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of North Texas
Prize Name: Paul R. Voertman Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: University of North Texas
2019 Prizewinner: Megan J. Arlett, “Jaw”
University of Notre Dame
Prize Name: The Billy Maich Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Jessica Maich
2019 Prizewinner: Maxime Berclaz, “Locus-Egg-Locus-Imago-Locus-Egg-Locus”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prize Name: The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: Mrs. Ann W. Burrus
2019 Prizewinner: Aisling Henihan, “I Saw a Prickly Pear Cactus Today”
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Prize Name: Noel Callow Poetry Award
Founded: 1963
Donor: Anonymous
2019 Prizewinner: Wesley Sexton, “On Seeing a Bee Drink His Nectar”
North Carolina State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: North Carolina State University
2019 Prizewinner: Josh Tvrdy, “Dad Said He Knew How to Weld”
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
2019 Prizewinner: Noor Hindi, “Zenana”
Northwestern University
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2019 Prizewinner: Hannah Hall, “Celestial Confessions”
Northwest Indian College
Prize Name: The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: James Harder
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Ohio State University
Prize Name: Arthur Rense Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Ms. Paige Rense
2019 Prizewinner: Mags Colvett, “A Ghost Story”
Oklahoma State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1978
Donor: Oklahoma State University
2019 Prizewinner: Remigius Recchia, “Head Space”
Old Dominion University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2019 Prizewinners: Briel Felton, “All my mother's rambling” (undergraduate) and Matthew Olive, “Allowed to Watch, I Don’t” (graduate co-winner) and Tracy Rice Weber, ”Simple Comfort“ (graduate co-winner)
Oregon State University
Prize Name: Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Oregon State University
2019 Prizewinner: Grace Burks, “I Take Myself on Dates”
Pace University
Prize Name: David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: The Promise of Learnings Inc.
2019 Prizewinner: Ingrid Lorenzi, “Bayside at 3 A.M.”
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Prize Name: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: Emma Bankert, “Father Figure”
Pennsylvania State University
Prize Name: Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mrs. Pearl Steinberg
2019 Prizewinner: Andrea Brown, “I put on Ella Fitzgerald and Danced Alone in My Living Room to Her Rendition of Summertime”
University of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: William Carlos Williams Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: University of Pennsylvania
2019 Prizewinner: Ethan Plaue, “Fog Line”
Perimeter College (note: formerly listed as "Georgia Perimeter College")
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The Chattahoochee Review
2019 Winner: Nethra Rammohan, “Falling”
Piedmont College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Barbara Brown Taylor
2019 Prizewinner: Emily Pierce, “Collage”
University of Pittsburgh
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Pittsburgh
2019 Prizewinner: Leyla Çolpan, “Kuşköy in Virginia” (undergraduate) and Joshua Palmer, “Self-Portrait in Tongues” (graduate)
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Prize Name: The Colleen M. Brown Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: Hannah Brown, “Elastic Yellow”
Portland State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: The Portland State University Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Morgaine Baumann, “An Education”
Pratt Institute
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1992
Donor: Pratt Institute
2019 Prizewinner: Paulina Meyer, “Letters in Half-Shadow”
Princeton University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Drs. William F. and Jerene Hewitt
2019 Prizewinner: Luke Soucy, “[12/13/2017]”
Purdue University
Prize Name: The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas H. Scholl
2019 Prizewinner: Noah Baldino, “Passing”
Randolph College
Prize Name: Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
2019 Prizewinner: Jena Davis, “Headspace” (undergraduate) and Mateo Lara, “Glint” (graduate)
University of Redlands
Prize Name: Jean Burden Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Ms. Virginia Everett Smith
2019 Prizewinner: Noa Josef Sperber, “Triptych”
Reed College
Prize Name: The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Reed College
2019 Prizewinner: Sofia Valencia, “the morning hour”
University of Richmond
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2019 Prizewinner: Nicolas DelValle, “In the Night”
Rice University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Joyce Pounds Hardy
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Rochester
Prize Name: Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Rochester
2019 Prizewinner: Tianna Gonzalez, “Honey and Milk”
Rockford University
Prize Name: Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Rockford University
2019 Prizewinner: Sintheyah Siyarath, “Autumn's Butterflies”
Rollins College
Prize Name: Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Family & Friends of Arden Goettling
2019 Co-prizewinners: Hannah Butcher, “Moral Compass”
Rutgers University
Prize Name: Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2019 Prizewinner: Flannery Rollins, “How to Heal a Bruise; How to Keep Cool; How to Read a Room; How to Explain Yourself; How to Dream Better;”
St. John’s University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas McInerney
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
St. Lawrence University
Prize Name: James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1975
Donor: St. Lawrence University
2019 Prizewinner: Olivia Reynolds, “I Dreamed I was in my Mother's Memory”
Saint Mary’s College of California
Prize Name: Russell & Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sam Houston State University
Prize Name: The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Ms. Melissa Morphew
2019 Prizewinner: Hunter Burke, “On Bondage and Homoerotic Thrills”
San Francisco State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donors: Friends and Family of Piri Thomas
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
San Francisco State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1996
Donors: The New Hope Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of San Francisco
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: University of San Francisco
2019 Prizewinner: Sofia Skavdahl, “Idlib, Syria | San Francisco, CA”
San Jose State University
Prize Name: Virginia de Araujo Prize
Founded: 1981
Donor: Virginia de Araujo Trust
2019 Prizewinner: Sophia Apodoca, “1992”
Santa Clara University
Prize Name: Tamara Verga Poetry Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Victoria Verga Logan and Frank Verga, Jr.
2019 Prizewinner: Erika Rasmussen, “Mylėti Means To Love (Barely Known)”
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2019 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
2019 Prizewinner: Marjorie Tesser, “April”
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College
Prize Name: Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Mr. Peter Cooley
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Shippensburg University
Prize Name: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
2019 Prizewinner: Courtney Caro, “June”
Skidmore College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Skidmore College
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Smith College
Prize Name: Anne Bradstreet Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Smith College
2019 Prizewinner: Julia Falkner, “Piles”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Rodney Jones
2019 Prizewinner: Jay Livingston, “diction/\footing”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: Carolyn Forman Moe
2019 Prizewinner: Mary Ardery, “Fear of Drowning”
Spelman College
Prize Name: Edith A. Hambie Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Anonymous
2019 Prizewinner: Ariana Benson, “Pineapple Market”
Spring Hill College
Prize Name: Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Kameron Powell, “The Unsent Letter”
Stetson University
Prize Name: The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. Phillip Blumberg
2019 Prizewinners: Claretta Holsey, “Dis Placeholder”
SUNY Albany
Prize Name: Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: The Liston Family
2019 Prizewinner: Yolande Schutter, “She Lives”
SUNY Binghamton
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: SUNY Binghamton
2019 Prizewinners: Anna Berbary, “a poem to a friend who didn't drop the ribbon” (undergraduate) and Eniko Vaghy, “I Find a Child” (graduate)
SUNY Buffalo - Graduate
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: SUNY Buffalo
2019 Prizewinner: Travis Sharp, “Monoculture”
SUNY Buffalo - Undergraduate
Prize Name: Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Mr. Dan Liberthson
2019 Prizewinner: Katie Naughton, “debt ritual: grain”
SUNY Farmingdale
Prize Name: Raynor Wallace Poetry Award
Founded: 1988
Donor: SUNY Farmingdale
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Oswego
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. John W. Mincher, Jr.
2019 Prizewinner: Sally Familia, “The Trouble with Reminiscing”
Sweet Briar College
Prize Name: The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Temple University
Prize Name: Albert J. Caplan Prize
Founded: 1985
Donor: Mr. Albert J. Caplan
2019 Prizewinner: Dynas Johnson, “space girl: prologue”
University of Texas at Austin
Prize Name: Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Andrew Julius Gutow Memorial Fund
2019 Prizewinners: Luisana Cortez, “The Cracking Bleat of the Ram” (undergraduate) and Sarah Matthes, “613 Mitzvot” (graduate)
Trinity College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Trinity College
2019 Prizewinner: Kirstin Fierro, “Gardener”
Tufts University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Tufts University
2019 Prizewinner: Sarah Walsh, “After Mother Road Died”
Tulane University
Prize Name: Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mr. Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
2019 Prizewinner: Simran Jain, “To Break Open Wings”
United States Naval Academy
Prize Name: Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Mrs. A. Stuart Pitt
2019 Prizewinner: Duncan Farrant, “Military Tuck”
University of Utah
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: University of Utah
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Valdosta State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Mr. Edward Davin Vickers
2019 Prizewinner: Tyler Bentley, “Fear of Eden's Fruit”
Valparaiso University
Prize Name: Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2019 Prizewinner: Faith Smith, “Someday I'll Love Faith Smith”
Vanderbilt University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Vanderbilt University
2019 Prizewinner: Carlina Duan, “DO YOU HAVE A GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION?”
Vassar College
Prize Name: Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Mr. Albert H. Gordon
2019 Prizewinner: Bella Dalton-Fenkl, “Two Sijo: 'Specularite' and 'Slate'”
University of Virginia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Henry Hoyns Bequest, Charles Wright
2019 Prizewinner: Aimee Seu, “Nikki Lyn”
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prize Name: Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Nan Byrne
2019 Prizewinner: Ty Phelps, “At the Ice Rink”
Virginia Tech
Prize name: Virginia Tech/ Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2019 Prizewinner: Makensi Ceriani, “Our Body Restless”
Washington College
Prize Name: The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Dr. & Mrs. Jude Pfister
2019 Prizewinner: Justin Nash, “THAT THING THAT THING”
Washington & Lee University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Anonymous
2019 Prizewinner: Rossella Gabriele, “Kindling”
Washington University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Washington University
2019 Prizewinners: Adam Messer, “why i don't write love poems” (undergraduate) and Emma Wilson, “Kill me, Daddy” (graduate)
University of Washington
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Caleb Braun, “Prayer for the Long-Lost Invocation”
Wayne State University
Prize Name: John Clare Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wellesley College
Prize Name: Nevin Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The Family of Betty Nevin Marshall & Robert Nevin
2019 Prizewinner: Haley Cheek, “Swan”
Wells College
Prize Name: Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2019 Prizewinner: Savannah Olsen, “faraway place”
Wesleyan College
Prize Name: George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz
2019 Prizewinner: Anneliese Balfour, “Late Night Snack”
Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Kate Bernheimer
2019 Prizewinners: Dylan Moore, “Ireland from the M50”
Westminster College
Prize Name: Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: Westminster College
2019 Prizewinner: Kate Wilson, “black dog black dog black dog”
College of William & Mary
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
2019 Prizewinner: Felix Valentino Salmoran, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent, 1987”
Williams College
Prize Name: Bullock Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Academy of American Poets
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wilson College
Prize Name: The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: Molly Lemke, “Crow's Funeral”
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Prize Name: George B. Hill Poetry Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Kevin P. Bjerregaard
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of Wooster
Prize Name: Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Founded: 1983
Donor: Ms. Susan Donnell
2019 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Yale University
Prize Name: Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2019 Prizewinner: Rachel Kaufman, “New Mexico Lightning”
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Yonsei University
2019 Prizewinner: Jin Yoo, “A Landscape” (undergraduate) and B. J. Park, “Memory” (graduate)
York College of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: Mary Jane’s Diamond Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2019 Prizewinner: Samantha Sabatini, “Crying”