The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the United States.
Crab Orchard may refer to:
The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program.
The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition.
Brigit Pegeen Kelly was an American poet and teacher. Born in Palo Alto, California, Kelly grew up in southern Indiana and lived much of her adult life in central Illinois. An intensely private woman, little is known about her life.
Cyrus Cassells is an American poet and professor.
Denise Duhamel is an American poet.
Jake Adam York was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: Murder Ballads, which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings, which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown, an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book, Abide, was released posthumously, in 2014. That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate.
Wally Swist is an American poet and writer. He is best known for his poems about nature and spirituality.
Elton Glaser is an American poet. He has published collections of poetry and been published in literary magazines.
Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.
Victoria Chang is an American poet and children's writer. Her fifth book of poems, OBIT, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her prior book of poems, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. Her third book of poetry, The Boss was published by McSweeney's as part of the McSweeney's Poetry Series in July 2013—it won a PEN Center USA literary award and a California Book Award. Her second poetry collection is Salvinia Molesta. Her first book, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.
Todd Hearon is an American poet. His two books are STRANGE LAND and NO OTHER GODS. He is the winner of several awards and has published his work in multiple magazines. He currently teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy. He lives with his wife, Maggie Dietz, and their two kids in New Hampshire.
Lee Ann Roripaugh is an American poet and was the South Dakota poet laureate from 2015 to 2019. Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of five volumes of poetry: tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, Dandarians, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, Year of the Snake, and Beyond Heart Mountain. She was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series.
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett is the author of two books of poetry: Quiver and Roam. She is also the author of a book of scholarly criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America, which was the first scholarly monograph on the poetry slam and which focuses on African American performance in slam and spoken word poetry.
Orlando Ricardo Menes is a Cuban-American poet, short story writer, translator, editor, and professor.
Tarfia Faizullah is a Bengali American poet. She won a 2009 Cohen Award. Her book, Seam won the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards.
Tyler Mills is an American poet, essayist, editor, and scholar. She is an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University and the author of Tongue Lyre, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She is also an editor and teacher and lives in Santa Fe.
T. J. Jarrett is an American writer and software developer in Nashville, Tennessee.