List of winners of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

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The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is administered by the Academy of American Poets selected by the New Hope Foundation in 1994. Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support the arts and the cause of world peace"; [6] Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971. [7] Receipt of the prize has been among the distinctions noted by the Library of Congress when the Poet Laureate of the United States is named. [8] [9] [10] [11]

The Prize was initially administered by the Saturday Review magazine. [12] Following the folding of Saturday Review, the Prize was administered by The Nation magazine. [13] In 1995, administration of the Prize became the responsibility of the Academy; the Prize has a permanent endowment. The Prize is still sponsored by The Nation, which usually publishes an article about the poetry of each year's finalists and winner. The cash value of the prize is currently $25,000.

Winners

YearPoetBookJudges
1975 Cid Corman O/I Hayden Carruth
1976 Denise Levertov The Freeing of the DustHayden Carruth
1977 Philip Levine The Names of the Lost William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, Charles Wright
1978 Allen Tate Collected Poems, 1919-1976 Alastair Reid, John Hollander, May Swenson
1979 Hayden Carruth Brothers, I Loved You AllAlastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Mark Strand
1980 Stanley Kunitz The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978William Jay Smith, Cynthia Macdonald, Quincy Troupe
1981 Sterling A. Brown The Collected Poems of Sterling A. BrownPhilip Levine, Michael S. Harper, Jean Valentine
1982 John Logan The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980William Jay Smith, Carolyn Kizer, Paul Zweig
1983 George Starbuck The Argot Merchant Disaster Dana Gioia, May Swenson, Sydney Lea
1984 Josephine Miles Collected Poems, 1930-83 Alfred Corn, Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Justice
1985 John Ashbery A Wave Dave Smith, Rika Lesser, John Hollander
1986 Howard Moss New Selected Poems J. D. McClatchy, Richard Howard, Rachel Hadas
1987 Donald Hall The Happy ManRobert Pinsky, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Douglas Crase
1988 Josephine Jacobsen The Sisters: New & Selected PoemsWilliam Jay Smith, Robert Phillips, Katha Pollitt
1989 Thomas McGrath Selected Poems, 1938-1988 Amy Clampitt, Richard Kenney, Robert Shaw
1990 Michael Ryan God HungerWilliam Pritchard, Sydney Lea, Liz Rosenberg
1991 John Haines New Poems, 1980-88 Donald Hall, Josephine Jacobsen, Molly Peacock
1992 Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World Mona Van Duyn, Edward Hirsch, Thomas Lux
1993 Thom Gunn The Man with Night SweatsRobert Pinsky, Carol Muske, James Tate
1994 W. S. Merwin Travels Gerald Stern, Deborah Digges, Stephen Dunn
1995 Marilyn Hacker [14] Winter NumbersMaxine Kumin, Cornelius Eady, Alice Fulton
1996 Charles Wright ChickamaugaPhilip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Laurie Sheck
1997 Robert Pinsky The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 Mark Doty, Susan Mitchell, Mary Oliver
1998 Mark Jarman Questions for Ecclesiastes Charles Simic, Chase Twichell, Charles Wright
1999 Wanda Coleman Bathwater WineRafael Campo, Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker
2000 David Ferry Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations W. S. Di Piero, Mary Kinzie, Eleanor Wilner
2001 Fanny Howe Selected Poems Elaine Equi, Ann Lauterbach, Bob Perelman
2002 Madeline DeFrees Blue Dusk Joy Harjo, Michael S. Harper, Lawson Inada
2003 Eamon Grennan Still Life with WaterfallJudith Ortiz Cofer, Andrew Hudgins, Robert Wrigley
2004 Donald Revell [15] My Mojave Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander, Harryette Mullen
2005 Anne Winters The Displaced of Capital Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, Alan Shapiro
2006 Eleanor Lerman Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds Carl Dennis, Tony Hoagland, Carol Muske-Dukes
2007 Alice Notley Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005David Baker, Mark McMorris, Marie Ponsot
2008 Henri Cole [16] Blackbird and Wolf Lucie Brock-Broido, B. H. Fairchild, John Koethe
2009 Linda Gregg [2] All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems Dorianne Laux, J. D. McClatchy, James Richardson
2010 John Koethe Ninety-fifth Street Marianne Boruch, David Kirby, John Yau
2011 C.D. Wright One With Others Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, D. A. Powell, Martha Ronk
2012 David Wojahn World Tree Linda Gregerson, David St. John, Natasha Trethewey
2013 Patricia Smith Shoulda Been Jimi SavannahCornelius Eady, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr
2014 Rigoberto González Unpeopled Eden Kwame Dawes, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Susan Stewart
2015 Kevin Young The Book of Hours Marie Howe, A. Van Jordan, Donald Revell
2016 Lynn Emanuel The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected Amy Gerstler, Reginald Gibbons, Kimiko Hahn
2017 Patrick Rosal Brooklyn Antediluvian Rigoberto González, Vijay Seshadri, Susan Wheeler
2018 Craig Morgan Teicher The Trembling Answers Laura Kasischke, Campbell McGrath, Mary Szybist
2019 Kyle Dargan Anagnorisis Major Jackson, Patricia Smith, David Wojahn
2020 Hanif Abdurraqib A Fortune for Your Disaster Garrett Hongo, Tim Seibles, Raquel Salas Rivera

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  9. ↑ "Librarian of Congress Appoints Donald Hall Poet Laureate". Library of Congress . June 14, 2006.
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  16. ↑ Henri Cole Wins $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize | Daily News | Poets & Writers
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