National Chapbook Fellowship

Last updated April 26, 2019

The Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship is awarded once a year to two American poets under 30 years of age who have yet to publish a first book of poems. Two renowned poets select and introduce a winning manuscript for publication. Each winner receives an additional $1000 prize.

The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned writers as Witter Bynner, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens.

Winners

2009:

A History of Waves by Haines Eason, selected by Mark Doty
The Good News of the Ground by Heidi Johannesen Poon, selected by Cole Swensen

Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.

Cole Swensen is an American poet, translator, editor, copywriter, and professor. Swensen was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and is the author of more than ten poetry collections and as many translations of works from the French. She received her B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz before going on to become the now-Previous Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. She taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa until 2012 when she joined the faculty of Brown University's Literary Arts Program.

2008:

Blue House by Christopher Nelson, selected by Mary Jo Bang
Swerve by John Estes, selected by C.K. Williams

Mary Jo Bang is an American poet.

2007:

Dear Wild Abandon by Andrew Michael Roberts, selected by Mark Strand
Dream of Water by Kate Ingold, selected by Haryette Mullen

Mark Strand Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.

2006:

Mayport by Maureen Thorson, selected by Heather McHugh
The Eights by Dan Chelotti, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa

Heather McHugh is an award-winning American poet, notable for translating poetry from Eastern Europe.

Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Komunyakaa received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the poetry world.

2005

Guarding the Violins by Misty Harper, selected by Charles Simic
What Remains by Stuart Greenhouse, selected by Brenda Hillman

Charles Simic is a Serbian-American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963-1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.

Brenda Hillman, is an American poet and translator. She is the author of nine collections of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of Creative Writing, she holds the Olivia Filippi Chair in Poetry at Saint Mary's College of California, in Moraga, California. Hillman is also involved in non-violent activism as a member of the Code Pink Working Group in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2016, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

2004

Meditations by Joshua Poteat, selected by Mary Oliver
Woman in a Boat by K. E. Allen, selected by Robert Creeley

2003

Rowing Through Fog by Kerri Webster, selected by Carl Phillips
The Morning Hour by Dawn Lundy Martin, selected by C. D. Wright

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