Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Established in 1975, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is (currently) a $25,000 award recognizing the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. The prize is endowed by a gift to the Academy of American Poets of from the New Hope Foundation.
The prize honors Lenore Marshall, poet, novelist, essayist, and nuclear activist.
The jury for 2006 is Carl Dennis, Tony Hoagland, and Carol Muske-Dukes.
[edit] Previous Nominees and Winners
(Winners in bold)
- 2005 (Judges: Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Alan Shapiro)
- Anne Winters, The Displaced Capital
- Marianne Boruch, Poems: New and Selected
- Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks
- Claudia Rankine, Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- Michael Ryan, New and Selected Poems
- Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Selected Poems
- 2004 (Judges: Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, and Harryette Mullen)
- Donald Revell, My Mojave
- Carolyn Forché, The Blue Hour
- Mark McNorris, The Blaze of the Poui
- Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight
- 2003 (Judges: Andrew Hudgins, Judith Ortiz Cofer and Robert Wrigley)
- Eamon Grennan, Still Life with Waterfall
- Laura Kasischke, Dance and Disappear
- Charles Martin, Starting from Sleep
- Suzanne Paola, The Lives of the Saints
- Natasha Trethewey, Bellocqs Ophelia
- Dean Young, Skid
- 2002 (Judges: Joy Harjo, Michael S. Harper, Lawson Inada)
- Madeline DeFrees, Blue Dusk
- 2001 (Judges: Elaine Equi, Ann Lauterbach, Bob Perelman)
- Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
[edit] See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
