Poets' Prize
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The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by an American in the previous calendar year. The prize money is donated by a committee of American poets, who also serve as judges, and by the Nicholas Roerich Museum. The prize is administered by the Poetry Center at West Chester University.
Winners:
- 2001—Philip Booth—Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999 (Viking Penguin, 1999)
- 2000—Wendell Berry—The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint Press, 1998)
- 1999—Marilyn Nelson—The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)
- 1998—Sydney Lea—To the Bone: New and Selected Poems (Illinois University Press, 1996)
- 1998—Leon Stokesbury—Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems (University of Arkansas Press, 1996)
- 1997—Josephine Jacobsen—In the Crevice of Time (Johns Hopkins University, 1995)
- 1996—Marilyn Hacker—Selected Poems 1965-1990 (Norton, 1994)
- 1995—Jared Carter—After the Rain (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1993)
[edit] See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
