Walt Whitman Award

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The Walt Whitman Award is given by the Academy of American Poets to an American poet who has never before published a book of poetry. The award, named in honour of American Poet Walt Whitman, was established in 1975 and includes publication of a first book, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Louisiana State University Press currently publishes the winning manuscript, which is chosen by an eminent poet. The Academy purchases copies of the book and distributes it to members. Winners are announced in May.

The judge for the 2007 award will be August Kleinzahler.

[edit] Winners

2006: Anne Pierson Wiese, Floating City (LSU Press) Kay Ryan
2005: Mary Rose O’Reilley, Half Wild (LSU Press) Mary Oliver
2004: Geri Doran, Resin (LSU Press) Henri Cole
2003: Tony Tost, Invisible Bride (LSU Press) C D. Wright
2002: Sue Kwock Kim, Notes from the Divided Country (LSU Press) Yusef Komunyakaa
2001: John Canaday, The Invisible World (LSU Press) Sherod Santos
2000: Ben Doyle, Radio, Radio (LSU Press) Susan Howe
1999: Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (LSU Press) James Tate
1998: Jan Heller Levi, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder (LSU Press) Alice Fulton
1997: Barbara Ras, Bite Every Sorrow (LSU Press) C. K. Williams
1996: Joshua Clover, Madonna anno domini (LSU Press) Jorie Graham
1995: Nicole Cooley, Resurrection (LSU Press) Cynthia Macdonald
1994: Jan Richman, Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything (LSU Press) Robert Pinsky
1993: Alison Hawthorne Deming, Science and Other: Poems (LSU Press) Gerald Stern
1992: Stephen Yenser, The Fire in All Things (LSU Press) Richard Howard
1991: Greg Glazner, From the Iron Chair (W. W. Norton) Charles Wright
1990: Elaine Terranova, The Cult of the Right Hand (Doubleday) Rita Dove
1989: Martha Hollander, The Game of Statues (Atlantic Monthly Press) W.S. Merwin
1988: April Bernard, Blackbird Bye Bye (Random House) Amy Clampitt
1987: Judith Baumel, The Weight of Numbers (Wesleyan U. Press) Mona Van Duyn
1986: Chris Llewellyn, Fragments from the Fire (Viking) Maxine Kumin
1985: Christianne Balk, Bindweed (Macmillan) Anthony Hecht
1984: Eric Pankey, For the New Year (Atheneum) Mark Strand
1983: Christopher Gilbert, Across the Mutual Landscape (Graywolf Press) Michael S. Harper
1982: Anthony Petrosky, Jurgis Petraskas (Louisiana State University Press) Philip Levine
1981: Alberto Ríos, Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press) Donald Justice
1980: Jared Carter, Work, for the Night is Coming (Macmillan) Galway Kinnell
1979: David Bottoms, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (Morrow) Robert Penn Warren
1978: Karen Snow, Wonders (Viking) Louis Simpson
1977: Lauren Shakely, Guilty Bystander (Random House) Diane Wakoski
1976: Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (Doubleday) William Stafford
1975: Reg Saner, Climbing into the Roots (Harper & Row) William Meredith

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

  • [1] Walt Whitman Award Web page from the American Academy of Poets Web site
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