Morse Poetry Prize

The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, in honor of Samuel French Morse, is a literary award given to an American author's first or second book of poetry.

The annual prize was established in 1983 and sponsored by Northeastern University. Once selected by a recognized poet, the awarded poet received $1000, and the work received publication by Northeastern University Press, and distribution through the University Press of New England. Prize-winning books were published with a striped cover design, characteristic of the Morse Poetry Prize.^[1]

The award was suspended in 2009, due to difficulties with financial sustainability.^[2]

Winners

• 2009: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Tulips, Water, Ash, Judge: Jean Valentine

• 2008: Dana Roeser, In the Truth Room

• 2007: Virginia Chase Sutton, What Brings You to Del Amo

• 2005: Roy Jacobstein, A Form of Optimism

• 2004: Annie Boutelle, Nest of Thistles

• 2003: Dana Roeser, Beautiful Motion: Poems

• 2002: Chris Forhan, The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars

• 2001: Catherine Sasanov, All the Blood Tethers

• 2000: Ted Genoways, Bullroarer: A Sequence

• 1999: Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City

• 1998: James Haug, Walking Liberty

• 1997: Jeffrey Greene, American Spirituals

• 1996: Charles Harper Webb, Reading the Water

• 1995: Michelle Boisseau, Understory

• 1994: Allison Funk, Living at the Epicenter

• 1993: David Moolten, Plums and Ashes

• 1992: Don Boes, The Eighth Continent

• 1991: Carl Phillips, In the Blood

• 1990: George Mills, The House Sails Out of Sight of Home

• 1989: J. Allyn Rosser, Bright Moves

• 1988: Lucia Perillo, Dangerous Life

• 1987: Frank Gaspar, The Holyoke

• 1986: Sue Ellen Thompson, This Body of Silk

• 1985: William Carpenter, Rain

• 1984: Susan Donnelly, Eve Names the Animals, Judge: Anthony Hecht

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literature awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

References