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The Yale Series of Younger Poets
Prize Winners 2018–1998
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Prize Judges 2011–present: Carl Phillips2003–2010: Louise Glück1997–2003: W. S. Merwin1990–1996: James Dickey1983–1989: James Merrill1977–1982: Richard Hugo1969–1976: Stanley Kunitz1958–1968: Dudley Fitts1946–1958: W. H. Auden1942–1945: Archibald MacLeish1933–1942: Stephen Vincent Benét1925–1932: William Alexander Percy1923–1924: Edward Bliss Reed1923: Frederick E. Pierce1919–1923: Charlton M. Lewis
Forthcoming in 2019 NewEdited by Carl Phillips Firsts: A Century of Yale Younger Poets
ReissuesMargaret Walker For My People (winner, 1941)W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus (winner, 1951)John Lawrence Ashbery Some Trees (winner, 1955)Alan Dugan Poems (winner, 1960)Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy (winner, 1961)Robert Hass Field Guide (winner, 1972)Carolyn Forché Gathering the Tribes (winner, 1975)Olga Broumas Beginning with O (winner, 1976)Richard Siken Crush (winner, 2004)
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Celebrating 100 Years
Yale series ofyounger poets
1931 Paul Engle Worn Earth
1932 Shirley Barker The Dark Hills Under
1933 James Agee Permit Me Voyage
1934 Muriel Rukeyser Theory of Flight
1935 Edward Weismiller The Deer Come Down
1936 Margaret Haley The Gardener Mind
1937 Joy Davidman Letter to a Comrade
1938 Reuel Denney The Connecticut River: And Other Poems
1939 Norman Rosten Return Again, Traveler
1940 Jeremy Ingalls The Metaphysical Sword
1941 Margaret Walker For My People
1943 William Meredith Love Letter from an Impossible Land
1944 Charles Edward Butler Cut Is the Branch
1945 Eve Merriam Family Circle
1946 Joan Murray Poems by Joan Murray 1917–1942
1947 Robert Horan A Beginning
1948 Rosalie Moore The Grasshopper’s Man: And Other Poems
1950 Adrienne Cecile Rich A Change of World 1951 W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus
1952 Edgar Bogardus Various Jangling Keys
1953 Daniel Gerard Hoffman An Armada of Thirty Whales
1955 John Lawrence Ashbery Some Trees
1956 James Arlington Wright The Green Wall
1957 John Hollander A Crackling of Thorns
1958 William Hobart Dickey Of the Festivity
1959 George Edwin Starbuck Bone Thoughts
1960 Alan Dugan Poems 1961 Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy1962 Sandra Hochman Manhattan Pastures
1963 Peter Hubert Davison The Breaking of the Day: And Other Poems
1964 Jean Valentine Dream Barker: And Other Poems
1966 James Vincent Tate The Lost Pilot
1967 Helen Chasin Coming Close And Other Poems
1968 Judith Johnson Sherwin Uranium Poems
1969 Hugh Seidman Collecting Evidence
1970 Peter Klappert Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket
1971 Michael Casey Obscenities
1972 Robert Hass Field Guide
1973 Michael Ryan Threats Instead of Trees
1974 Maura Stanton Snow on Snow
1975 Carolyn Forché Gathering the Tribes1976 Olga Broumas Beginning with O
1977 Bin Ramke The Difference between Night and Day
1978 Leslie Ullman Natural Histories
1918 John Chipman Farrar Forgotten Shrines
1918 Howard Swazey Buck The Tempering
1919 David Osborne Hamilton Four Gardens
1919 Alfred Raymond Bellinger Spires and Poplars
1919 Darl MacLeod Boyle Where Lilith Dances
1919 Thomas Caldecot Chubb The White God: And Other Poems
1920 Oscar Williams The Golden Darkness
1920 Viola Chittenden White Horizons
1920 Hervey Allen Wampum and Old Gold
1920 Theodore Howard Banks, Jr. Wild Geese
1921 Paul Tanaquil Attitudes
1921 Medora C. Addison Dreams and a Sword
1921 Bernard Raymund Hidden Waters
1921 Harold Vinal White April
1922 Amos Niven Wilder Battle-Retrospect
1922 Dean Belden Lyman, Jr. The Last Lutanist: And Other Poems
1922 Beatrice Harmon Mosaics
1922 Marion M. Boyd Silver Wands
1923 Elizabeth Blake Up and Down
1924 Dorothy E. Reid Coach into Pumpkin
1925 Thomas Hornsby Ferril High Passage
1925 Eleanor Chapin Slater Quest
1926 Lindley Williams Hubbell Dark Pavilion
1927 Ted Olson A Stranger and Afraid
1927 Francis Claiborne Mason This Unchanging Mask
1927 Mildred Bowers Twist o’ Smoke
1928 Henri Faust Half-Light and Overtones
1928 Frances M. Frost Hemlock Wall
1929 Louise Owen Virtuosa: A Book of Verse
1930 Dorothy Belle Flanagan Dark Certainty
1979 William Virgil Davis One Way to Reconstruct the Scene1980 John Bensko Green Soldiers
1981 David Wojahn Icehouse Lights 1982 Cathy Song Picture Bride 1983 Richard Kenney The Evolution of the Flightless Bird1984 Pamela Alexander Navigable Waterways
1985 George Bradley Terms to Be Met
1986 Julie Agoos Above the Land
1987 Brigit Pegeen Kelly To the Place of Trumpets
1988 Thomas Bolt Out of the Woods 1989 Daniel Hall Hermit with Landscape1990 Christiane Jacox Kyle Bears Dancing in the Northern Air
1991 Nicholas Samaras Hands of the Saddlemaker1992 Jody Gladding Stone Crop
1993 Valerie Wohlfeld Thinking the World Visible1994 T. Crunk Living in the Resurrection1995 Ellen Hinsey Cities of Memory
1996 Talvikki Ansel My Shining Archipelago1998 Craig Arnold Shells 1999 Davis McCombs Ultima Thule 2000 Maurice Manning Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions2001 Sean Singer Discography 2002 Loren Goodman Famous Americans 2003 Peter Streckfus The Cuckoo 2004 Richard Siken Crush 2005 Jay Hopler Green Squall 2006 Jessica Fisher Frail-Craft 2007 Fady Joudah The Earth in the Attic2008 Arda Collins It Is Daylight 2009 Ken Chen Juvenilia 2010 Katherine Larson Radial Symmetry 2011 Eduardo Corral Slow Lightning 2012 Will Schutt Westerly 2013 Eryn Green Eruv 2014 Ansel Elkins Blue Yodel 2015 Noah Warren The Destroyer in the Glass2016 Airea D. Matthews Simulacra 2017 Duy Doan We Play a Game 2018 Yanyi The Year of Blue Water
also available:
Edited by George Bradley The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998)
out of print availableto be reissued in 2019
The Yale Younger Poets Prize champions the most promising new American poets. Awarded since 1919, it is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. The competition is open to emerging poets who have not previously published a book of poetry and who reside in the United States.
past prize winners