Agnes Scott College
Prize Name: Janef Preston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Agnes Scott College
2020 Prizewinner: Sophia Elzie, "Niobe"
University of Alabama
Prize Name: Hill-Kohn Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: University of Alabama
2020 Prizewinner: Jiaming Tang, "Come Closer"
Amherst College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: Trustees of Amherst College
2020 Prizewinner: Kiera Alventosa, "Arbol"
Aquinas College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mrs. Linda Nemec Foster
2020 Prizewinner: Lukas Isenga, "Dans les tranchées du langage (In Language's Trenches)"
Arizona State University
Prize Name: Katharine C. Turner Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Katharine C. Turner
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arizona
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Arizona
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arkansas
Prize Name: C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Geffrey Davis
2020 Prizewinner: Katherine Davis, "Cycles"
Auburn University
Prize Name: Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2020 Prizewinner: Kerri Green, "Here"
Augsburg University
Prize Name: John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mrs. Jeanette Mitchell
2020 Prizewinner: Taiwana Shambley, "How to Love an Alcoholic in Two Parts, Ending with a Drunk Stumbling Down Maryland Avenue"
Bard College
Prize Name: The Flow Chart Foundation/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: David Kermani, The Flow Chart Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Miriam Anastasi, "Deer Poem"
Baylor University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Beall Poetry Festival
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Beloit College
Prize Name: Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Ms. Marion Stocking
2020 Prizewinner: Benjamin Katz, "Desires of Unknown Origins"
Bennington College
Prize Name: The Green Prize for Poetry
Founded: 2006
Donor: Kelly Green & Forrest MacGregor
2020 Prizewinner: Delilah Silberman, "Tempered Clavier"
Bergen Community College
Prize Name: The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Steven W. Chung
2020 Prizewinner: Layla A. Williams, "Mid-Summer Moonrises"
Boston University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Boston University Creative Writing Program
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Bowdoin College
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mr. Jack Miller
2020 Prizewinner: Zoe Wilson, "For M.O."
Bradley University
Prize Name: Sipple Poetry Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Bradley University
2020 Prizewinner: Lisa Nelson Raabe, "Every Night"
Brandeis University
Prize Name: The Ramón Feliciano Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Mariana McDonald
2020 Prizewinner: Cayenn Landau, "mother’s worst ex as seabird"
Brigham Young University
Prize Name: Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Ethel Lowry Handley
2020 Prizewinner: Alixa Brobbey, "KanJam" (undergraduate) and Lincoln Ballif, "When You Asked Me If I Think We're Ready for Children" (graduate)
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Prize Name: Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Burton Goldberg
2020 Prizewinner: Quentin Felton, "Lessons on Confinement"
Brown University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Bryn Mawr College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Founded: 1957
Donor: Mrs. Peter McCormick
2020 Prizewinner: Elena Asofsky, "Denial Lullaby Group Text"
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: The Friends of Larry Levis
2020 Prizewinner: Nohemi Samudio Gamis, "Afterlife"
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Prize Name: Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: The Friends of Ernesto Trejo
2020 Prizewinner: Mariah Bosch, "Double Sonnet, Suspended"
California State University, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: California State University, Los Angeles
2020 Prizewinner: Michael A. Reyes, "Aubade"
California State University, Northridge
Prize Name: George Dillon Memorial Award
Founded: 1968
Donor: California State University, Northridge
2020 Prizewinner: Annabelle Bonebrake, "The Ranch House"
University of California, Berkeley
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Max Kaisler, "TABLEAU VIVANT"
University of California, Davis
Prize Name: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Prof. Celeste Turner Wright
2020 Prizewinner: Meredith Herndon, "On Monday There Were Consequences"
University of California, Irvine
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: Mr. Walter J. Thomson
2020 Prizewinner: Cassandra Leone, "Spinach Lasagna"
University of California, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Ms. Joan LaBombard
2020 Prizewinner: Aileen Carey, "Man's Best Friend"
California Polytechnic State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: California Polytechnic State University
2020 Prizewinner: Caleb Nichols, "Ken"
Calvin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Calvin College
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Carnegie Mellon University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1977
Donor: Carnegie Mellon University
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Central Michigan University
Prize Name: Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Phillip Sterling
2020 Prizewinner: Emily Bober, "I Told Them That You Were Not a Bird"
Central Pennsylvania College
Prize Name: Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Centre College
Prize Name: Paul Cantrell Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Phillip Sterling
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Chatham University
Prize Name: The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laurie and Henry Reich
2020 Prizewinner: Alexis Draut, "Henry County"
University of Cincinnati (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Lila Baumann, "If Mothers Were Flowers"
University of Cincinnati (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Renee Branum, "Glow and Afterglow"
The City College of San Francisco
Prize Name: The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Mrs. Felicia Farr Lemmon
2020 Prizewinner: Jaime Luna, "Renaissance Walk"
Cleveland State University
Prize Name: Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Cleveland State University
2020 Prizewinner: Zach Peckham, "Safe For Work"
Colorado State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Colorado State University Faculty & Administration
2020 Prizewinner: Jess Turner, "My Family Left the House in the Woods"
Columbia College Chicago
Prize Name: Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Lily Someson "portrait of house with visitor"
Columbia University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Anonymous
2020 Prizewinner: Cara Maines, "Eurydice"
Columbia University (graduate)
Prize Name: Bennett Poetry Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: The New York Times Advertising Department
2020 Prizewinner: Robiny Jamerson, "The Stringing of the Bow"
Connecticut College
Prize Name: Charles B. Palmer Poetry Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: Connecticut College
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cooper Union
Prize Name: Elizabeth Kray Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Cooper Union
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cornell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Clyde and Jewell Bothwell Tull
Founded: 1990
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2020 Prizewinner: Charlie Kelley-Pegg, "Helium"
Cornell University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Litowitz Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Creighton University
Prize Name: Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Caleb Jones, "Dust"
Dartmouth College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Dartmouth College
2020 Prizewinner: James King, "Our Respective Squares"
University of Delaware
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Michael Gregory, "Every Hair is Numbered"
University of Denver
Prize Name: Edward M. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Dickinson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Dickinson College
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Drew University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Susan Vartanian Barba
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Duke University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Biddle Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Daniela Stephanou, "Maria"
Elizabethtown College
Prize Name: The Raymond and Mausolene Stouffer Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Emerson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Emerson College
2020 Prizewinner: Lauren Licona, "lineage ending in erasure" (undergraduate) and Livia Meneghin, "knotted" (graduate)
Emory University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The Friends of Creative Writing
2020 Prizewinner: Nicole Sadek, "Hushpuppies"
Florida International University
Prize Name: Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. John Bond
2020 Prizewinner: Freesia McKee, "Sometimes I Imagine the Back Wall of This Room is Rolled Open to the Night’s Solitude Like an Alley Garage with The Door Cranked Up"
Florida State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: John MacKay Shaw Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Florida State University
2020 Prizewinner: Nicholas Holt, "Half of a Pizza in the Nuclear Apocalypse"
Florida State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Florida State University
2020 Prizewinner: Diamond Forde, "The Fourth Book of Alice Called Family Tree 2:1, A Census of Daughters"
Fordham University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Fordham University
2020 Prizewinner: Patrick Raneses, "Pondlight"
Franklin & Marshall College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. C. Hunter Boll
2020 Prizewinner: Kimberly Brandolisio, "Self-Portrait as Baby Albatrosses"
George Mason University
Prize Name: The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Judith V. Lelchook
2020 Prizewinner: Eli V., "Polymorphism"
George Washington University
Prize Name: A. E. Claeyssens, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: George Washington University
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Georgetown University
Prize Name: Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Georgia College
Prize Name: Frankye Davis Mayes Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Georgia State University
Prize Name: The Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2018
Donor: Dr. Katherine Kincer
Winner: Caroline Crew, "Another Year of Blue"
Gettysburg College
Prize Name: Marion Zulauf Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Sander Zulauf
2020 Prizewinner: Madison Sidle, "What is a Viola?"
Grinnell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Lorabel Richardson
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2020 Prizewinner: Summer Bordon, "Margot to Cuca - Havana 1961"
Hamilton College
Prize Name: Ralph and Doris Hansmann Poetry Prize
Founded: 1962
Donor: Hamilton College
2020 Prizewinner: Madison Lazenby, "Last-Minute Mothering"
Harrisburg Area Community College
Prize Name: Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Hartwick College
Prize Name: Anna Sonder Prize
Founder: 1979
Donor: Dr. Otto Sonder
2020 Prizewinner: Amanda Thurston, "A Series of Spokes in a Wheel"
Harvard University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Harvard University
2020 Prizewinner: Letitia Chan, "Survival as Aesthetic Matter"
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Micah Lau, "Free Skate"
Hofstra University
Prize Name: Nancy P. Schnader Award
Founded: 1974
Donor: Hofstra University
2020 Prizewinner: Taylor Hunsaker, "Change"
University of Houston
Prize Name: Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. Karl Kilian
2020 Prizewinner: Grace Wagner, "The Gift Shop at the End of the World"
Hollins University
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1971
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2020 Prizewinner: Margot Melançon, "He Spoke from the Blackboard, Enlivened by the Cross Hanging Above His Head"
College of the Holy Cross
Prize Name: Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Founded: 1992
Donor: Dominick J. Lepore
2020 Prizewinner: Leah Zogby, "Alive or Living?"
Hope College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Hope College
2020 Prizewinner: Mitch VanAcker, "To a Mummified Fish"
Hunter College
Prize Name: Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Award
Founded: 1987
Donor: Miss Patricia MacManus, Mrs. Mariquita M. Mullan
2020 Prizewinner: Julia Amber, "Thyris Sepulchralis"
University of Idaho
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Karen Trujillo and Don Burnett
2020 Prizewinner: Ryan Downum, "To Be a Handful of Nails Left Out in the Snow Overnight"
Illinois College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Deborah Klang Smith
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Illinois Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Arthur W. Hinners & Louise Hinners Sipfle Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Friends & Family of Louise Hinners Sipfle
2020 Prizewinner: Yovana Milosevic, "Ruined"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prize Name: Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Founded: 1966
Donor: Mrs. Robert D. Wood
2020 Prizewinner: Peyton Blodgett, "Partial Visitation (at the Waterfront Music Festival)"
Indiana University Bloomington
Prize Name: The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2020 Prizewinner: S. J. Ghaus, "What I Wish, Instead"
Indiana State University
Prize Name: The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1996
Donor: Dr. Elaine L. Kleiner
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Johns Hopkins University
Prize Name: The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Mr. Thomas Newton Bolling
2020 Prizewinner: Sebastian Kettner, "Two Boys"
Kenyon College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Kenyon College
2020 Prizewinner: A. Shaikh, "Monsoon of 2016"
Keystone College
Prize Name: Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2020 Prizewinner: Catherine Boyle, "Ode to My Hair Towel"
Lafayette College
Prize Name: Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2020 Prizewinner: Maya Nylund, "Psalm for Claire Fisher"
Lewis & Clark College
Prize Name: Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Lewis & Clark College
2020 Prizewinner: Ben Virgin, "Cow"
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Prize Name: John & Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Founded: 1967
Donor: Ms. Jeanne Marie Scott
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Loyola University Maryland
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Loyola University Maryland
2020 Prizewinner: Georgia Hamann, "Les fleurs de la pluie"
Loyola University of Chicago
Prize Name: Dr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Lynchburg
Prize name: Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Miriam T. and Jude M. Pfister
2020 Prizewinner: C. Hiatt O'Connor, "Thoughts of Horses During Sunday Feed"
Macalester College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Macalester College
2020 Prizewinner: Sophia Schlesinger, "Archaia Polis Lato"
Marietta College
Prize Name: The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laura Baudo Sillerman
2020 Prizewinner: Kayla Snider, "Five Dollars and Forty-Seven Cent"
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. Robert W. Newcomb
2020 Prizewinner: Hannah Beilenson, "Two Horses Grazing"
University of Mary Washington
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2020 Prizewinner: Sarah Parker, "you cannot eat a koi fish"
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prize Name: Joseph Langland Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2020 Prizewinner: Shana Bulhan, "i didn’t faint for feint of you"
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Memphis
Prize Name: The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Founded: 2002
Donor: Deborah L. Talbot
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Messiah College
Prize Name: Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: Christiana Martin, "Hope, New Jersey"
Miami-Dade College
Prize Name: Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Founded: 1973
Donor: Kathleen Welton
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Miami University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2020 Prizewinner: Delaney Heisterkamp, "sleep debt is out, multiculturalism is in"
Miami University (graduate)
Prize Name: Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2020 Prizewinner: Jack Nachmanovitch, "On Reading On Reading Horace"
University of Miami
Prize Name: Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
Founded: 1993
Donor: University of Miami
2020 Prizewinner: Maeve Holler, "Self-Portrait as Black Hole"
Millersville University
Prize Name: Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: Sarah Nicole Tyler, "Daughter of the Earth, She Is"
University of Michigan (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2020 Prizewinner: Lynne Bekdash, "Immigrant Daughter Ghazal"
University of Michigan (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2020 Prizewinner: Michael M.Weinstein, "Anniversary"
University of Minnesota
Prize Name: James Wright Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: University of Minnesota
2020 Prizewinner: Mariela Lemus, "walls, or construction of the family"
University of Missouri at Columbia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: University of Missouri
2020 Prizewinner: Paul Lee, "Bombs Bursting in Air"
University of Montana
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: University of Montana
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Mount Holyoke College
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1960
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2020 Prizewinner: Mira Rosenkotz, "andandand remind us of long ago"
Muskingum College
Prize Name: Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Founded: 1993
Donor: Muskingum College
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Naropa University
Prize Name: The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Friends of Margaret Randall
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Prize Name: Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gaffney
2020 Prizewinner: Jessica Poli, "Holmes Lake"
University of Nebraska, MFA
Prize Name: Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. John C. Kenefick
2020 Prizewinner: Shyla Shehan, "This"
New Jersey City University
Prize Name: The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: New Jersey City University
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of New Orleans
Prize Name: Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Ms. Andrea S. Gereighty
2020 Prizewinner: Nikki Ummel, "Altar"
New Mexico State University
Prize Name: Ruth Scott Poetry Award
Donor: Judith N. Scott
2020 Prizewinner: Tonya Suther, "Frayed Laces"
New York University
Prize Name: Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: The Arkin Family
2020 Prizewinner: Angela Cai, "How We Wade"
University of North Dakota
Prize Name: The Thomas McGrath Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of North Dakota
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of North Texas
Prize Name: Paul R. Voertman Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: University of North Texas
2020 Prizewinner: Aza Pace, "My Father Asks What I'm Looking At"
University of Notre Dame
Prize Name: The Billy Maich Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Jessica Maich
2020 Prizewinner: Jahan Khajavi, "[Remember the day David Buckel set himself on fire]"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prize Name: The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: Mrs. Ann W. Burrus
2020 Prizewinner: Rachel Slover, "Temple"
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Prize Name: Noel Callow Poetry Award
Founded: 1963
Donor: Anonymous
2020 Prizewinner: Tegan Daly, "an imperfect figure"
North Carolina State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: North Carolina State University
2020 Prizewinner: Misha Lazzara, "11w, 5d"
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Northwestern University
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Northwest Indian College
Prize Name: The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: James Harder
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Ohio State University
Prize Name: Arthur Rense Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Ms. Paige Rense
2020 Prizewinner: Alyssa Froehling, "Carrion"
Oklahoma State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1978
Donor: Oklahoma State University
2020 Prizewinner: Alysse Gopalakrishnan, "Woman Turned Inside Out"
Old Dominion University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2020 Prizewinners: Renée Nicole Macklin, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs" (undergraduate) and Courtney Tala, "There is a Small TV Mounted in the Cobwebbed Corner of the Breakroom" (graduate)
Oregon State University
Prize Name: Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Oregon State University
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Pace University
Prize Name: David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: The Promise of Learnings Inc.
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Prize Name: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: Emily Dempsey, "Caricature Artist in a 7-Eleven at 1 O’clock in the Morning"
Pennsylvania State University
Prize Name: Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mrs. Pearl Steinberg
2020 Prizewinner: Nakul Grover, "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"
University of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: William Carlos Williams Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: University of Pennsylvania
2020 Prizewinner: Julien Brugeron, "FAILURE IS THEIR ORPHAN: THREE ACTS"
Perimeter College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The Chattahoochee Review
2019 Winner: No prize awarded
Piedmont College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Barbara Brown Taylor
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Pittsburgh
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2020 Co-prizewinners: Joshua Corson, "Half-life" and Joseph Jang, "My Father Calls from His Chair"
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Prize Name: The Colleen M. Brown Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: Kathryn Boehnke, "Watching the Fire"
Portland State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: The Portland State University Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Joshua Pollock, "Monument to the Revolution"
Pratt Institute
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1992
Donor: Pratt Institute
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Princeton University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Drs. William F. and Jerene Hewitt
2020 Prizewinner: Silma Berrada, "epigenetics"
Purdue University
Prize Name: The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas H. Scholl
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Randolph College
Prize Name: Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
2020 Prizewinner: Michaela Seales, "Metamorphosis of an Insomniac"
University of Redlands
Prize Name: Jean Burden Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Ms. Virginia Everett Smith
2020 Prizewinner: Olivia Umstead, "103 Degrees"
Reed College
Prize Name: The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Reed College
2020 Prizewinner: Ben Read, "Passion Façade"
University of Richmond
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2020 Prizewinner: Megan Brooks, "The Rats of the Paris Opera House"
Rice University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Joyce Pounds Hardy
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Rochester
Prize Name: Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Rochester
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Rockford University
Prize Name: Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Rockford University
2020 Prizewinner: Fatima Alzahraa Hussein, "Tick Tick Tick"
Rollins College
Prize Name: Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Family & Friends of Arden Goettling
2020 Prizewinners: Michael Mcnamara, "One More"
Rutgers University
Prize Name: Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2020 Prizewinner: Hyunjin Cheo, "HER WOODEN KISS"
St. John’s University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas McInerney
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
St. Lawrence University
Prize Name: James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1975
Donor: St. Lawrence University
2020 Prizewinner: Sydney Minnehan, "Analogies to various facets of evolution (people of influence)"
Saint Mary’s College of California
Prize Name: Russell & Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sam Houston State University
Prize Name: The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Ms. Melissa Morphew
2020 Prizewinner: Tyler Deaton, "A Bed of Bees"
San Francisco State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donors: Friends and Family of Piri Thomas
2020 Prizewinner: Adaku Okeke, "Black Girl Magic"
San Francisco State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1996
Donors: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Ana Cielito Fuentes, "Little Miss Nobody"
University of San Francisco
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: University of San Francisco
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
San Jose State University
Prize Name: Virginia de Araujo Prize
Founded: 1981
Donor: Virginia de Araujo Trust
2020 Prizewinner: Rachel A. Crawford, "Visiting Side B"
Santa Clara University
Prize Name: Tamara Verga Poetry Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Victoria Verga Logan and Frank Verga, Jr.
2020 Prizewinner: Erika Rasmussen, "Psalm 151, The Warmth I Offer Myself"
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sarah Lawrence College (graduate)
Prize Name: The John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in Poetry
Donor: Joseph McCrindle and Charmaine Ferenczi
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College
Prize Name: Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Mr. Peter Cooley
2020 Prizewinner: Emma Yahr, "Healing: An Index"
Shippensburg University
Prize Name: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
2020 Prizewinner: Victoria Helfrick, "Dandelion"
Skidmore College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Skidmore College
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Smith College
Prize Name: Anne Bradstreet Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Smith College
2020 Prizewinner: Ira Goga, "The Kitchen, Indexed"
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Rodney Jones
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: Carolyn Forman Moe
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Spelman College
Prize Name: Edith A. Hambie Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Friends and Family of Edith Hambie
2020 Prizewinner: K. Miaya Webster, "Blood Stained Glass"
Spring Hill College
Prize Name: Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Stetson University
Prize Name: The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. Phillip Blumberg
2020 Prizewinners: No prize awarded
SUNY Albany
Prize Name: Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: The Liston Family
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Binghamton
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: SUNY Binghamton
2020 Prizewinners: Sofia Rosario, "Matriarch" (undergraduate) and Macaulay Glynn, "Animal Cabinet" (graduate)
SUNY Buffalo - Graduate
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: SUNY Buffalo
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Buffalo - Undergraduate
Prize Name: Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Mr. Dan Liberthson
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Farmingdale
Prize Name: Raynor Wallace Poetry Award
Founded: 1988
Donor: SUNY Farmingdale
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Oswego
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. John W. Mincher, Jr.
2020 Prizewinner: Madeline Weisbeck, "Les Engenues"
Sweet Briar College
Prize Name: The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Temple University
Prize Name: Albert J. Caplan Prize
Founded: 1985
Donor: Mr. Albert J. Caplan
2020 Prizewinner: Matthew Johnston, "Atlantic Songs"
University of Texas at Austin
Prize Name: Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Andrew Julius Gutow Memorial Fund
2020 Prizewinners: Matthew Leger, "Airport Blvd." (undergraduate) and Hedgie Choi, "Phases" (graduate)
Trinity College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Trinity College
2020 Prizewinner: Caroline Richards, "When I Think of Love"
Tufts University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Tufts University
2020 Prizewinner: Leticia Priebe Rocha, "Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, Better Known"
Tulane University
Prize Name: Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mr. Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
United States Naval Academy
Prize Name: Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Mrs. A. Stuart Pitt
2020 Prizewinner: Lilli Hirth, "East Coast"
University of Utah
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: University of Utah
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Valdosta State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Mr. Edward Davin Vickers
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Valparaiso University
Prize Name: Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2020 Prizewinner: Faith L. Smith, "City Girl"
Vanderbilt University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Vanderbilt University
2020 Prizewinner: Hayes Cooper, "Our Elegy"
Vassar College
Prize Name: Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Mr. Albert H. Gordon
2020 Prizewinner: Clarissa Hyde, "Sawbuck"
University of Virginia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Henry Hoyns Bequest, Charles Wright
2020 Prizewinner: Lydia Brown, "The Dream House"
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prize Name: Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Nan Byrne
2020 Prizewinner: Hayley Graffunder, "Doomsday Baby and I"
Virginia Tech
Prize name: Virginia Tech / Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2020 Prizewinner: Bessie Flores Zaldívar, "Land Sickness: A Sestina"
Washington College
Prize Name: The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Dr. & Mrs. Jude Pfister
2020 Prizewinner: Teddy Friedline, "Gender Of The Poet, As Evaluated Through First & Second Derivative Tests"
Washington & Lee University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Anonymous
2020 Prizewinner: Kathryn Muensterman, "Eschatology"
Washington University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Washington University
2020 Prizewinners: Kate Wardenburg, "2003 Questions I'm Still Pondering" (undergraduate) and Justin Danzy, "Isaac"
University of Washington
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: M. Alexander Turner, "Cosmic Microwave Background"
Wayne State University
Prize Name: John Clare Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wellesley College
Prize Name: Nevin Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The Family of Betty Nevin Marshall & Robert Nevin
2020 Prizewinner: Sanjana Thakur, "Birthday Party"
Wells College
Prize Name: Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2020 Prizewinner: Michael Gray Bulla, "Masochist"
Wesleyan College
Prize Name: George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Kate Bernheimer
2020 Prizewinners: Gabriel Ridout, "Laurel Canyon"
Westminster College
Prize Name: Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: Westminster College
2020 Prizewinner: Marilyn Salguero, "Bitch"
College of William & Mary
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
2020 Prizewinner: Shane Moran, "Matoaka"
Williams College
Prize Name: Bullock Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Academy of American Poets
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wilson College
Prize Name: The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: Kristyn Covert, "Avery"
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Prize Name: George B. Hill Poetry Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Kevin P. Bjerregaard
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of Wooster
Prize Name: Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Founded: 1983
Donor: Ms. Susan Donnell
2020 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Yale University
Prize Name: Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2020 Prizewinner: Olivia Belliveau, "Daydream"
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Yonsei University
2020 Prizewinners: Min Kim, "Dots and Zots, and My Final Youth" and Elijah Lee, "To Tea"
York College of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: Mary Jane’s Diamond Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2020 Prizewinner: Samantha Sabatini, "Tu Me Manques"
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