Agnes Scott College
Prize Name: Janef Preston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Agnes Scott College
2023 Prizewinner: Julian River, “august”
University of Alabama
Prize Name: Hill-Kohn Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: University of Alabama
2023 Prizewinner: Isabelle Doyle, “Hello Glacier”
Amherst College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: Trustees of Amherst College
2023 Prizewinner: Kei Lim, “Evergreen”
Aquinas College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mrs. Linda Nemec Foster
2023 Prizewinner: Jenna Hoinke, “My Grandfather’s Broken English”
Arizona State University
Prize Name: Katharine C. Turner Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Katharine C. Turner
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arizona
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Arizona
2023 Prizewinner: Jo Blair Cipriano, “Bitch Ghazal”
University of Arkansas
Prize Name: C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Geffrey Davis
2023 Prizewinner: CD Eskilson, "Draft Message to My Sibling After Top Surgery"
Auburn University
Prize Name: Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2023 Prizewinner: Alex Alford, “Duplex”
Augsburg University
Prize Name: John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mrs. Jeanette Mitchell
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Bard College
Prize Name: The Flow Chart Foundation/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: David Kermani, The Flow Chart Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Zoey Rose Collea, “Birdlime”
Baylor University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Beall Poetry Festival
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Beloit College
Prize Name: Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Ms. Marion Stocking
2023 Prizewinner: Qin Qin, “ode to Chella Man and Leo Sheng”
Bennington College
Prize Name: The Green Prize for Poetry
Founded: 2006
Donor: Kelly Green & Forrest MacGregor
2023 Prizewinner: Xiao Ma, “Whales”
Bergen Community College
Prize Name: The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Steven W. Chung
2023 Prizewinner: Anthony Giamanco, “Ojala'”
Boston University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Boston University Creative Writing Program
2023 Prizewinner: Brian Flynn, “The End of the End”
Bowdoin College
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mr. Jack Miller
2023 Prizewinner: Bobby Murray, “Egon Schiele, ‘Lovers (Self-Portrait with Wally)’ (1914)”
Bradley University
Prize Name: Sipple Poetry Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Bradley University
2023 Prizewinner: Rachel L. Watson, “Murmuration”
Brandeis University
Prize Name: The Ramón Feliciano Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Mariana Mcdonald
2023 Prizewinner: Autumn Bellan, “the barbary dove pays me a visit”
Brigham Young University
Prize Name: Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Ethel Lowry Handley
2023 Prizewinner: Ruth A.M, “A Plastified Body”
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Prize Name: Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Burton Goldberg
2023 Prizewinner: Julianna Salinas, “matamoros”
Brown University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
2023 Prizewinner: Megan Slusarewicz, “The Dead Vlei”
Bryn Mawr College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Founded: 1957
Donor: Mrs. Peter McCormick
2023 Prizewinner: Sofi Güven, “A Walk Around the World”
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: The Friends of Larry Levis
2023 Prizewinner: Sharon K. McClain, “Weathering”
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Prize Name: Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: The Friends of Ernesto Trejo
2023 Prizewinner: Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, “The Exit”
California State University, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: California State University, Los Angeles
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
California State University, Northridge
Prize Name: George Dillon Memorial Award
Founded: 1968
Donor: California State University, Northridge
2023 Prizewinner: Markie Metzelar, “A Million Little Things, But It's More Like Thirty”
University of California, Berkeley
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of California, Davis
Prize Name: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Prof. Celeste Turner Wright
2023 Prizewinner: Sarah Mayo, “Laundry Room”
University of California, Irvine
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: Mr. Walter J. Thomson
2023 Prizewinner: Leah Mahealani Anderson, “Stones”
University of California, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Ms. Joan LaBombard
2023 Prizewinner: Mishal Imaan Syed, “wintering in america”
California Polytechnic State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: California Polytechnic State University
2023 Prizewinner: Dylan Terman, “Tales from the Chevy”
Calvin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Calvin College
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Carnegie Mellon University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1977
Donor: Carnegie Mellon University
2023 Prizewinner: Kinapal Paguyo, “Critique of an Arabesque”
Central Michigan University
Prize Name: Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Phillip Sterling
2023 Prizewinner: Cailey Calhoun, “Effects of Fetal Alcoholism”
Central Pennsylvania College
Prize Name: Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Centre College
Prize Name: Paul Cantrell Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Phillip Sterling
2023 Prizewinner: Julia Catherine Johns, “Carnelian”
Chatham University
Prize Name: The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laurie and Henry Reich
2023 Prizewinner: Alasdair Blackwell, “cardinal”
University of Cincinnati (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Soumya Jaiswal, “Standing Vigil at the Altar”
University of Cincinnati (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Hassaan Mirza, “Guzzle”
The City College of San Francisco
Prize Name: The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Mrs. Felicia Farr Lemmon
2023 Prizewinner: Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild, “Elegy for the Undead”
Cleveland State University
Prize Name: Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Cleveland State University
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Colorado State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Colorado State University Faculty & Administration
2023 Prizewinner: Jake Friedman, “The Colorado River (A to Z)”
Columbia College Chicago
Prize Name: Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 Co-Prizewinners: Ankita Sadarjoshi, “sugarburn”
Columbia University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Anonymous
2023 Prizewinner: Anne-Marie Daphne Dillon, “I am your controlling jock boyfriend with a car”
Columbia University (graduate)
Prize Name: Bennett Poetry Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: The New York Times Advertising Department
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Connecticut College
Prize Name: Charles B. Palmer Poetry Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: Connecticut College
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cooper Union
Prize Name: Elizabeth Kray Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Cooper Union
2023 Prizewinner: Ashton Carless, “About Drawing Words”
Cornell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Clyde and Jewell Bothwell Tull
Founded: 1990
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2023 Prizewinner: Alary Schmitt, “Deer Meat”
Cornell University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Litowitz Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Creighton University
Prize Name: Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Joey Rougas, “Dream Boy”
Dartmouth College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Dartmouth College
2023 Prizewinner: Edgar Morales, "Swim"
Davidson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Elizabeth Wade
2023 Prizewinner: Erin Price, “8 kHurts*”
University of Delaware
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Jordanna E. Garland, “Being a POC in a PWI”
University of Denver
Prize Name: Edward M. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Dickinson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Dickinson College
2023 Prizewinner: Lily Bibro, “In that Yellow Light”
Drew University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Susan Vartanian Barba
2023 Prizewinner: Chloe Gocher, “Buried/Sky”
Duke University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Biddle Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Tyler King, “Texan Gospel”
Elizabethtown College
Prize Name: The Raymond and Mausolene Stouffer Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Emerson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Emerson College
2023 Co-Prizewinners: GCM (graduate), “Melody” and Clara Allison (undergraduate), “The Train Home”
Emory University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The Friends of Creative Writing
2023 Prizewinner: Chloe Wegrzynowicz, “For the Horses”
Florida International University
Prize Name: Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. John Bond
2023 Prizewinner: Rosa Sophia, “Villanelle at 37”
Florida State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: John MacKay Shaw Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Florida State University
2023 Prizewinner: Inez Mateosky, “Quick Reminder: We’re Dying”
Florida State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Florida State University
2023 Prizewinner: Hera Naguib, “Okra”
Fordham University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Fordham University
2023 Prizewinner: Prettystar Lopez, “Desahogo”
Franklin & Marshall College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. C. Hunter Boll
2023 Prizewinner: Grace Celi, “Seas are Rising and You Texted Me the Sweetest Thing”
George Mason University
Prize Name: The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Judith V. Lelchook
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
George Washington University
Prize Name: A. E. Claeyssens, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: George Washington University
2023 Prizewinner: India Moore, “13 Ways to Play with Your Body”
Georgetown University
Prize Name: Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Kristen Abram (graduate), “Greens are Good,” and David Edwards (undergraduate), “Memory Bank”
Georgia College
Prize Name: Frankye Davis Mayes Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2023 Co-Prizewinners: Kelsie Doran (graduate), “Big Ugly,” and Jaci Hill (undergraduate), “Sweet Onions”
Georgia State University
Prize Name: The Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2018
Donor: Dr. Katherine Kincer
2023 Prizewinner: Reese Orkin, “Saccharine Dreams”
Gettysburg College
Prize Name: Marion Zulauf Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Sander Zulauf
2023 Prizewinner: Michael R Allessi, “Two Scenes on the Road”
Grinnell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Lorabel Richardson
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2023 Prizewinner: Beatrice Crist, “Thoughts from a Fictive Young Accountant”
Hamilton College
Prize Name: Ralph and Doris Hansmann Poetry Prize
Founded: 1962
Donor: Hamilton College
2023 Prizewinner: Eva Glassman, “Here You Are Again”
Harrisburg Area Community College
Prize Name: Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Hartwick College
Prize Name: Anna Sonder Prize
Founder: 1979
Donor: Dr. Otto Sonder
2023 Prizewinner: Sofia Escobar, “Poesis”
Harvard University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Harvard University
2023 Prizewinner: Taylor Fang, “In Lieu of Watching the News”
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Kalilinoe Detwiler, “The Geckos are on Fire”
Hofstra University
Prize Name: Nancy P. Schnader Award
Founded: 1974
Donor: Hofstra University
2023 Prizewinner: Lauren Ballinger, “twelve oh eight two thousand at four forty nine in the morning: a story told through footnotes”
University of Houston
Prize Name: Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. Karl Kilian
2023 Prizewinner: Adele Elise Williams, “Idolatry for Dummies”
Hollins University
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1971
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2023 Prizewinner: Abigail Kahn, “You Will Get the Flan Pan”
College of the Holy Cross
Prize Name: Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Founded: 1992
Donor: Dominick J. Lepore
2023 Prizewinner: Julianna Mariani, “My Hero”
Hope College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Hope College
2023 Prizewinner: Adriana Barker, "Unwritten"
Hunter College
Prize Name: Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Award
Founded: 1987
Donor: Miss Patricia MacManus, Mrs. Mariquita M. Mullan
2023 Prizewinner: Jenna Murray, “What is left, or how to save it”
University of Idaho
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Karen Trujillo and Don Burnett
2023 Prizewinner: Libby Croce, “Where the Fuck Is the North Star”
Illinois College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Deborah Klang Smith
2023 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
2023 Prizewinner: Ninetta DeBoni, “Crystallized Repentance”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prize Name: Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Founded: 1966
Donor: Mrs. Robert D. Wood
2023 Prizewinner: Gen Ansong, “Ghost at Aisle 5”
Indiana University Bloomington
Prize Name: The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2023 Prizewinner: Bernardo Wade, “My Pops Says He Wants His Popeyes Hot”
Indiana State University
Prize Name: The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1996
Donor: Dr. Elaine L. Kleiner
2023 Prizewinner: Savannah Boulware, “Flames in My Reflection”
Institute of American Indian Arts
Prize Name: The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: James Harder
2023 Prizewinner: Tiana Martinez, “oxtail’s end song”
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Othuke Umukoro, "Leave the title"
Johns Hopkins University
Prize Name: The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Mr. Thomas Newton Bolling
2023 Prizewinner: Anna Scott, “Mid-morning at Oswald’s Bear Ranch”
Kenyon College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Kenyon College
2023 Prizewinner: Aaliyah C. Daniels, “Black Girl Horrified By Sight”
Keystone College
Prize Name: Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Lafayette College
Prize Name: Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Lewis & Clark College
Prize Name: Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Lewis & Clark College
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Prize Name: John & Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Founded: 1967
Donor: Ms. Jeanne Marie Scott
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Loyola University Maryland
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Loyola University Maryland
2023 Prizewinner: Vera Pavlovich, “Waling Waling, or if I were sampaguita”
Loyola University of Chicago
Prize Name: Dr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 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
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Macalester College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Macalester College
2023 Prizewinner: Anna Šverclová, “The Second Time”
Marietta College
Prize Name: The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laura Baudo Sillerman
2023 Prizewinner: Megan Marshall, “Looks that Can Kill”
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. Robert W. Newcomb
2023 Prizewinner: Ava Serra, “Muir Woods: Goosepen Chapels”
University of Mary Washington
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2023 Prizewinner: Elsa Howell, “Green River Blues”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prize Name: Joseph Langland Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2023 Prizewinner: Rachelle Toarmino, “Real Romantic”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Claire H. McCabe (graduate), “Semantic Primes,” and Alanah C. Mendes Andrade (undergraduate), “hiccups”
University of Memphis
Prize Name: The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Founded: 2002
Donor: Deborah L. Talbot
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Messiah University
Prize Name: Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: Abby Smoker, “the sleep of Reason”
Miami-Dade College
Prize Name: Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Founded: 1973
Donor: Kathleen Welton
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Miami University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2023 Prizewinner: Riley Courtney, “River Nymphs and Pebble Goddesses”
Miami University (graduate)
Prize Name: Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2023 Prizewinner: K. Anand-Gall, “Mehndi Ceremony, Night Before Our Wedding”
University of Miami
Prize Name: Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
Founded: 1993
Donor: University of Miami
2023 Prizewinner: Isadora Spangler, “What I Was”
Millersville University
Prize Name: Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: A. D. Cusanno, “Reef Sharks”
University of Michigan (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2023 Prizewinner: Frances Chen, “My mother once said”
University of Michigan (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2023 Prizewinner: Diepreye Amanah, “Of”
University of Minnesota
Prize Name: James Wright Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: University of Minnesota
2023 Prizewinner: Kachina Yeager, “kapemni”
Mississippi State University
Prize Name: Joy Taylor Rieves Poetry Prize
Founded: 2021
Donor: Mississippi State University
2023 Prizewinner: Jessica Maxwell, “Gemini”
University of Missouri at Columbia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: University of Missouri
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Montana
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: University of Montana
2023 Prizewinner: Lauren Tess, “Thaw”
Mount Holyoke College
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1960
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2023 Prizewinner: Ace Chandler, “FUTURE BEEF”
Muskingum University
Prize Name: Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Founded: 1993
Donor: Muskingum University
2023 Prizewinner: Rylee Magnani, “We Can Joke About It Now”
Naropa University
Prize Name: The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Friends of Margaret Randall
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Prize Name: Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gaffney
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Nebraska, MFA
Prize Name: Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. John C. Kenefick
2023 Prizewinner: Terry Belew, “Wish List After Using a 3D Printer”
New Jersey City University
Prize Name: The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: New Jersey City University
2023 Prizewinner: Jack Liddell, “Saudade”
University of New Orleans
Prize Name: Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Ms. Andrea S. Gereighty
2023 Prizewinner: Lin Flores, “TWO BOYS VOGUING AT THE ROLLER RINK”
New Mexico State University
Prize Name: Ruth Scott Poetry Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Judith N. Scott
2023 Prizewinner: Joshua Tise, "Time Spent in the House of Agitation"
New York University
Prize Name: Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: The Arkin Family
2023 Prizewinner: Samantha Long, “Georgia O'Keeffe”
University of North Dakota
Prize Name: The Thomas McGrath Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of North Dakota
2023 Prizewinner: Casey Fuller, “The Prairie”
University of North Texas
Prize Name: Paul R. Voertman Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: University of North Texas
2023 Prizewinner: Dan DeVaughn, “Animal Story”
University of Notre Dame
Prize Name: The Billy Maich Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Jessica Maich
2023 Prizewinner: Kristyn Garza, “Tattoo House”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prize Name: The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: Mrs. Ann W. Burrus
2023 Prizewinner: Quinton Okoro, “The Playroom”
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Prize Name: Noel Callow Poetry Award
Founded: 1963
Donor: Anonymous
2023 Prizewinner: Madeleine Poole, “Pile of Maggots”
North Carolina State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: North Carolina State University
2023 Prizewinner: Phi Chu, “Funeral”
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Northwestern University
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2023 Prizewinner: Natalie Jarrett, “Sonnets for Dead Rappers: Ol’ Dirty Bastard”
Ohio State University
Prize Name: Arthur Rense Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Ms. Paige Rense
2023 Prizewinner: Arah Ko, “Haole Girl”
Oklahoma State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1978
Donor: Oklahoma State University
2023 Prizewinner: Jordyn Perazzo, “Interview with Lachesis of the Three Fates”
Old Dominion University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2023 Co-Prizewinners: Tope A Larayetan (graduate), “P = F/A,” and Megan A. Pastore (undergraduate), “Amorphous”
Oregon State University
Prize Name: Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Oregon State University
2023 Prizewinner: Flora Snowden, “Ode to the Pomegranate”
Pace University
Prize Name: David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: The Promise of Learnings Inc.
2023 Prizewinner: Jack Niemczyk, “The Moon's Phase”
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Prize Name: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: Cayla Garman, “At the Skeet Shoot the Day After Sandy Hook”
Pennsylvania State University
Prize Name: Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mrs. Pearl Steinberg
2023 Prizewinner: Liza Rose, “ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES BECOMING AN ENDANGERED SPECIES”
University of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: William Carlos Williams Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: University of Pennsylvania
2023 Prizewinner: Knar Gavin, “APPTUS INTERRUPTUS”
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
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Pittsburgh
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2023 Co-Prizewinners: T.C. Martin (graduate), “Hephaestus Nursing,” and Chase Constantine (undergraduate), “Because It Makes Things Worse”
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Prize Name: The Colleen M. Brown Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: Rosalie DiPaola, “The Loud House”
Portland State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: The Portland State University Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Hannah Crabtree-Eads, “small deaths”
Pratt Institute
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1992
Donor: Pratt Institute
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Princeton University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Drs. William F. and Jerene Hewitt
2023 Prizewinner: Annie Cao, “In Rome with my mother”
Purdue University
Prize Name: The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas H. Scholl
2023 Prizewinner: Kanika Ahuja, “Lover :: Mango :: Tongue”
Randolph College
Prize Name: Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
2023 Co-Prizewinners: Rene Mullen (graduate), Last Meal,” and Hannah Russler (undergraduate), “Once Upon a Time”
University of Redlands
Prize Name: Jean Burden Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Ms. Virginia Everett Smith
2023 Prizewinner: Sadie E. Forkner, “Spring”
Reed College
Prize Name: The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Reed College
2023 Prizewinner: Cassie Minicucci, “24 December, 1914”
University of Richmond
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2023 Prizewinner: Simone Reid, “Things That Run”
Rice University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Joyce Pounds Hardy
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Rochester
Prize Name: Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Rochester
2023 Prizewinner: Anna Grace Wenger, “Fragments of a list and then thoughts on that list”
Rockford University
Prize Name: Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Rockford University
2023 Prizewinner: Hana Ferguson, “Strawberry”
Rollins College
Prize Name: Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Family & Friends of Arden Goettling
2023 Prizewinners: No prize awarded
Rutgers University
Prize Name: Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2023 Prizewinner: Iris Nguyễn, “In the end, a girl's name”
St. John’s University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas McInerney
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
St. Lawrence University
Prize Name: James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1975
Donor: St. Lawrence University
2023 Prizewinner: Catalina Monteiro, “Land of Broken Eggs (Hometown Abecedarian)”
Saint Mary’s College of California
Prize Name: Russell & Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sam Houston State University
Prize Name: The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Ms. Melissa Morphew
2023 Prizewinner: Candace Simpson, “A Girl in a Spring”
San Francisco State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donors: Friends and Family of Piri Thomas
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
San Francisco State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1996
Donors: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Karla Myn Khine, “Caelum (The Chisel)”
University of San Francisco
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: University of San Francisco
2023 Prizewinner: Lia Sina, "4th of July"
San Jose State University
Prize Name: Virginia de Araujo Prize
Founded: 1981
Donor: Virginia de Araujo Trust
2023 Prizewinner: Hilary King, “Trees on Fire: Poem for the 1991 Tunnel Hill Fire”
Santa Clara University
Prize Name: Tamara Verga Poetry Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Victoria Verga Logan and Frank Verga, Jr.
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sarah Lawrence College (graduate)
Prize Name: The John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Joseph McCrindle and Charmaine Ferenczi
2023 Prizewinner: Rishona Michael, “Bless You”
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College
Prize Name: Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Mr. Peter Cooley
2023 Prizewinner: Molly Fisher, “Disco Ball Blues”
Shippensburg University
Prize Name: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
2023 Prizewinner: Olivia Chovanes, “Body on Body”
Skidmore College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Skidmore College
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Smith College
Prize Name: Anne Bradstreet Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Smith College
2023 Prizewinner: Paige Ellen Passantino, “Oranges”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Rodney Jones
2023 Prizewinner: Sophie Whitten, “Buried in the Corn”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: Carolyn Forman Moe
2023 Prizewinner: Jo Christian, “A Family Ghost, My Father's Shadow”
Spelman College
Prize Name: Edith A. Hambie Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Friends and Family of Edith Hambie
2023 Prizewinner: Tyler Ryan, “Alumna”
Spring Hill College
Prize Name: Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Abby Palopoli, “corduroy”
Stetson University
Prize Name: The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. Phillip Blumberg
2023 Prizewinners: Katherine Orfinger, “Siege on No-Man’s Land”
SUNY Albany
Prize Name: Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: The Liston Family
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Binghamton
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: SUNY Binghamton
2023 Prizewinner: AJ White (graduate), “Semiprecious,” and Elizabeth Plantin (undergraduate), “195th Street”
SUNY Buffalo (graduate)
Prize Name: Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Mr. Dan Liberthson
2023 Prizewinner: Alice Hall, “amtrak”
SUNY Buffalo (undergraduate)
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: SUNY Buffalo
2023 Prizewinner: Katie Naughton, “Easy Listening”
SUNY Farmingdale
Prize Name: Raynor Wallace Poetry Award
Founded: 1988
Donor: SUNY Farmingdale
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Oswego
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. John W. Mincher, Jr.
2023 Prizewinner: Horane Daley, “Trees Talk Tall Lives”
Swarthmore College
Prize Name: Nathalie F. Anderson Prize
Founded: 2021
Donor: Alumni of Swarthmore College
2023 Prizewinner: Finn Verdonk, “David as Galatea”
Sweet Briar College
Prize Name: The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2023 Prizewinner: Avery W. Lewis, “Noctiluca”
Temple University
Prize Name: Albert J. Caplan Prize
Founded: 1985
Donor: Mr. Albert J. Caplan
2023 Prizewinner: Grace Pinkstone, “The Time I Won the Local Youth (7-13) Poetry Competition”
University of Texas at Austin
Prize Name: Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Andrew Julius Gutow Memorial Fund
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Trinity College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Trinity College
2023 Prizewinner: Gemma Feltovich, “Catching a Gecko: On Possession”
Tufts University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Tufts University
2023 Prizewinner: Andres F. Arevalo Zea, “It’s The Way We Fall”
Tulane University
Prize Name: Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mr. Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
2023 Prizewinner: Sydney Soganich, “On Queerness”
United States Naval Academy
Prize Name: Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Mrs. A. Stuart Pitt
2023 Prizewinner: Madeline Torrez, “tourist attractions in key west”
University of Utah
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: University of Utah
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Valdosta State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Mr. Edward Davin Vickers
2023 Prizewinner: Harley Hogan-Stone, “Seconds”
Valparaiso University
Prize Name: Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2023 Prizewinner: Amelie De Jesus, “The Mourning of the Daffodil”
Vanderbilt University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Vanderbilt University
2023 Prizewinner: Caroline Stevens, “Interiors”
Vassar College
Prize Name: Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Mr. Albert H. Gordon
2023 Prizewinner: Caitlin Wong, “Asians Who Misbehave”
University of Virginia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Henry Hoyns Bequest, Charles Wright
2023 Prizewinner: ethan s. evans, “Lemming Crown”
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prize Name: Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Nan Byrne
2023 Prizewinner: Waverley Vesely, “I wish I did not have to”
Virginia Tech
Prize name: Virginia Tech / Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2023 Prizewinner: Dante Fuoco, “straight to grandmother's house”
Wake Forest University
Prize name: The Edwin G. Wilson/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2022
Donor: Wake Forest University
2023 Prizewinner: Katie Bullock Gawf, “Mother (or, A Midwestern Motif)”
Washington College
Prize Name: The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Dr. & Mrs. Jude Pfister
2023 Prizewinner: McKenna Smith, "Sweet Tune"
Washington & Lee University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Anonymous
2023 Prizewinner: Anneliese Schneider, “Voicemail to October”
Washington University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Washington University
2023 Prizewinner: Asha Futterman (graduate), “empathy,” and Juliet Nisly (undergraduate), “Sadie”
University of Washington
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Laurel Wilkinson, “Assess”
Wayne State University
Prize Name: John Clare Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2023 Prizewinner: Isaac Pickell, “An hour after Auschwitz I tasted the perfect pierogi”
Wellesley College
Prize Name: Nevin Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The Family of Betty Nevin Marshall & Robert Nevin
2023 Prizewinner: Emma Sophia Sullivan, “Mary on Ski Break”
Wells College
Prize Name: Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2023 Prizewinner: Emma Sheiman, “Another Composted Poem”
Wesleyan College
Prize Name: George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz
2023 Prizewinner: Lauren Isabella Beamon, “peace: in the eye of the storm”
Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Kate Bernheimer
2023 Prizewinners: Melat Amde Gebremeskel, “Marigold, Mother”
Westminster College
Prize Name: Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: Westminster College
2023 Prizewinner: Saydi Anderson, “Make the Cut”
College of William & Mary
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
2023 Prizewinner: Alexander Lazarus Wolff, “Temple in the Jungle”
Williams College
Prize Name: Bullock Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Academy of American Poets
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wilson College
Prize Name: The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: Natalie Beckner, “My Lady”
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Prize Name: George B. Hill Poetry Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Kevin P. Bjerregaard
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of Wooster
Prize Name: Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Founded: 1983
Donor: Ms. Susan Donnell
2023 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Yale University
Prize Name: Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2023 Prizewinner: Vaughn Goehrig, “The Life and Times of”
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Yonsei University
2023 Prizewinner: Dione Cavadias (graduate), “A Seoul Forest Dream,” and Hanul Kim (undergraduate), “이것은 시다: This is a Poem”
York College of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: Mary Jane’s Diamond Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2023 Prizewinner: Lee Krauss, “In the Mirror Is a Stranger