Agnes Scott College
Prize Name: Janef Newman Preston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Agnes Scott College
2024 Prizewinner: Carole Gilley, “i count”
University of Alabama
Prize Name: Hill-Kohn Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: University of Alabama
2024 Prizewinner: Jessica Cordes, “Orcinus”
Amherst College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: Trustees of Amherst College
2024 Prizewinner: Gabrielle Avena, “Slow Death of the Generic Tree Drawing”
Aquinas College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mrs. Linda Nemec Foster
2024 Prizewinner: Lianne Martinez Bullain, “From Vibrant Colors, Bipolar Weather, and Alligators”
Arizona State University
Prize Name: Katharine C. Turner Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Katharine C. Turner
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arizona
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Arizona
2024 Prizewinner: Astrid Liu, “quiet midautumn night's haibun”
University of Arkansas
Prize Name: C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Geffrey Davis
2024 Prizewinner: Sarah Barch, “Gumdrops Line the Transmission Towers”
Auburn University
Prize Name: Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2024 Prizewinner: Heidi VanderVelde, “I Saw My Dead Father in the Publix Produce Aisle”
Augsburg University
Prize Name: John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mrs. Jeanette Mitchell
2024 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
2024 Prizewinner: Anna Spiro, “we pretend we are not happening”
Baylor University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Beall Poetry Festival
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Beloit College
Prize Name: Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Ms. Marion Stocking
2024 Prizewinner: Casey Barasch, “Parade Pt 2”
Bennington College
Prize Name: The Green Prize for Poetry
Founded: 2006
Donor: Kelly Green and Forrest MacGregor
2024 Prizewinner: Willa Brosnihan, “Whales”
Bergen Community College
Prize Name: The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Steven W. Chung
2024 Prizewinner: R.J. Tierney, “Girl in a Kimono”
Boston University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Boston University Creative Writing Program
2024 Prizewinner: Alejandro Aguirre, “Trailer Park Garden”
Bowdoin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mr. Jack Miller
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Bradley University
Prize Name: The Kevin Stein Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Kevin Stein
2024 Prizewinner: L.T. Ward, “Do not call me strong”
Brandeis University
Prize Name: The Ramón Feliciano Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Mariana Mcdonald
2024 Prizewinner: Rachel Shpuntoff, "Twelve years since the kidnap and murder that shook the country: the second trial begins"
Brigham Young University
Prize Name: Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Ethel Lowry Handley
2024 Prizewinner: Samantha M. Sorenson, “Thoughts While Watching My Mother Make Dinner”
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Prize Name: Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Burton Goldberg
2024 Prizewinner: Isabelle Cachia-Riedl, “Fugue”
Brown University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
2024 Prizewinner: Pranav Gundrala, “Selected Flowers”
Bryn Mawr College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Founded: 1957
Donor: Mrs. Peter McCormick
2024 Prizewinner: Mel G, “A is for Anoush”
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: The Friends of Larry Levis
2024 Prizewinner: Emily Peacock, “a series of letters out”
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Prize Name: Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: The Friends of Ernesto Trejo
2024 Prizewinner: Phoua Lee, “pov: asian girl vendetta no. ∞”
California State University, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: California State University, Los Angeles
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
California State University, Northridge
Prize Name: George Dillon Memorial Award
Founded: 1968
Donor: California State University, Northridge
2024 Prizewinner: Gianne Braza, “Sonnet for My Autistic Brother”
University of California, Berkeley
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of California, Davis
Prize Name: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Prof. Celeste Turner Wright
2024 Prizewinner: Emily Anne Granger, “Highway Hosts”
University of California, Irvine
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: Mr. Walter J. Thomson
2024 Prizewinner: Somi Jun, "Threshold"
University of California, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Ms. Joan LaBombard
2024 Prizewinner: Eli Nachimson, “autism screening questionnaire”
California Polytechnic State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: California Polytechnic State University
2024 Prizewinner: Sarah Marks, “Permission”
Calvin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Calvin College
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Carnegie Mellon University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1977
Donor: Carnegie Mellon University
2024 Prizewinner: Annie Nguyễn, “Coma”
Central Michigan University
Prize Name: The Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Phillip Sterling
2024 Prizewinner: Juliana Theis, “Barbie and Ken”
Central Pennsylvania College
Prize Name: Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: Haylee Boggs, “The Crow and I”
Centre College
Prize Name: The Cantrell Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Phillip Sterling
2024 Prizewinner: Taylor Broder, “Virgin, in its least pure form”
Chatham University
Prize Name: The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laurie and Henry Reich
2024 Prizewinner: Ashley Christian, “Home Buried”
University of Cincinnati
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Leila Chatti (graduate), "Living," and Tyler McDonald (undergraduate), “Zuihitsu on Braiding and Wishing to be a Cricket”
The City College of San Francisco
Prize Name: The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Mrs. Felicia Farr Lemmon
2024 Prizewinner: Ruben Diaz, “Emotional Spaces”
Cleveland State University
Prize Name: Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Cleveland State University
2024 Prizewinner: Stephanie Ginese, “Prints”
Colorado State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Colorado State University Faculty and Administration
2024 Prizewinner: Tashiana Seebeck, “Ars Poetica at the End of Girlhood”
Columbia College Chicago
Prize Name: Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Huckleberry Shelf, “prepositions”
Columbia University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Anonymous
2024 Prizewinner: Esther Sun, “New York”
Connecticut College
Prize Name: Charles B. Palmer Poetry Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: Connecticut College
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cooper Union
Prize Name: Elizabeth Kray Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Cooper Union
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cornell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Clyde & Jewell Bothwell Tull
Founded: 1990
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2024 Prizewinner: Varun Ramrakhiani, “Why I Love Scheherazade”
Cornell University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Litowitz Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Creighton University
Prize Name: Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Amanda La O Cartaya, “No Translation”
Dartmouth College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Dartmouth College
2024 Prizewinner: Maeve A. Kenney, “The Small Things”
Davidson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Elizabeth Wade
2024 Prizewinner: Isabel Smith, “daisy”
University of Delaware
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Vincent Olivieri, “I’ve folded multiple successful fortune tellers out of the napkins while we’ve been sitting here so I’m pretty sure we’re onto something”
University of Denver
Prize Name: Edward M. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Dickinson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Dickinson College
2024 Prizewinner: Lily Bibro, “1 Gillot Road”
Drew University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Susan Vartanian Barba
2024 Prizewinner: SHAY, “Palestine (Apocalypse)”
Duke University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Biddle Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Nima Babajani-Feremi, “Dreams to Persepolis”
Elizabethtown College
Prize Name: The Raymond and Mausolene Stouffer Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Emerson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Emerson College
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Jennah Figueroa (graduate), “Ripening,” and Annalisa Hansford (undergraduate), “Abecedarian for My Future Lover”
Emory University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The Friends of Creative Writing
2024 Prizewinner: Isabel Cuellar Ferreira, “As it turns out he wasn't even buried under the pine tree”
Florida International University
Prize Name: Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. John Bond
2024 Prizewinner: Ana María Caballero, “Milk"
Florida State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: John MacKay Shaw Award
Donor: Florida State University
2024 Prizewinner: Victoria D'Amico, "How to Make a Birthday Cake"
Florida State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Donor: Florida State University
2024 Prizewinner: Olivia Sokolowski, "Tourist Bracelet,"
Fordham University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Fordham University
2024 Prizewinner: Prettystar Lopez, “[SOMEWHERE OFF THE CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY]”
Franklin and Marshall College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. C. Hunter Boll
2024 Prizewinner: Sarah Nicell, “Eucharist: Digesting Men”
George Mason University
Prize Name: The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Judith V. Lelchook
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
George Washington University
Prize Name: A.E. Claeyssens Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: George Washington University
2024 Prizewinner: Aurea Day, “Confessional”
Georgetown University
Prize Name: Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Clayton Kincade, “A Sonnet to my Scottish Forefathers”
Georgia College
Prize Name: Frankye Davis Mayes Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Georgia State University
Prize Name: The Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2018
Donor: Dr. Katherine Kincer
2024 Prizewinner: Chris Ketchum, “Horseshoe Crab”
Gettysburg College
Prize Name: Marion Zulauf Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Sander Zulauf
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Grinnell College
Prize Name: Lorabel Richardson/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2024 Prizewinner: Isaiah Schlimm, “Nixon's Imperial Seals”
Hamilton College
Prize Name: The Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Poetry Prize
Founded: 1962
Donor: Hamilton College
2024 Prizewinner: Gabriela De Mendonca Gomes, “Lingua Dupla”
Harrisburg Area Community College
Prize Name: Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Hartwick College
Prize Name: Anna Sonder Prize
Founder: 1979
Donor: Dr. Otto Sonder
2024 Prizewinner: Sofia Escobar, “Sky Scorpion”
Harvard University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Harvard University
2024 Prizewinner: Leila Jackson, “Exit Wound”
Haverford College
Prize Name: James C. Ransom Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Jason Fritz and James Haglund
2024 Prizewinner: Maia Schwallie, “Raspberry Juice”
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Sierra Choi, “refrain”
Hofstra University
Prize Name: Nancy P. Schnader Poetry Award
Founded: 1974
Donor: Hofstra University
2024 Prizewinner: Kogen Serrano, “Radio Glenside”
University of Houston
Prize Name: Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. Karl Kilian
2024 Prizewinner: Kelan Nee, “Cathedral”
Hollins University
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1971
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2024 Prizewinner: Rebecca Edgren, “Georgia O’Keeffe, Painting through Pelvis Bone III”
College of the Holy Cross
Prize Name: Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Founded: 1992
Donor: Dominick J. Lepore
2024 Prizewinner: Lilly Baumfeld, “Stick Season Sestina”
Hope College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Hope College
2024 Prizewinner: AnnaLeah Lacoss, “(keeping out the coyotes)”
Hunter College
Prize Name: Catalina Páez and Seumas MacManus Award
Founded: 1987
Donor: Miss Patricia MacManus, Mrs. Mariquita M. Mullan
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Seth Amos, "A Smile for Frances," and Raki Jordan, "Fatherless Home"
University of Idaho
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Karen Trujillo and Don Burnett
2024 Prizewinner: Miriam Akervall, “Mormor's Interview: 1998”
Illinois College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Deborah Klang Smith
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Illinois Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Arthur William Hinners and Louise Hinners Sipfle Poetry Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Friends and Family of Louise Hinners Sipfle
2024 Prizewinner: Farah Bassyouni, “رحم // mercy”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prize Name: Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Founded: 1966
Donor: Mrs. Robert D. Wood
2024 Prizewinner: Chloe Hensler, “A Tuesday During March”
Indiana University Bloomington
Prize Name: The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2024 Prizewinner: Teja Sudhakar, “TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW / ABOUT DISMEMBERMENT”
Indiana State University
Prize Name: The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1996
Donor: Dr. Elaine L. Kleiner
2024 Prizewinner: Basia Bryan, “Cleaning Out the Closet of a Dead Relative”
Institute of American Indian Arts
Prize Name: The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: James Harder
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Victoria Sanchez, “The Accountant"
Johns Hopkins University
Prize Name: The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Mr. Thomas Newton Bolling
2024 Prizewinner: Eben Woo, ”Trips to H-Mart”
Kenyon College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Kenyon College
2024 Prizewinner: Marilyn Gates, “World”
Keystone College
Prize Name: Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Lafayette College
Prize Name: Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Lewis and Clark College
Prize Name: Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Lewis and Clark College
2024 Prizewinner: Ashly N. Flores, “reciting Ginsberg in the shower”
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Prize Name: John and Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Founded: 1967
Donor: Ms. Jeanne Marie Scott
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Loyola University Maryland
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Loyola University Maryland
2024 Prizewinner: Taylor Moyer, “What There Might Be To Know”
Loyola University of Chicago
Prize Name: Dr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 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
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Macalester College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Macalester College
2024 Prizewinner: Miriam Ruiz, “Bull-Headed”
Marietta College
Prize Name: The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laura Baudo Sillerman
2024 Prizewinner: Olivia Lemasters, “swimming with serial killers”
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. Robert W. Newcomb
2024 Prizewinner: January Santoso, "Manic Pixie Dream Sestina"
University of Mary Washington
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2024 Prizewinner: Emily Bailey, “Why Wonder, Why Wander?”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prize Name: Joseph Langland Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2024 Prizewinner: Suzanne Bagia, “It Is the Women Who Cry”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: A.H. Salazar, “God's Work”
University of Memphis
Prize Name: The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Founded: 2002
Donor: Deborah L. Talbot
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Messiah University
Prize Name: Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: Evelyn Kelly, “We in Our Worship”
Miami-Dade College
Prize Name: Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Founded: 1973
Donor: Kathleen Welton
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Miami University
Prize Name: Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Max Kaufman (undergraduate), “The Box,” and Matt Farley (graduate), “Two Cardinals”
University of Miami
Prize Name: Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
Founded: 1993
Donor: University of Miami
2024 Prizewinner: Sankara Olama-Yai, “Erasure of Rape Apology Letters from my former love”
Millersville University
Prize Name: Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: Reagan Gorham, “I went to college in Virginia for a year”
University of Michigan
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Giovanni Smith (undergraduate), “out of body day 1,” and Lailah Fritz (graduate), “Dawn”
University of Minnesota
Prize Name: James Wright Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: University of Minnesota
2024 Prizewinner: Isabel Zacharias, “the singing season”
Mississippi State University
Prize Name: Joy Taylor Rieves Poetry Prize
Founded: 2021
Donor: Mississippi State University
2024 Prizewinner: Haylee Morman, “Mother Land”
University of Missouri at Columbia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: University of Missouri
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Montana
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: University of Montana
2024 Prizewinner: Trinity Herr, “beaches. why I don’t care for them”
Mount Holyoke College
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1960
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2024 Prizewinner: Summer LoPriore, “Mummy”
Muskingum University
Prize Name: Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Founded: 1993
Donor: Muskingum University
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Naropa University
Prize Name: The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Friends of Margaret Randall
2024 Prizewinner: Sambhavi Jayashree Ashok, “I'm ready now”
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Prize Name: Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gaffney
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Nebraska, Omaha (graduate)
Prize Name: Helen W. Kenefick Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. John C. Kenefick
2024 Prizewinner: Ashley DeVrieze, “Seasons”
New Jersey City University
Prize Name: The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: New Jersey City University
2024 Prizewinner: Gianna Valdez, “44°14'32.0"N 68°17'57.7"W”
University of New Orleans
Prize Name: Andrea Saunders Gereighty/Academy of American Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Ms. Andrea S. Gereighty
2024 Prizewinner: Lin Flores, “Tio's Eulogy”
New Mexico State University
Prize Name: Ruth Scott Poetry Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Judith N. Scott
2024 Prizewinner: Camdyn Bass, “Put Down Your Weapons”
New York University
Prize Name: Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: The Arkin Family
2024 Prizewinner: Corey Baron, “All the Hollow Parts of Us”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prize Name: The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: Mrs. Ann W. Burrus
2024 Prizewinner: Blaine Purcell, “While I'm tryna dance in Goodfellows”
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Prize Name: Noel Callow Poetry Award
Founded: 1963
Donor: Anonymous
2024 Prizewinner: James Daniels, “We Are All Starved for Touch”
North Carolina State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: North Carolina State University
2024 Prizewinner: Phi Chu, “Funeral”
University of North Dakota
Prize Name: The Thomas McGrath Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of North Dakota
2024 Prizewinner: Veronika Linstrom , “어 리 다”
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
2024 Prizewinner: Matthew Breit, "Someday I'll Love Raphael Arevalo"
University of North Texas
Prize Name: Voertman/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: University of North Texas
2024 Prizewinner: Meg McManama, “Elegy to My Mother's Breasts”
Northwestern University
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2024 Prizewinner: Ilana Hutzler, "After October 7”
University of Notre Dame
Prize Name: The Billy Maich Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Jessica Maich
2024 Prizewinner: Isabel Boutiette, “Figure 1”
Ohio State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets/Arthur Rense Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Ms. Paige Rense
2024 Prizewinner: Misha Ponnuraju, “Letter to 外公 (or, Wàigōng, or My Mother’s Father)”
Oklahoma State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1978
Donor: Oklahoma State University
2024 Prizewinner: Jerilynn Aquino, “Let Me Thank Taíno Ancestors and Say They Were Right”
Old Dominion University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Helena Edge (graduate), "Grave," and Madi Dill (undergraduate), “Hangover Birds”
Oregon State University
Prize Name: Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Oregon State University
2024 Prizewinner: Flora Snowden, “You Could Almost Call This a Confession but I’m Too Tired To Offer Up Any Shame”
Pace University
Prize Name: David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: The Promise of Learnings Inc.
2024 Prizewinner: Emily Shafer, “swing time”
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Prize Name: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: Caitlyn Henzie, “Remembrance”
Pennsylvania State University
Prize Name: Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mrs. Pearl Steinberg
2024 Prizewinner: Aliyah Rios, “Evidence of our Existence”
University of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: William Carlos Williams Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: University of Pennsylvania
2024 Prizewinner: Christos Kalli, “Short History of O”
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
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Pittsburgh
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Lila Bonow (graduate), “Love Poem,” and Trish Le (undergraduate), “All I want for Christmas is my pink T-Mobile flip phone back”
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Prize Name: The Colleen M. Brown Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2012
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: Fernando Disla, “currents”
Portland State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: The Portland State University Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Aspen Hansen, “Brokedown Palace”
Pratt Institute
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1992
Donor: Pratt Institute
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Princeton University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Drs. William F. and Jerene Hewitt
2024 Prizewinner: Ivy Chen, “July in Xi'an”
Purdue University
Prize Name: The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas H. Scholl
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Randolph College
Prize Name: Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Mia S. Willis (graduate), “unbridled.,” and Savannah Gale (undergraduate), “Rest”
University of Redlands
Prize Name: Jean Burden Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Ms. Virginia Everett Smith
2024 Prizewinner: Katie Grierson, “Circles”
Reed College
Prize Name: The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Reed College
2024 Prizewinner: Estella Burque, “From the Marsh”
University of Richmond
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2024 Prizewinner: Mackenzie Proukou, “Confession”
Rice University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Joyce Pounds Hardy
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Rochester
Prize Name: Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Rochester
2024 Prizewinner: Alayna Leestma, “Utopian Prelude and Dystopian Fugue”
Rockford University
Prize Name: Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Rockford University
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Rollins College
Prize Name: Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Family and Friends of Arden Goettling
2024 Prizewinners: No prize awarded
Rutgers University
Prize Name: Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2024 Prizewinner: Veeda Khan, “Madonna on the Mechanical Bull”
St. John’s University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas McInerney
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
St. Lawrence University
Prize Name: James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1975
Donor: St. Lawrence University
2024 Prizewinner: jack gaulter, “how to get worse”
Saint Mary’s College of California
Prize Name: Russell and Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sam Houston State University
Prize Name: The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Ms. Melissa Morphew
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
San Francisco State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donors: Friends and Family of Piri Thomas
2024 Prizewinner: Jess Carranza Montoya, “No pensaba qué iba llegar este día”
San Francisco State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1996
Donors: The New Hope Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of San Francisco
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: University of San Francisco
2024 Prizewinner: Audrey Walker, “Untitled Pantoum"
San Jose State University
Prize Name: Virginia de Araujo Prize
Founded: 1981
Donor: Virginia de Araujo Trust
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Santa Clara University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Tamara Verga Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Victoria Verga Logan and Frank Verga, Jr.
2024 Prizewinner: Mei Backof, “Flower Mother, Fever Daughter”
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2024 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
2024 Prizewinner: Hannah Butcher, “Shana Rishona”
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College
Prize Name: Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Mr. Peter Cooley
2024 Prizewinner: Sophia Mae Hiatt, “Lessons in Vampirism”
Shippensburg University
Prize Name: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
2024 Prizewinner: Shaley Spivey, ”A Sonnet on Lesbian Sex and the Medieval Warrior”
Skidmore College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Skidmore College
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Smith College
Prize Name: Anne Bradstreet Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Smith College
2024 Prizewinner: Helen Marino, “Self Portrait, 1988”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Rodney Jones
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: Carolyn Forman Moe
2024 Prizewinner: Brock William Storey, “If it is not enough to say: My best friend is dead. I miss him”
Spelman College
Prize Name: Edith A. Hambie Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Friends and Family of Edith Hambie
2024 Prizewinner: Renée Anderson, “From Carlo There Came”
Spring Hill College
Prize Name: Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Abigail Davis, “Skin”
Stetson University
Prize Name: The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. Phillip Blumberg
2024 Prizewinners: Hosanna Rae, “i”
SUNY Albany
Prize Name: Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: The Liston Family
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Binghamton
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: SUNY Binghamton
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Derek Ellis (graduate), “Rehearsing the Death of My Father,” and Grigory Stanskiy (undergraduate), “Modernity”
SUNY Buffalo (graduate)
Prize Name: Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Mr. Dan Liberthson
2024 Prizewinner: a.m.d., “the gravesite on center road”
SUNY Buffalo (undergraduate)
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: SUNY Buffalo
2024 Prizewinner: Claire L. McDonough, “My Friend, the Crow”
SUNY Farmingdale
Prize Name: Raynor Wallace Poetry Award
Founded: 1988
Donor: SUNY Farmingdale
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Oswego
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. John W. Mincher, Jr.
2024 Prizewinner: K.J. Loughran, “Windows”
Swarthmore College
Prize Name: Nathalie F. Anderson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2021
Donor: Alumni of Swarthmore College
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Foster Hudson (graduate), “Car With One Headlight,” and Ivy Hoffman (undergraduate), “Grendel's Mother”
Sweet Briar College
Prize Name: The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2024 Prizewinner: Jess Munley, “The New Boyfriend”
Temple University
Prize Name: Albert J. Caplan Prize
Founded: 1985
Donor: Mr. Albert J. Caplan
2024 Prizewinner: M. Marti, “borscht, after Berrigan”
University of Texas at Austin
Prize Name: Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Andrew Julius Gutow Memorial Fund
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Trinity College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Trinity College
2024 Prizewinner: Sadie Zeiner-Morrish, “The Octopus”
Tufts University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Tufts University
2024 Prizewinner: Zacchai (Sage) Singer, “Monterey”
Tulane University
Prize Name: Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mr. Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
2024 Prizewinner: Sydney Soganich, “On Queerness”
United States Naval Academy
Prize Name: Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Mrs. A. Stuart Pitt
2024 Prizewinner: Madeline Torrez, “scientific inquiries from my kitchen window”
University of Utah
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: University of Utah
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Valdosta State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Mr. Edward Davin Vickers
2024 Prizewinner: Rachel Larson, “Cesar Ceballos's 'Ocean Rising'”
Valparaiso University
Prize Name: Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Nancy and Michael Becker
2024 Prizewinner: Emily Fletcher, “Hiraeth”
Vanderbilt University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Vanderbilt University
2024 Prizewinner: Sydney Mayes, “the walker system”
Vassar College
Prize Name: Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Mr. Albert H. Gordon
2024 Prizewinner: Nandini Likki, “Tumblr Cento”
University of Virginia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Henry Hoyns Bequest, Charles Wright
2024 Prizewinner: Kaitlyn Airy, “I once lived in a three-story mansion on 17th street”
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prize Name: Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Nan Byrne
2024 Prizewinner: Sarp Armağan Demiral, “Human Landscapes from my Datça”
Virginia Tech
Prize name: Virginia Tech / Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2024 Prizewinner: Emelia Kamadulski, “[this film is a montage of bears eating]”
Wake Forest University
Prize name: The Edwin G. Wilson Prize/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2022
Donor: Wake Forest University
2024 Prizewinner: Jasmine Marshall, ”Portals”
Washington College
Prize Name: The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Dr. and Mrs. Jude Pfister
2024 Prizewinner: Carly Townsend, “It's my birthday and I was gifted a life-size plastic skeleton"
Washington and Lee University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Anonymous
2024 Prizewinner: Watson Deacon, “Theodicy”
Washington University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Washington University
2024 Co-Prizewinners: Ameen Animashaun (graduate), “Song,” and Katie Lee (undergraduate), “My Cousin Jasmine Hates Me”
University of Washington
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Sara Cline, “Release of Liability”
Wayne State University
Prize Name: John Clare Award in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Nancy and Michael Becker
2024 Prizewinner: Chuck McKeever, “Clark Park, Spring”
Wellesley College
Prize Name: Nevin Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The Family of Betty Nevin Marshall and Robert Nevin
2024 Prizewinner: Izzy Toy Rettke, “Ghosts of Cartilage”
Wells College
Prize Name: Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2024 Prizewinner: Abigail Colvin, “Graveyard Shifts”
Wesleyan College
Prize Name: George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz
2024 Prizewinner: Ashanti Jacobs, “Whispering Cicadas”
Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Kate Bernheimer
2024 Prizewinner: Gray Sansom-Chiason, "Tribute"
Westminster College
Prize Name: Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: Westminster College
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of William and Mary
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
2024 Prizewinner: Trung Phi, “Ông's Hammock”
Williams College
Prize Name: Bullock Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Academy of American Poets
2024 Prizewinner: Yeldana Talgatkyzy, “First Bull of the Spanish Enlightenment”
Wilson College
Prize Name: The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: Madeline Neway, “Mother None, III”
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Prize Name: George B. Hill Poetry Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Kevin P. Bjerregaard
2024 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of Wooster
Prize Name: Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Founded: 1983
Donor: Ms. Susan Donnell
2024 Prizewinner: Gabriel Z. McCreath, “Vision of St. Augustine (Ars Poetica)”
Yale University
Prize Name: Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2024 Prizewinner: Jaye Chen , “altars for hetairai”
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Yonsei University
2024 Prizewinner: Yejun Chun, “Mona Lisa Ode”
York College of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: Mary Jane’s Diamond Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2024 Prizewinner: Lee Krauss, “Plath Confessional”