Agnes Scott College
Prize Name: Janef Newman Preston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Agnes Scott College
2025 Prizewinner: Olivia Rosario, “Earlier Hauntings”
University of Alabama
Prize Name: Hill-Kohn Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: University of Alabama
2025 Prizewinner: Lauren Chumbley, “Dear Stella”
Amherst College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: Trustees of Amherst College
2025 Prizewinner: Clara Chiu, “Impact”
Aquinas College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mrs. Linda Nemec Foster
2025 Prizewinner: Jenna Hoinke, “This Poem Is About Endometriosis”
Arizona State University
Prize Name: Katharine C. Turner Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Katharine C. Turner
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arizona
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Arizona
2025 Prizewinner: Rose Paulson, “The Rules”
University of Arkansas
Prize Name: C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Geffrey Davis
2025 Prizewinner: Bria Winfree, “Fig Leaves”
Auburn University
Prize Name: Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2025 Prizewinner: Ashby Hendrickson, “After The Hurricane”
Augsburg University
Prize Name: John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mrs. Jeanette Mitchell
2025 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
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Baylor University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Beall Poetry Festival
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Beloit College
Prize Name: Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Ms. Marion Stocking
2025 Prizewinner: Aurora Clark Page, “Not My Backyard”
Bennington College
Prize Name: The Green Prize for Poetry
Founded: 2006
Donor: Kelly Green and Forrest MacGregor
2025 Prizewinner: Blu Mehari, “Catastrophe Theory”
Bergen Community College
Prize Name: The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Steven W. Chung
2025 Prizewinner: Yerin Jeong, “Sway”
Boston University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Boston University Creative Writing Program
2025 Prizewinner: Maisie Williams, “Cure”
Bowdoin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mr. Jack Miller
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Ai Lee Woods, “Eurydice Looks Back,” and Isabella Jingyuan Huang, “Hitchhiking in the Snow”
Bradley University
Prize Name: The Kevin Stein Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Kevin Stein
2025 Prizewinner: John M Tangel, “Snowy Days at Winter's End”
Brandeis University
Prize Name: The Ramón Feliciano Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Mariana Mcdonald
2025 Prizewinner: Henry Wicks, “self-exposure”
Brigham Young University
Prize Name: Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Ethel Lowry Handley
2025 Prizewinner: Kate Romney Johnson, “Fish”
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Prize Name: Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Burton Goldberg
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Brown University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
2025 Prizewinner: Lindsey Pannor, “Drove”
Bryn Mawr College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Founded: 1957
Donor: Mrs. Peter McCormick
2025 Prizewinner: Clara Vy, “The Touch”
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: The Friends of Larry Levis
2025 Prizewinner: Dawn Parker, “Arachnophobia”
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Prize Name: Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: The Friends of Ernesto Trejo
2025 Prizewinner: Taylor Seals, “reMothering”
California State University, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: California State University, Los Angeles
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
California State University, Northridge
Prize Name: George Dillon Memorial Award
Founded: 1968
Donor: California State University, Northridge
2025 Prizewinner: Hedia Anvar, “A Soft Collapse”
University of California, Berkeley
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of California, Davis
Prize Name: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Prof. Celeste Turner Wright
2025 Prizewinner: Aidan Carr, “Buzzards Bay, August 2010”
University of California, Irvine
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: Mr. Walter J. Thomson
2025 Prizewinner: Jacob Deason, “Suggestion of Disappointment”
University of California, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Ms. Joan LaBombard
2025 Prizewinner: Alex Bravo, “Posing for a crisis”
California Polytechnic State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: California Polytechnic State University
2025 Prizewinner: Zora Sowinska, “A Visit to Lisamu”
Calvin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Calvin College
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Carnegie Mellon University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1977
Donor: Carnegie Mellon University
2025 Prizewinner: Josephine Kim, “What Remains”
Central Michigan University
Prize Name: The Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Phillip Sterling
2025 Prizewinner: Cailey Calhoun, “After Living out of the Car for Three Days on Vacation”
Central Pennsylvania College
Prize Name: Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Centre College
Prize Name: The Cantrell Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Phillip Sterling
2025 Prizewinner: ricky o'neill, “Snow Geese in February”
Chatham University
Prize Name: The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laurie and Henry Reich
2025 Prizewinner: David Brady, “Warp and Weft”
University of Cincinnati
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Erin Noehre (graduate), “to temper the pomegranate red inside us,” and Lili Alimohammadi (undergraduate), “Triptych in the Shapes of My Name”
The City College of San Francisco
Prize Name: The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Mrs. Felicia Farr Lemmon
2025 Prizewinner: Lucía Reynoso, “spreading brambles”
Cleveland State University
Prize Name: Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Cleveland State University
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Colorado State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Colorado State University Faculty and Administration
2025 Prizewinner: Conrad Schaefer, “Arboretum”
Columbia College Chicago
Prize Name: Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Meghan Olivia Arenz, “Birdwatching”
Columbia University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Anonymous
2025 Prizewinner: Grace Q. Song, “Laundry”
Connecticut College
Prize Name: Charles B. Palmer Poetry Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: Connecticut College
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cooper Union
Prize Name: Elizabeth Kray Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Cooper Union
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cornell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Clyde & Jewell Bothwell Tull
Founded: 1990
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2025 Prizewinner: Rhye Nelson, “Traveler's Guide to Stargazing”
Cornell University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Litowitz Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Creighton University
Prize Name: Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Lamakū, “Kūlua, or Taro”
Dartmouth College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Dartmouth College
2025 Prizewinner: Lauren Mills, “Affirmations for My Twenty-First Year”
Davidson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2019
Donor: Elizabeth Wade
2025 Prizewinner: Katie Forrestor, “Seeing Her Dress”
University of Delaware
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Riel Saylor, “Disappearing Somewhere Along I-95, On the Road From Delaware to Alabama”
University of Denver
Prize Name: Edward M. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Dickinson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Dickinson College
2025 Prizewinner: Vanessa Abraham, “Ultrasound: My Body in the Yellow Breeches Creek”
Drew University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Susan Vartanian Barba
2025 Prizewinner: Murphy Fonseca, “Answering a Letter from the Past”
Duke University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Biddle Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Tyler King, “Double Theory of the Moon”
Elizabethtown College
Prize Name: The Raymond and Mausolene Stouffer Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Emerson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Emerson College
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Aubrie Dickson (graduate), “Thirty Acres,” and Marin Madden (undergraduate), “burials”
Emory University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The Friends of Creative Writing
2025 Prizewinner: Francis Ittenbach, “In Dreams”
Florida International University
Prize Name: Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. John Bond
2025 Prizewinner: Natalia Martinez, “The Other Dead and Splintered Things”
Florida State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: John MacKay Shaw Award
Donor: Florida State University
2025 Prizewinner: Luciana Callegari, “Poem for Selena, 1997”
Florida State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Donor: Florida State University
2025 Prizewinner: Qiang Meng, “Meditation in a College Composition Classroom”
Fordham University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Fordham University
2025 Prizewinner: Adithi Vimalanathan, “ghazal (my body)”
Franklin and Marshall College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. C. Hunter Boll
2025 Prizewinner: Sara Marija Smith, “The Great Insect Exodus”
George Mason University
Prize Name: The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Judith V. Lelchook
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
George Washington University
Prize Name: A.E. Claeyssens Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: George Washington University
2025 Prizewinner: Claire Lee, “O Laurentia!”
Georgetown University
Prize Name: Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Evelyn Blanchette, “They Tore our House Down With The Lights On”
Georgia College
Prize Name: Frankye Davis Mayes Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Christina Keen Faber (graduate), “On a Visit from God During Sleep Paralysis,” and José Genao (undergraduate), “My Brother, the Sky”
Georgia State University
Prize Name: The Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2018
Donor: Dr. Katherine Kincer
2025 Prizewinner: Kiyanna Hill, “Dream Poem in Which We Never Eat at the Table”
Gettysburg College
Prize Name: Marion Zulauf Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Sander Zulauf
2025 Prizewinner: Amber Bailey, “Ghost Town”
Grinnell College
Prize Name: Lorabel Richardson/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2025 Prizewinner: Renz Iurino, “Natty Light”
Hamilton College
Prize Name: The Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Poetry Prize
Founded: 1962
Donor: Hamilton College
2025 Prizewinner: Dylan Buckser-Schulz, “Self-Help Picture Book”
Harrisburg Area Community College
Prize Name: Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Hartwick College
Prize Name: Anna Sonder Prize
Founder: 1979
Donor: Dr. Otto Sonder
2025 Prizewinner: Meer Singh, “Regurgitated Life”
Harvard University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Harvard University
2025 Prizewinner: McGowin Grinstead, “Devotions”
Haverford College
Prize Name: James C. Ransom Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Jason Fritz and James Haglund
2025 Prizewinner: Carmen R Miller, “some thoughts on snow in a high mountain desert at midnight”
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Kalilinoe Detwiler, “Live Again”
Hofstra University
Prize Name: Nancy P. Schnader Poetry Award
Founded: 1974
Donor: Hofstra University
2025 Prizewinner: A.P., “Distraction”
Hollins University
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1971
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2025 Prizewinner: Kimberly Fetherson, “Relearning”
College of the Holy Cross
Prize Name: Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Founded: 1992
Donor: Dominick J. Lepore
2025 Prizewinner: Gwyneth Morrissey, “Her House was on fire”
Hope College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Hope College
2025 Prizewinner: AnnaLeah Lacoss, “God as a vending machine”
University of Houston
Prize Name: Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. Karl Kilian
2025 Prizewinner: Bo Hee Moon, “Letters to Omma Reunion”
Howard University
Prize Name: The Reuben Jackson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2024
Donor: Mariana Mcdonald
2025 Prizewinner: Marcus Jamison, "Ossature"
Hunter College
Prize Name: Catalina Páez and Seumas MacManus Award
Founded: 1987
Donor: Miss Patricia MacManus, Mrs. Mariquita M. Mullan
2025 Prizewinner: Maria Cangro, “Murk”
University of Idaho
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Karen Trujillo and Don Burnett
2025 Prizewinner: Spencer Robert Young, “The boy I had been, the boy I had wanted, and the boy I lost somewhere along the way”
Illinois College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Deborah Klang Smith
2025 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
2025 Prizewinner: Abraham Bishop, “The Night Gallery”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prize Name: Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Founded: 1966
Donor: Mrs. Robert D. Wood
2025 Prizewinner: Lama Ghrayeb, “Romantic Inheritance”
Indiana University Bloomington
Prize Name: The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2025 Prizewinner: William D. Landau, “Fairy Fruit”
Indiana State University
Prize Name: The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1996
Donor: Dr. Elaine L. Kleiner
2025 Prizewinner: Sarah Lee, “Flyover Country”
Institute of American Indian Arts
Prize Name: The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: James Harder
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Car Simione, “Cloud Watching”
Johns Hopkins University
Prize Name: The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Mr. Thomas Newton Bolling
2025 Prizewinner: Hannah Kosak, “Triptych for Candlemas”
Kenyon College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Kenyon College
2025 Prizewinner: Nicole Yun Wang, “мягкий знак”
Keystone College
Prize Name: Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2025 Prizewinner: Sierra Sczesniak, “Funeral Home”
Lafayette College
Prize Name: Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2025 Prizewinner: Urvi Thakker, “Love Letter to Bandra”
Lewis and Clark College
Prize Name: Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Lewis and Clark College
2025 Prizewinner: Andrew Luis Hurtado-Ramirez, “A Guide to Childrearing”
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Prize Name: John and Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Founded: 1967
Donor: Ms. Jeanne Marie Scott
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Loyola University Maryland
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Loyola University Maryland
2025 Prizewinner: Daniel Gaughan, “Daytrip”
Loyola University of Chicago
Prize Name: Dr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 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
2025 Prizewinner: Mena Sutphin, “Twilight's Teeth”
Macalester College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Macalester College
2025 Prizewinner: Katherine Norquist, “Playing Horse”
Marietta College
Prize Name: The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laura Baudo Sillerman
2025 Prizewinner: Quayle McKay, “banana bread: the life i've always wanted”
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. Robert W. Newcomb
2025 Prizewinner: S. Lieto, “The Used & Rare Bookstore”
University of Mary Washington
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2025 Prizewinner: Aaliyah Anderson, “Inside, a Witness”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prize Name: Joseph Langland Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2025 Prizewinner: Hunter Larson, “What the lyric means”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Abbie McCabe, “Wake (April)”
University of Memphis
Prize Name: The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Founded: 2002
Donor: Deborah L. Talbot
2025 Prizewinner: Sabrina Spence, “Grief Diagnosis”
Messiah University
Prize Name: Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: Becca Nicolson, “River”
Miami-Dade College
Prize Name: Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Founded: 1973
Donor: Kathleen Welton
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Miami University
Prize Name: Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Jordyn Damato (graduate), “[there are a lot of poems i have yet to write—][—there are a lot of things i have yet to admit],” and Lucille Enneking (undergraduate), “Kitchen Sink Baptism”
University of Miami
Prize Name: Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
Founded: 1993
Donor: University of Miami
2025 Prizewinner: Monica Joy Claesson, “Robinette Farms”
Millersville University
Prize Name: Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: Ryan D. Webb, “Desert Bloom”
University of Michigan
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Rebecca Hawkes (graduate), “Shining Cuckoo,” and Ruby Josephine Lewis (undergraduate), “In the Lamplight”
University of Minnesota
Prize Name: James Wright Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: University of Minnesota
2025 Prizewinner: Sandra Del Rio Madrigal, “VIRGEN DRAG”
Mississippi State University
Prize Name: Joy Taylor Rieves Poetry Prize
Founded: 2021
Donor: Mississippi State University
2025 Prizewinner: Jo Aguilar, “Resume”
University of Missouri at Columbia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: University of Missouri
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Montana
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: University of Montana
2025 Prizewinner: Joa Bren Smith, “My Queer Country”
Mount Holyoke College
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1960
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2025 Prizewinner: Josephine Fitz, “Sonnet for Wasting Time”
Muskingum University
Prize Name: Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Founded: 1993
Donor: Muskingum University
2025 Prizewinner: Trey Kirssin, “I Tried”
Naropa University
Prize Name: The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Friends of Margaret Randall
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Prize Name: Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gaffney
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Prize Name: Helen W. Kenefick Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. John C. Kenefick
2025 Prizewinner: Ashley DeVrieze, “Constellations”
New Jersey City University
Prize Name: The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: New Jersey City University
2025 Prizewinner: Gianna Valdez, “Table for two, please”
University of New Orleans
Prize Name: Andrea Saunders Gereighty/Academy of American Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Ms. Andrea S. Gereighty
2025 Prizewinner: Karen Sherk Chio, “That time I exclaimed 'you're so impolite!' when a stranger slapped my behind”
New Mexico State University
Prize Name: Ruth Scott Poetry Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Judith N. Scott
2025 Prizewinner: Madelyn Parker, “Separation”
New York University
Prize Name: Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: The Arkin Family
2025 Prizewinner: Olivia Ebel, “Sunday Dinner”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prize Name: The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: Mrs. Ann W. Burrus
2025 Prizewinner: Boatemaa Agyeman-Mensah, “I Used My Words I Used What Words I Had”
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Prize Name: Noel Callow Poetry Award
Founded: 1963
Donor: Anonymous
2025 Prizewinner: Eliana Franklin, “The Bridge in Summer”
North Carolina State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: North Carolina State University
2025 Prizewinner: Xavier Searle, “Elegy”
University of North Dakota
Prize Name: The Thomas McGrath Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of North Dakota
2025 Prizewinner: Ella C. Weinmann, “Paper Cuts”
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
2025 Prizewinner: El Bentivegna, “Escalante as it Meets Lake Powell”
University of North Texas
Prize Name: Voertman/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: University of North Texas
2025 Prizewinner: Brian Czyzyk, “In Absentia”
Northwestern University
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2025 Prizewinner: Roy Zhu, “Stepping into Virginia Woolf's Room, Briefly, Before Waking”
University of Notre Dame
Prize Name: The Billy Maich Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Jessica Maich
2025 Prizewinner: Daryna Gladun, “Dreams of the Sandbox Angels”
Ohio State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets/Arthur Rense Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Ms. Paige Rense
2025 Prizewinner: Connor Beeman, “cicada elegy”
Oklahoma State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1978
Donor: Oklahoma State University
2025 Prizewinner: Katie McMorris, “We All Want an Argonaut Husband”
Old Dominion University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Helen Peluso (graduate), “Reinaldo,” and Eben Atreyu Bracy (undergraduate), “To Tell You The Truth”
Oregon State University
Prize Name: Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Oregon State University
2025 Prizewinner: Flora Snowden, “My Pumpkin Collapsed on Election Day”
Pace University
Prize Name: David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: The Promise of Learnings Inc.
2025 Prizewinner: Savannah M. Ford, “file edit view insert format tools”
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Prize Name: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: Lauren Ajebon, “How Much for One Palestinian Life?”
Pennsylvania State University
Prize Name: Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mrs. Pearl Steinberg
2025 Prizewinner: Ky McKenna, “Bird Woman”
University of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: William Carlos Williams Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: University of Pennsylvania
2025 Prizewinner: Christos Kalli, “STRETCH MARKS”
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
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Pittsburgh
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2025 Prizewinner: Thomas Riley, “Mondegreen with Backing Vocals”
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Prize Name: The Colleen M. Brown Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2012
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: Charlie Fetsko, “A Sound Like Solitude”
Portland State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: The Portland State University Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: CJ Maruyama, “TO MY WHITE FRIENDS I'M ASIAN & TO MY ASIAN FRIENDS I'M WHITE”
Pratt Institute
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1992
Donor: Pratt Institute
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Princeton University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Drs. William F. and Jerene Hewitt
2025 Prizewinner: Claire Beeli, “L.A. River”
Purdue University
Prize Name: The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas H. Scholl
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Randolph College
Prize Name: Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Vannida S. Kol (graduate), “Where to Find the Buddha,” and Corbin Underwood (undergraduate), “Heus”
University of Redlands
Prize Name: Jean Burden Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Ms. Virginia Everett Smith
2025 Prizewinner: Sadie Forkner, “Prism”
Reed College
Prize Name: The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Reed College
2025 Prizewinner: Annie (Chae Eun) Kim, “Wonderseed”
University of Richmond
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2025 Prizewinner: Ann Sabin, “It's the Damn Hands”
Rice University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Joyce Pounds Hardy
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Rochester
Prize Name: Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Rochester
2025 Prizewinner: Gabriel Plata, “The Center is the Loneliest”
Rockford University
Prize Name: Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Rockford University
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Rollins College
Prize Name: Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Family and Friends of Arden Goettling
2025 Prizewinners: No prize awarded
Rutgers University
Prize Name: Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2025 Prizewinner: Chloe Berwick, “Ars Poetica: Real Poetry”
St. John's University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas McInerney
2025 Prizewinner: Tess Patalano, “Revenge of the Goldfish”
St. Lawrence University
Prize Name: James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1975
Donor: St. Lawrence University
2025 Prizewinner: Ellie Hoyt, “Search Bar”
Saint Mary's College of California
Prize Name: Russell and Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Sam Houston State University
Prize Name: The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Ms. Melissa Morphew
2025 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
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
San Francisco State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1996
Donors: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of San Francisco
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: University of San Francisco
2025 Prizewinner: Cornelius Green, “The Sea that is Eating the Houses”
San Jose State University
Prize Name: Virginia de Araujo Prize
Founded: 1981
Donor: Virginia de Araujo Trust
2025 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.
2025 Prizewinner: Valerie Braylovskiy, “Big Sur”
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Leni Rogers, “Poem For When I Am Startled By My Reflection”
Sarah Lawrence College (graduate)
Prize Name: The John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Joseph McCrindle and Charmaine Ferenczi
2025 Prizewinner: Tenny Liu, “My Bucket List”
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College
Prize Name: Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Mr. Peter Cooley
2025 Prizewinner: Nelly Carbonell Nieves, “Cream of Rice”
Shippensburg University
Prize Name: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
2025 Prizewinner: Kenton Woods, “Message for Stressed Professor from Hick Student”
Skidmore College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Skidmore College
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Smith College
Prize Name: Anne Bradstreet Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Smith College
2025 Prizewinner: Lydia Geering, “Can I Borrow Your Hair Dye?”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Rodney Jones
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: Carolyn Forman Moe
2025 Prizewinner: Brock William Storey, “After the Sermon I Wanted Leprosy”
Spelman College
Prize Name: Edith A. Hambie Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Friends and Family of Edith Hambie
2025 Prizewinner: Oleisia Johnson, “The Weight She Gives Me”
Spring Hill College
Prize Name: Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Alexa Manuel, “Guilt of an Immigrant's Daughter”
Stetson University
Prize Name: The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. Phillip Blumberg
2025 Prizewinners: Rowan Geddes, “abel-bodied”
SUNY Albany
Prize Name: Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: The Liston Family
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Binghamton
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: SUNY Binghamton
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Jenn Powers (graduate), “Heritage,” and Olivia Drury (undergraduate), “Sailor and the Vegas Strip”
SUNY Buffalo (graduate)
Prize Name: Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Mr. Dan Liberthson
2025 Prizewinner: J.D.B. Elm, “Hold, Puuku”
SUNY Buffalo (undergraduate)
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: SUNY Buffalo
2025 Prizewinner: Julianne Neely, “Self-Portrait in a Cell Phone Camera after John Ashbery's Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror”
SUNY Farmingdale
Prize Name: Raynor Wallace Poetry Award
Founded: 1988
Donor: SUNY Farmingdale
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Oswego
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. John W. Mincher, Jr.
2025 Prizewinner: Isaiah A. Bedoar, “7”
Swarthmore College
Prize Name: Nathalie F. Anderson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2021
Donor: Alumni of Swarthmore College
2025 Prizewinner: Tanisha Dunac, “A Soft Place to Land”
Sweet Briar College
Prize Name: The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Temple University
Prize Name: Albert J. Caplan Prize
Founded: 1985
Donor: Mr. Albert J. Caplan
2025 Prizewinner: Zinfandel Perez, “Nemo Won”
University of Texas at Austin
Prize Name: Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Andrew Julius Gutow Memorial Fund
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Trinity College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Trinity College
2025 Prizewinner: Danny Lenois, “Edeltraud Grom”
Tufts University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Tufts University
2025 Prizewinner: Ruby Goodman, “Smoke Break”
Tulane University
Prize Name: Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mr. Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
2025 Prizewinner: Z.Y. Churchhill, “red wolf, stray dog”
United States Naval Academy
Prize Name: Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Mrs. A. Stuart Pitt
2025 Prizewinner: Alex Wentz, “Campus”
University of Utah
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: University of Utah
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Valdosta State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Mr. Edward Davin Vickers
2025 Prizewinner: Carolina Acevedo Gomez, “Sonnet of the Trinity”
Valparaiso University
Prize Name: Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Nancy and Michael Becker
2025 Prizewinner: Makayla Lachelle Scott, “Emotions”
Vanderbilt University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Vanderbilt University
2025 Prizewinner: Kinsale Drake, “Ram's Head, Blue Morning Glory, 1938”
Vassar College
Prize Name: Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Mr. Albert H. Gordon
2025 Prizewinner: Eliza Gilbert, “Lazarella”
University of Virginia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Henry Hoyns Bequest, Charles Wright
2025 Prizewinner: Alexa Luborsky, “I was the wet cloth that kept the phyllo damp.”
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prize Name: Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Nan Byrne
2025 Prizewinner: Julia St. John, “Our Lady of the Parkway”
Virginia Tech
Prize name: Virginia Tech / Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2025 Prizewinner: Riley O'Mearns, “Past Life Regression: Spur”
Wake Forest University
Prize name: The Edwin G. Wilson Prize/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2022
Donor: Wake Forest University
2025 Prizewinner: Iliana Booth, “The Donation”
Washington College
Prize Name: The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Dr. and Mrs. Jude Pfister
2025 Prizewinner: Sophie Kilbride, “Cabin #8”
Washington and Lee University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Anonymous
2025 Prizewinner: Kaia Beddows, “Handlebars”
Washington University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Washington University
2025 Co-Prizewinners: Safa Khatib (graduate), “Elegy,” and Shelby Edison (undergraduate), “Waiting for an Uber after Rosh Hashanah services, maybe this is where I feel closest to God”
University of Washington
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Lillian Morton, “Brother, Brother”
Wayne State University
Prize Name: John Clare Award in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Nancy and Michael Becker
2025 Prizewinner: Wafaa Mustafa, “Colocynthesis”
Wellesley College
Prize Name: Nevin Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The Family of Betty Nevin Marshall and Robert Nevin
2025 Prizewinner: Izzy Toy Rettke, “Love Poem for Vampires”
Wells College
Prize Name: Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Wesleyan College
Prize Name: George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz
2025 Prizewinner: Simone Russell, “I Am That, Too”
Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Kate Bernheimer
2025 Prizewinner: Mariema Tall, “Xol”
Westminster College
Prize Name: Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: Westminster College
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of William and Mary
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
2025 Prizewinner: Salma Amrou, “House”
Williams College
Prize Name: Bullock Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Academy of American Poets
2025 Prizewinner: Varya Kluev, “After A Party”
Wilson College
Prize Name: The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: Ittai Payne, “Love Letter to the Sun”
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Prize Name: George B. Hill Poetry Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Kevin P. Bjerregaard
2025 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
College of Wooster
Prize Name: Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Founded: 1983
Donor: Ms. Susan Donnell
2025 Prizewinner: Gabriel Z. McCreath, “Apophasis”
Yale University
Prize Name: Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2025 Prizewinner: Maisie Bilston, “The Consecration of Westminster Abbey on Holy Innocents” Day, 1065”
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Yonsei University
2025 Prizewinner: RyunGie Hahn, “What the Silence Knew—A triptych in borrowed tongues”
York College of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: Mary Jane's Diamond Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2025 Prizewinner: Marissa Stambaugh, “There's something about silence.”