Agnes Scott College
Prize Name: Janef Preston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Agnes Scott College
2016 Prizewinner: Shakoora Sabree, "Three Spoonfuls of Brown Sugar"
University of Alabama
Prize Name: Hill-Kohn Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: University of Alabama
2016 Prizewinner: Ryan Bollenbach, "BLUE"
Amherst College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: Trustees of Amherst College
2016 Prizewinner: Victoria Luizzi , "Cabo Blanco"
Aquinas College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mrs. Linda Nemec Foster
2016 Prizewinner: Nadija Kadunic, “Tomasica"
Arizona State University
Prize Name: Katherine C. Turner Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Katharine C. Turner
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Arizona
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Arizona
2016 Prizewinner: Taneum Bambrick, "Reservoir (V.)" and Alexandra Comeaux, "The Community Pool"
Auburn University
Prize Name: Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2016 Prizewinner: Emma Hyche, "Pyrite"
Augsburg College
Prize Name: John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mrs. Jeanette Mitchell
2016 Prizewinner: Donte Collins, "what the dead know by heart"
Bard College
Prize Name: The Flow Chart Foundation/Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: David Kermani, The Flow Chart Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Sophie Strand, "First Ode"
Baylor University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Beall Poetry Festival
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Beloit College
Prize Name: Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Ms. Marion Stocking
2016 Prizewinner: Max Brumberg-Kraus Fag Hammadi
Bennington College
Prize Name: The Green Prize for Poetry
Founded: 2006
Donor: Kelly Green & Forrest MacGregor
2016 Prizewinner: Franci Revel Pasture
Bergen Community College
Prize Name: The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Steven W. Chung
2016 Prizewinner: Meaghan Velten Pyro
Boston University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: Boston University Creative Writing Program
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Bowdoin College
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mr. Jack Miller
2016 Prizewinner: June Lei Brooklyn Museum
Bradley University
Prize Name: Sipple Poetry Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Bradley University
2016 Prizewinner: Kaydra Bui "Unsung"
Brandeis University
Prize Name: The Ramon Feliciano Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Marian McDonald
2016 Prizewinner: Arielle Ballard Indigofera
Brigham Young University
Prize Name: Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Ethel Lowry Handley
2016 Prizewinner: Shelli Spotts Blue #1
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Prize Name: Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Burton Goldberg
2016 Prizewinner: Hannah Carl the edge of downtown near the student housing
Brown University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
2016 Prizewinner: Joshua Kurtz "Untitled, 1970"
Bryn Mawr College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Founded: 1957
Donor: Mrs. Peter McCormick
2016 Prizewinner: Natalie Kawam The Pulse
University at Buffalo
Prize Name: The Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded:
Donor:
2016 Prizewinner: Kristina Marie Darling Godspeed & Brian Windschitl metamorphosis
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: The Friends of Larry Levis
2016 Prizewinner: Hannah Riccardi When My Mother Rages
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Prize Name: Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: The Friends of Ernesto Trejo
2016 Prizewinner: Kourtnie McKenzie The Way Her Mother Left
California State University, Los Angeles
Prize Name: Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: California State University, Los Angeles
2016 Prizewinner: Katherine Pyne-Jaeger Prose Poem: after I Do Not Know What a Painting Does and Numbers, Patterns, Movements and Being
California State University, Northridge
Prize Name: George Dillon Memorial Award
Founded: 1968
Donor: California State University, Northridge
2016 Prizewinner: Sophia Apodaca "Coming Out to My
University of California, Berkeley
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: David Hernandez "Vigesimal "
University of California, Davis
Prize Name: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Prof. Celeste Turner Wright
2016 Prizewinner: Lauren Swift pilgrimage
University of California, Irvine
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: Mr. Walter J. Thomson
2016 Prizewinner: Stefan Karlsson Shards of the Nautilus Shell
University of California at Los Angeles
Prize Name: Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Ms. Joan LaBombard
2016 Prizewinner: Dylan Karlsson Fruit for Vacancy
California Polytechnic State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: California Polytechnic State University
2016 Prizewinner: Rebecca Liberatore Night Roulette
Calvin College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Calvin College
2016 Prizewinner: Ericka Buitenhuis In Time
Carnegie Mellon University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1977
Donor: Carnegie Mellon University
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Central Michigan University
Prize Name: Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Phillip Sterling
2016 Prizewinner: Greta Ginter Fat Girls Don't Get Husbands
Central Pennsylvania College
Prize Name: Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Mary Weingartener One of Those Days
Centre College
Prize Name: Paul Cantrell Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Phillip Sterling
2016 Prizewinner: Mariele Fluegeman, “Triptych for the Odd Saint Out”
Chatham College
Prize Name: The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laurie and Henry Reich
2016 Prizewinner: Allyson Donato, “The Lovers of Valdaro”
University of Cincinnati (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Kelly Pieper, “Home”
University of Cincinnati (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Sara Watson, “These Are My Feelings”
The City College of San Francisco
Prize Name: The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Mrs. Felicia Farr Lemmon
2016 Prizewinner: David Handsher, “A Woman Falls Into a Manhole While Texting”
Cleveland State University
Prize Name: Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Cleveland State University
2016 Prizewinner: Bronte Billings, “Carved Bone”
Colorado State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Colorado State University Faculty & Administration
2016 Prizewinner: Kristin George Bagdanov, “Lamb Body”
Columbia College Chicago
Prize Name: Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Matthew DeMarco, “When my friend tells me that an ex-lover headbutted her nose until it busted,"
Columbia University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Anonymous
2016 Prizewinner: Ethan Plaue
Columbia University (graduate)
Prize Name: Bennett Poetry Prize
Founded: 1959
Donor: The New York Times Advertising Department
2016 Prizewinner: Adriana Socoski, “Having To Be Had”
Connecticut College
Prize Name:Charles B. Palmer Poetry Award
Founded: 1979
Donor: Connecticut College
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Cooper Union
Prize Name: Elizabeth Kray Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Cooper Union
2016 Prizewinner: John Angelo Alonzo, “Warm Compress in April”
Cornell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Clyde and Jewell Bothwell Tull
Founded: 1990
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2016 Prizewinner: Maria Catherino, “For the Neighbor at Christmas”
Cornell University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Litowitz Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Creighton University
Prize Name: Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Kristi Walsh, “Daniel”
Dartmouth College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Dartmouth College
2016 Prizewinner: Margaret Lacey Jones, “Playing Liturgy:: terzanelle”
University of Delaware
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Steven Bankert, “26 Cuts”
University of Denver
Prize Name: Edward M. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Dickinson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Dickinson College
2016 Prizewinner: Jane Feldmann, “When you left”
Drew University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Susan Vartanian Barba
2016 Prizewinner: Maximillian Orsini, “Crossing Bourne Bridge”
Duke University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Biddle Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Yea Jee Bae, “3:27 AM”
Elizabethtown College
Prize Name: The Raymond and Mausolene Stouffer Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Emerson College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Emerson College
2016 Prizewinner: Blake N. Campbell, “Bioluminescence”
Emory University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The Friends of Creative Writing
2016 Prizewinner: Jenny Wu, “The Churchyard”
Florida International University
Prize Name: Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. John Bond
2016 Prizewinner: Ashley Jones, “Viewing a KKK Uniform at the Civil Rights Institute”
Florida State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: John McKay Shaw Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Florida State University
2016 Prizewinner: Francisco Marquez, “Caravaggio Remembering Buoneri, His Lover, Upon Looking at ‘David with the Head of Goliath.'"
Florida State University (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1982
Donor: Florida State University
2016 Prizewinner: William Fargason, “Sugar”
Fordham University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Fordham University
2016 Prizewinner: Anna Marie Anastasi, “penpal”
Franklin & Marshall College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. C. Hunter Boll
2016 Prizewinner: Arielle Lipset, “Poppy”
George Mason University
Prize Name: The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Judith V. Lelchook
2016 Prizewinner: Phebe Ciemny, “There is a Staircase in the Mind Composed of No Steps”
George Washington University
Prize Name: A. E. Claeyssens, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: George Washington University
2016 Prizewinner: Sarah Costello, “Visiting la Isla del Encanto”
Georgetown University
Prize Name: Ora Mary Phelam Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Sophia Stid, "Salton Sea”
Georgia Perimeter College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: The Chattahoochee Review
2016 Prizewinner: Grant Taylor, “The Boozers”
Georgia College & State University
Prize Name: Frankye Davis Mayes Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mrs. Frances Mayes
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Gettysburg College
Prize Name: Marion Zulauf Prize
Founded: 1987
Donor: Mr. Sander Zulauf
2016 Prizewinner: Ela Thompson, “From Daphne to Fair Apollo”
Grinnell College
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Lorabel Richardson
Founded: 1994
Donor: Ms. Alice Louise Haug
2016 Prizewinner: Jacob Miller
Hamilton College
Prize Name: Ralph and Doris Hansmann Poetry Prize
Founded: 1962
Donor: Hamilton College
2016 Prizewinner: John Rufo, “Notes on a Hunger Artist”
Harrisburg Area Community College
Prize Name: Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Tucker Leighty-Phillips, “Your Heart is a Parking Meter”
Hartwick College
Prize Name: Anna Sonder Prize
Founder: 1979
Donor: Dr. Otto Sonder
2016 Prizewinner: Malik Charchour, “The Purple Ram”
Harvard University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Harvard University
2016 Prizewinner: Zoe Hitzig, “Pernkopf Atlas”
University of Hawai’i
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1980
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Joseph Han, “For Sewol”
Hofstra University
Prize Name: Nancy P. Schnader Award
Founded: 1974
Donor: Hofstra University
2016 Prizewinners: Justin Colon-Rabinowitz, “Chuíto Molina” and Nick Rizzuti, “Tired as Fog”
University of Houston
Prize Name: Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. Karl Kilian
2016 Prizewinner: Dana Kroos, “How to Understand Acoustics”
Hollins University
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1971
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2016 Prizewinners: William Repass, “Air-Strike:" and Amanda Williams, “What I Need From You”
College of the Holy Cross
Prize Name: Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Founded: 1993
Donor: Mr. Dominick J. Lepore
2016 Prizewinner: Ryan Kingsley, “Ceremony”
Hope College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Hope College
2016 Prizewinner: Allyson Hoffman, “Lingering in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park”
Hunter College
Prize Name: Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Award
Founded: 1987
Donor: Miss Patricia MacManus, Mrs. Mariquita M. Mullan
2016 Prizewinner: Parveen Keynejad, “Grief at Golden Age”
University of Idaho
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Karen Trujillo and Don Burnett
2016 Prizewinner: Max Eberts, “Blue Jay and Sparrow”
Illinois College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Ms. Deborah Klang Smith
2016 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
2016 Prizewinner: Erica Kucharski, “A Perfect Miss”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prize Name: Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Founded: 1966
Donor: Mrs. Robert D. Wood
2016 Prizewinner: Ariel Jones, “For S.”
Indiana University
Prize Name: The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2016 Prizewinner: Kien Lam, “Big Bang Theory”
Indiana State University
Prize Name: The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1996
Donor: Dr. Elaine L. Kleiner
2016 Prizewinner: Elle Bathory, “Noah’s Ark”
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Delaney Nolan, “Crucifer”
Johns Hopkins University
Prize Name: The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Mr. Thomas Newton Bolling
2016 Prizewinner: Helena Chung, “From a Theater”
Kenyon College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Kenyon College
2016 Prizewinner: Taylor Cornelius, “Bill Cody”
Keystone College
Prize Name: Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2016 Prizewinner: Macaulay Glynn
Lafayette College
Prize Name: Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Founded: 1989
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2016 Prizewinner: Christine Calella, “Out, Out, Damn Stone”
Lewis & Clark College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Lewis & Clark College
2016 Prizewinner: Kaiya Gordon, “Self Portrait (So Much Depends)"
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Prize Name: John & Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Founded: 1967
Donor: Ms. Jeanne Marie Scott
2016 Prizewinner: Natasha Vaughn, “At five years old”
Loyola University Maryland
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: Loyola University Maryland
2016 Prizewinner: Samantha Fazekas, “Breathing”
Loyola University of Chicago
Prize Name: Dr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
Macalester College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Macalester College
2016 Prizewinner: Chris Herrmann, “Three Odes to the Deep Atlantic”
Marietta College
Prize Name: The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Founded: 2005
Donor: Laura Baudo Sillerman
2016 Prizewinner: Angela Shrader, “A Lesson in Sewing”
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize Name: Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. Robert W. Newcomb
2016 Prizewinner: Tyler Goldman, “Have You Ever Noticed The Way The Blind Seem To Think With Their Eyes”
University of Mary Washington
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2016 Prizewinner: Nate Levine, “Beginnings”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prize Name: Joseph Langland Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2016 Prizewinner: Ted Powers, “The Past is All Over”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Adam Graaf, “Militaria”
University of Memphis
Prize Name: The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Founded: 2002
Donor: Deborah L. Talbot
2016 Prizewinners: Brittney Duncan, “One Hundred Eight Miles From a Hospital Bed” and Ashley Roach-Freiman, “what you have left”
Messiah College
Prize Name: Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Abigail Koontz, “Taji, Iraq: 2004”
Miami-Dade Community College
Prize Name: Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Founded: 1973
Donor: Miami-Dade Community College
2016 Prizewinner: Sarah Joseph-Alexandre, “alternate realities (didn’t state)"
Miami University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Founded: 2000
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2016 Prizewinner: Quinton Couch, “Beware Havoc Alda”
Miami University (graduate)
Prize Name: Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2001
Donor: Mr. Jeffrey Abrahams
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
University of Miami
Prize Name: Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
Founded: 1993
Donor: University of Miami
2016 Prizewinner: Lisette Alonso, “Postcard From the Corner House”
Millersville University
Prize Name: Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Ashley-Luisa Santangelo, "[FRIDA]"
University of Michigan (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2016 Prizewinner: Ariel Kaplowitz, “Night In Paris”
University of Michigan (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mrs. Sharon A. Galley
2016 Prizewinner: H.R. Webster, “Apiary”
University of Minnesota
Prize Name: James Wright Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: University of Minnesota
2016 Prizewinners: Su Hwang, “An Elegy” and D. Allen, “Great Plains”
University of Missouri at Columbia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1990
Donor: University of Missouri
2016 Prizewinner: Anne Barngrover, “Midwestern Litany”
University of Montana
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: University of Montana
2016 Prizewinner: Allison Linville, “Which Is To Say”
Mount Holyoke College
Prize Name: Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Founded: 1960
Donor: Mr. W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
2016 Prizewinner: Jocelyn Mosman, “Your Name”
Muskingum College
Prize Name: Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Founded: 1993
Donor: Muskingum College
2016 Prizewinner: Dean Granitsas, “Fire”
Naropa University
Prize Name: The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: Friends of Margaret Randall
2016 Prizewinner: Kathleen Langyher, “From Nothing to Nothing”
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Prize Name: Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gaffney
2016 Prizewinner: Ryler Dustin, “The Movement of Fields”
University of Nebraska, MFA
Prize Name: Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. John C. Kenefick
2016 Prizewinner: Michelle Troxclair, “Generation b. 1952-1972”
New Jersey City University
Prize Name: The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2004
Donor: New Jersey City University
2016 Prizewinner: Chloe DiFillipis, “the accident”
University of New Orleans
Prize Name: Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Ms. Andrea S. Gereighty
2016 Prizewinner: Kia Groom, “The Impulse Purchase”
New York University
Prize Name: Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: The Arkin Family
2016 Prizewinner: Mark Sologuren, “time/Tuscany (Marko Paulo)"
University of North Dakota
Prize Name: The Thomas McGrath Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of North Dakota
2016 Prizewinner: Ben Morris
University of North Texas
Prize Name: Paul R. Voertman Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: University of North Texas
2016 Prizewinner: R.M. Haines, “The Instructor”
University of Notre Dame
Prize Name: The Billy Maich Award
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Jessica Maich
2016 Prizewinner: Julia Harris, “A Missing Face”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prize Name: The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1963
Donor: Mrs. Ann W. Burrus
2016 Prizewinner: Charles Perkins, “Dangerous and Frozen Rain”
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Prize Name: Noel Callow Poetry Award
Founded: 1963
Donor: Anonymous
2016 Prizewinner: Clifford Parody, “Four Months After You Gave Me The Goose Down Coat”
North Carolina State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: North Carolina State University
2016 Prizewinner: Leila Chatti, “Ode to Ugly Things”
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
2016 Prizewinner: Sarah Dravec, “If We Are Going to Disappear”
Northwestern University
Prize Name: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2016 Prizewinner: Aozora Brockman, “Butchering”
Northwest Indian College
Prize Name: The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: James Harder
2016 Prizewinner: Vina Brown
Ohio State University
Prize Name: Arthur Rense Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Ms. Paige Rense
2016 Prizewinner: Mikko Harvey, “The Critic Falls in Love”
Oklahoma State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1978
Donor: Oklahoma State University
2016 Prizewinner: Colin Pope
Old Dominion University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2016 Prizewinners: Nathan Whelan, “Codlata Fear Bocht (Or Poor Man Sleeping.” and Emily Duquette, “Odd Sister”
Oregon State University
Prize Name: Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Founded: 1986
Donor: Oregon State University
2016 Prizewinner: Emily Gritzmachcer, ";Ingredients”
Pace University
Prize Name: David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: The Promise of Learnings Inc.
2016 Prizewinner: Ana Velasco, “Careyes”
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Prize Name: Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Emily Kramer, “Hiding Places”
Pennsylvania State University
Prize Name: Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: Mrs. Pearl Steinberg
2016 Prizewinner: Kate Wright, “Illusion”
University of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: William Carlos Williams Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: University of Pennsylvania
2016 Prizewinner: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, “For the Journalists Who Write About Ukraine”
Piedmont College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Barbara Brown Taylor
2016 Prizewinner: Tifanie Thompson, “The Blue”
University of Pittsburgh
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: University of Pittsburgh
2016 Prizewinner: Emily Hopkins, “Antitussive”
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Prize Name: The Colleen M. Brown Prize
Founded: 2012
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Avery Malone, “Break”
Portland State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: The Portland State University Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Alexa Mallarnee, “Summer Tramp”
Pratt Institute
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1992
Donor: Pratt Institute
2016 Prizewinner: Alya Albert, “For Ma”
Princeton University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Drs. William F. and Jerene Hewitt
2016 Prizewinner: Benjamin Goodman, “New John”
Purdue University
Prize Name: The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas H. Scholl
2016 Prizewinner: Emily Skaja, “Dear Ruth”
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
Prize Name: Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Founded: 1963
Donor: Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
2016 Prizewinner: Katy Boyer, “Dream of Wraith’s Daughter”
University of Redlands
Prize Name: Jean Burden Award
Founded: 1984
Donor: Ms. Virginia Everett Smith
2016 Prizewinner: Samson Stilwell, “Duplex”
Reed College
Prize Name: The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1994
Donor: Reed College
2016 Prizewinner: Hannah Lookey, “Get Thee to the Gunnery”
University of Richmond
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2016 Prizewinner: Kevin Hargrave
University of Rochester
Prize Name: Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: University of Rochester
2016 Prizewinner: Theodore Rycroft, “El Paso”
Rockford University
Prize Name: Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Rockford University
2016 Prizewinner: Doug Janicke, “Absence of All Color”
Rollins College
Prize Name: Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Family & Friends of Arden Goettling
2016 Prizewinners: Gil Franqui, “Homonyms” and Caroline Dehart, “Rorschach Test”
Rutgers University
Prize Name: Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2016 Prizewinner: Caitlin Gilvary
St. John’s University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2006
Donor: Thomas McInerney
2016 Prizewinner: Ramya Ramana, “Pop Quiz for a Apologist”
St. Lawrence University
Prize Name: James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Founded: 1975
Donor: St. Lawrence University
2016 Prizewinner: Kelsey Hatch, “Excavations”
Saint Mary’s College of California
Prize Name: Russell & Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Kelly Egan, “Diaspora”
Sam Houston State University
Prize Name: The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Ms. Melissa Morphew
2016 Prizewinner: Kindall Jackson, “For Josie”
San Francisco State University
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1964
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Ryan Nash, “A WAY OUT”
San Francisco State University (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry Prize
Founded: 2009
Donors: Friends and Family of Piri Thomas
2016 Prizewinner: Joshua Gill-Sutton
University of San Francisco
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2009
Donor: University of San Francisco
2016 Prizewinner: Will Randick, “Just As”
San Jose State University
Prize Name: Virginia de Araujo Prize
Founded: 1981
Donor: Virginia de Araujo Trust
2016 Prizewinner: Katherine Reed, “Death of Duckweed”
Santa Clara University
Prize Name: Tamara Verga Poetry Prize
Founded: 1995
Donor: Victoria Verga Logan and Frank Verga, Jr.
2016 Prizewinner: Forrest Nguyen
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Caroline Kenworthy, “To chlorophyll, refineries, coal, furnaces beneath early skyscrapers, fossils”
Sarah Lawrence College (graduate)
Prize Name: The John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in Poetry
Donor: Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: George Sawaya, “Apology to the Blackbird”
Shimer College
Prize Name: Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Founded: 1976
Donor: Mr. Peter Cooley
2016 Prizewinner: August Lysy, “Faith in Us Flounders”
Shippensburg University
Prize Name: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
2016 Prizewinner: Hillary Thomas, “Kitchen Window Lullaby”
Skidmore College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Skidmore College
2016 Prizewinner: Margaret Hass, “After Aeneas”
Smith College
Prize Name: Anne Bradstreet Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Smith College
2016 Prizewinner: Jamie Samdahl
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: Mr. Rodney Jones
2016 Prizewinner: Ashely Mallick, “When the adults go out to smoke my uncle tells stories”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: Carolyn Forman Moe
2016 Prizewinner: Emily Rose Cole, "Premonition”
Spring Hill College
Prize Name: Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: Tiffany Thomas, “Terminal”
Stetson University
Prize Name: The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mr. Phillip Blumberg
2016 Prizewinners: Savannah Kater and Adriana Ugarte, “Haw Creek”
SUNY Albany
Prize Name: Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize
Founded: 1998
Donor: The Liston Family
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Binghamton
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1979
Donor: SUNY Binghamton
2016 Prizewinners: Abby E. Murray (graduate), “How to be Married After Iraq” and Donovan Borger (undergraduate), “Rings”
SUNY Buffalo
Prize Name: The Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1974
Donor: SUNY Buffalo
2016 Prizewinner: Max Crinnin, “My Sverige”
SUNY Buffalo
Prize Name: Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Founded: 2010
Donor: Mr. Dan Liberthson
2016 Prizewinner: Kristina Marie Darling, “Notes to a History of the Locket”
SUNY Farmingdale
Prize Name: Raynor Wallace Poetry Award
Founded: 1988
Donor: SUNY Farmingdale
2016 Prizewinner: No prize awarded
SUNY Oswego
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Mr. John W. Mincher, Jr.
2016 Prizewinner: Anna Swisher, “Photograph of a Father”
Sweet Briar College
Prize Name: The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 2003
Donor: Jean Meyer Aloe
2016 Prizewinner: Ashely Baker, “Stationary”
Temple University
Prize Name: Albert J. Caplan Prize
Founded: 1985
Donor: Mr. Albert J. Caplan
2016 Prizewinner: Victoria Shelton, “Ekphrasis of Judith”
University of Texas at Austin
Prize Name: Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: The Andrew Julius Gutow Memorial Fund
2016 Prizewinners: Ariana Brown, “Origins” and Rebecca Liu, “A Motet of Commons”
Trinity College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1997
Donor: Trinity College
2016 Prizewinner: Molly Thoms, “The bicycle was collateral damage”
Tufts University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: Tufts University
2016 Prizewinner: David Weber-Schloss, “Jasper”
Tulane University
Prize Name: Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Mr. Herbert V. Larson, Jr.
2016 Prizewinner: M’Bilia Meekers, “Purging”
United States Naval Academy
Prize Name: Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1975
Donor: Mrs. A. Stuart Pitt
2016 Prizewinner: Kevin Crush, “Gentle Sway”
University of Utah
Prize Name: Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Founded: 1969
Donor: University of Utah
2016 Prizewinner: Jai Bashir, “Double Exposure”
Valdosta State University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1986
Donor: Mr. Edward Davin Vickers
2016 Prizewinner: Brooke McKinney, “Wild Misery”
Valparaiso University
Prize Name: Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Founded: 1988
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2016 Prizewinner: Taylor Weise
Vanderbilt University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Vanderbilt University
2016 Prizewinner: Ben Shane, “Splitting Firewood on a Winter Afternoon”
Vassar College
Prize Name: Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: Mr. Albert H. Gordon
2016 Prizewinner: Michaela Coplan, “Ancient Fragment on the Theory of Ruin Value”
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prize Name: Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Founded: 2002
Donor: Nan Byrne
2016 Prizewinner: Christian Detisch, “The Little Way”
University of Virginia
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: University of Virginia
2016 Prizewinner: Julia Katrina Agulair Cariño
Virginia Tech
Prize name: Virginia Tech/ Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Founded: 2007
Donor: The Poetry Society of Virginia
2016 Prizewinner: Sara Sheiner
Washington College
Prize Name: The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Dr. & Mrs. Jude Pfister
2016 Prizewinner: Valerie Dunn
Washington & Lee University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Anonymous
2016 Prizewinner: Chauncey Baker, “The Sleepwalker’s Manifesto”
Washington University
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1968
Donor: Washington University
2016 Prizewinners: Justin Reed and Theresa DiMascio, “Alien”
University of Washington
Prize Name: Harold Taylor Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The New Hope Foundation
2016 Prizewinners: Alex Streim and Jack Chelgren, “Laocoon”
Wayne State University
Prize Name: John Clare Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: Mr. & Mrs. Nancy & Michael Becker
2016 Prizewinner: Ian Mathes, “A Day in June”
Wellesley College
Prize Name: Nevin Prize
Founded: 1957
Donor: The Family of Betty Nevin Marshall & Robert Nevin
2016 Prizewinners: Julia Chille and Renne Lu, “To Know”
Wells College
Prize Name: Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: The Lyric Foundation for Traditional Poetry
2016 Prizewinner: Melanie Canales
Wesleyan College
Prize Name: George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Founded: 1984
Donor: J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz
2016 Prizewinner: Melissa Rodriguez, “chéri”
Wesleyan University
Prize Name: Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Founded: 2008
Donor: Kate Bernheimer
2016 Prizewinners: Madalena Henning, “Background Check” and Markeisha Hill, “Womanish”
Westminster College
Prize Name: Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Founded: 1999
Donor: Westminster College
2016 Prizewinner: Alaa Al-Barkawi, “Wedding Daydream”
College of William & Mary
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 1983
Donor: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
2016 Prizewinner: Dana Lotito, “Oświęcim, Poland; 2000”
Williams College
Prize Name: Bullock Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Academy of American Poets
2016 Prizewinner: Teague Morris
Wilson College
Prize Name: The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Founded: 2013
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Darah Wolf, “The Star by Edgar Degas”
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Prize Name: Edward W. Ryan Poetry Prize
Founded: 2005
Donor: Mary Ann Ryan
2016 Prizewinner: Tobias Wray, “Buggery”
College of Wooster
Prize Name: Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Founded: 1983
Donor: Ms. Susan Donnell
2016 Prizewinner: Kat Neis, “Elegy for the Stone Crab”
Yale University
Prize Name: Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Founded: 1955
Donor: The Lannan Foundation
2016 Prizewinner: James Orbison, “The Tub Story”
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Prize Name: Academy of American Poets Prize
Founded: 2011
Donor: Yonsei University
2016 Prizewinner: Hedgie Choi, “Rosa”
York College of Pennsylvania
Prize Name: Mary Jane’s Diamond Prize
Founded: 2015
Donor: Mr. Raymond W. Britcher
2016 Prizewinner: Hedgie Choi, “Rosa”