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Prize Winners 2018–1998

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Prize Judges 2011–present: Carl Phillips2003–2010: Louise Glück1997–2003: W. S. Merwin1990–1996: James Dickey1983–1989: James Merrill1977–1982: Richard Hugo1969–1976: Stanley Kunitz1958–1968: Dudley Fitts1946–1958: W. H. Auden1942–1945: Archibald MacLeish1933–1942: Stephen Vincent Benét1925–1932: William Alexander Percy1923–1924: Edward Bliss Reed1923: Frederick E. Pierce1919–1923: Charlton M. Lewis

Forthcoming in 2019 NewEdited by Carl Phillips Firsts: A Century of Yale Younger Poets

ReissuesMargaret Walker For My People (winner, 1941)W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus (winner, 1951)John Lawrence Ashbery Some Trees (winner, 1955)Alan Dugan Poems (winner, 1960)Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy (winner, 1961)Robert Hass Field Guide (winner, 1972)Carolyn Forché Gathering the Tribes (winner, 1975)Olga Broumas Beginning with O (winner, 1976)Richard Siken Crush (winner, 2004)

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Celebrating 100 Years

Yale series ofyounger poets

1931 Paul Engle Worn Earth

1932 Shirley Barker The Dark Hills Under

1933 James Agee Permit Me Voyage

1934 Muriel Rukeyser Theory of Flight

1935 Edward Weismiller The Deer Come Down

1936 Margaret Haley The Gardener Mind

1937 Joy Davidman Letter to a Comrade

1938 Reuel Denney The Connecticut River: And Other Poems

1939 Norman Rosten Return Again, Traveler

1940 Jeremy Ingalls The Metaphysical Sword

1941 Margaret Walker For My People

1943 William Meredith Love Letter from an Impossible Land

1944 Charles Edward Butler Cut Is the Branch

1945 Eve Merriam Family Circle

1946 Joan Murray Poems by Joan Murray 1917–1942

1947 Robert Horan A Beginning

1948 Rosalie Moore The Grasshopper’s Man: And Other Poems

1950 Adrienne Cecile Rich A Change of World 1951 W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus

1952 Edgar Bogardus Various Jangling Keys

1953 Daniel Gerard Hoffman An Armada of Thirty Whales

1955 John Lawrence Ashbery Some Trees

1956 James Arlington Wright The Green Wall

1957 John Hollander A Crackling of Thorns

1958 William Hobart Dickey Of the Festivity

1959 George Edwin Starbuck Bone Thoughts

1960 Alan Dugan Poems 1961 Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy1962 Sandra Hochman Manhattan Pastures

1963 Peter Hubert Davison The Breaking of the Day: And Other Poems

1964 Jean Valentine Dream Barker: And Other Poems

1966 James Vincent Tate The Lost Pilot

1967 Helen Chasin Coming Close And Other Poems

1968 Judith Johnson Sherwin Uranium Poems

1969 Hugh Seidman Collecting Evidence

1970 Peter Klappert Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket

1971 Michael Casey Obscenities

1972 Robert Hass Field Guide

1973 Michael Ryan Threats Instead of Trees

1974 Maura Stanton Snow on Snow

1975 Carolyn Forché Gathering the Tribes1976 Olga Broumas Beginning with O

1977 Bin Ramke The Difference between Night and Day

1978 Leslie Ullman Natural Histories

1918 John Chipman Farrar Forgotten Shrines

1918 Howard Swazey Buck The Tempering

1919 David Osborne Hamilton Four Gardens

1919 Alfred Raymond Bellinger Spires and Poplars

1919 Darl MacLeod Boyle Where Lilith Dances

1919 Thomas Caldecot Chubb The White God: And Other Poems

1920 Oscar Williams The Golden Darkness

1920 Viola Chittenden White Horizons

1920 Hervey Allen Wampum and Old Gold

1920 Theodore Howard Banks, Jr. Wild Geese

1921 Paul Tanaquil Attitudes

1921 Medora C. Addison Dreams and a Sword

1921 Bernard Raymund Hidden Waters

1921 Harold Vinal White April

1922 Amos Niven Wilder Battle-Retrospect

1922 Dean Belden Lyman, Jr. The Last Lutanist: And Other Poems

1922 Beatrice Harmon Mosaics

1922 Marion M. Boyd Silver Wands

1923 Elizabeth Blake Up and Down

1924 Dorothy E. Reid Coach into Pumpkin

1925 Thomas Hornsby Ferril High Passage

1925 Eleanor Chapin Slater Quest

1926 Lindley Williams Hubbell Dark Pavilion

1927 Ted Olson A Stranger and Afraid

1927 Francis Claiborne Mason This Unchanging Mask

1927 Mildred Bowers Twist o’ Smoke

1928 Henri Faust Half-Light and Overtones

1928 Frances M. Frost Hemlock Wall

1929 Louise Owen Virtuosa: A Book of Verse

1930 Dorothy Belle Flanagan Dark Certainty

1979 William Virgil Davis One Way to Reconstruct the Scene1980 John Bensko Green Soldiers

1981 David Wojahn Icehouse Lights 1982 Cathy Song Picture Bride 1983 Richard Kenney The Evolution of the Flightless Bird1984 Pamela Alexander Navigable Waterways

1985 George Bradley Terms to Be Met

1986 Julie Agoos Above the Land

1987 Brigit Pegeen Kelly To the Place of Trumpets

1988 Thomas Bolt Out of the Woods 1989 Daniel Hall Hermit with Landscape1990 Christiane Jacox Kyle Bears Dancing in the Northern Air

1991 Nicholas Samaras Hands of the Saddlemaker1992 Jody Gladding Stone Crop

1993 Valerie Wohlfeld Thinking the World Visible1994 T. Crunk Living in the Resurrection1995 Ellen Hinsey Cities of Memory

1996 Talvikki Ansel My Shining Archipelago1998 Craig Arnold Shells 1999 Davis McCombs Ultima Thule 2000 Maurice Manning Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions2001 Sean Singer Discography 2002 Loren Goodman Famous Americans 2003 Peter Streckfus The Cuckoo 2004 Richard Siken Crush 2005 Jay Hopler Green Squall 2006 Jessica Fisher Frail-Craft 2007 Fady Joudah The Earth in the Attic2008 Arda Collins It Is Daylight 2009 Ken Chen Juvenilia 2010 Katherine Larson Radial Symmetry 2011 Eduardo Corral Slow Lightning 2012 Will Schutt Westerly 2013 Eryn Green Eruv 2014 Ansel Elkins Blue Yodel 2015 Noah Warren The Destroyer in the Glass2016 Airea D. Matthews Simulacra 2017 Duy Doan We Play a Game 2018 Yanyi The Year of Blue Water

also available:

Edited by George Bradley The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998)

out of print availableto be reissued in 2019

The Yale Younger Poets Prize champions the most promising new American poets. Awarded since 1919, it is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. The competition is open to emerging poets who have not previously published a book of poetry and who reside in the United States.

past prize winners