Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Established in 1975, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is (currently) a $25,000 award recognizing the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. The prize is endowed by a gift to the Academy of American Poets of from the New Hope Foundation.
The prize honors Lenore Marshall, poet, novelist, essayist, and nuclear activist.
The jury for 2006 is Carl Dennis, Tony Hoagland, and Carol Muske-Dukes.
Previous Nominees and Winners
(Winners in bold)
- 2008 (Judges: Lucie Brock-Broido, B.H. Fairchild, John Koethe)
- Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf
- 2007 (Judges: David Baker, Mark McMorris, Marie Ponsot)
- Alice Notley, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005
- David Wojahn, Interrogation Palace
- 2006 (Judges: Carl Dennis, Tony Hoagland, Carol Muske-Dukes)
- Eleanor Lerman, Our Post Soviet History Unfolds
- Christian Barter, The Singers I Prefer
- Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
- Dorianne Laux, Facts About the Moon
- Ron Slate, The Incentive of the Maggot
- 2005 (Judges: Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, Alan Shapiro)
- Anne Winters, The Displaced of Capital
- Marianne Boruch, Poems: New and Selected
- Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks
- Claudia Rankine, Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- Michael Ryan, New and Selected Poems
- Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Selected Poems
- 2004 (Judges: Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, and Harryette Mullen)
- Donald Revell, My Mojave
- Carolyn Forché, The Blue Hour
- Mark McNorris, The Blaze of the Poui
- Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight
- 2003 (Judges: Andrew Hudgins, Judith Ortiz Cofer and Robert Wrigley)
- Eamon Grennan, Still Life with Waterfall
- Laura Kasischke, Dance and Disappear
- Charles Martin, Starting from Sleep
- Suzanne Paola, The Lives of the Saints
- Natasha Trethewey, Bellocqs Ophelia
- Dean Young, Skid
- 2002 (Judges: Joy Harjo, Michael S. Harper, Lawson Inada)
- Madeline DeFrees, Blue Dusk
- 2001 (Judges: Elaine Equi, Ann Lauterbach, Bob Perelman)
- Fanny Howe, Selected Poems
Winners, 1975–2000
See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature