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Finalists have been announced since 1980.
Winners
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.
A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory.
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society.
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society.
Finalists
A collection of poems remarkable for its variety of subjects, array of genres and nimble use of language.
A collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examine popular culture, the limits of the human body and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience.
A book of lyric poems that evinces compassion for the human condition as it explores the constraints that limit the possibility of people changing the course of their lives.
A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human.
