Yale Series of Younger Poets
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Land | Vereinigte Staaten |
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Sprache | Englisch |
Discipline | Poetry |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Published | Annually since 1919 |
No. of books | 114 |
OCLC | 1605127 |
Website | youngerpoets.yupnet.org |
The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet. The contest was founded in 1919, and is the oldest annual literary award in the United States.
Each year the Press publishes one book-length manuscript by an American poet who has not previously published a book of poetry. The winner receives royalties upon publication of the book. All poems must be original, and only one manuscript may be entered at a time.
The contest solidified its importance in American literature under the judgeship of Stephen Vincent Benet.[2] Benet was judge from 1933 to 1942, followed by Archibald MacLeish from 1944 to 1946. Margaret Walker's For My People was the last volume selected by Benet. Auden assumed the judgeship after MacLeish. The contest is regarded by some[3] to have been at its height from 1947 to 1959, when W. H. Auden was choosing the winners. His then-young poets included Adrienne Rich, James Wright, W. S. Merwin, John Ashbery, and John Hollander. The period was also notable for the two-time refusal of Sylvia Plath's manuscript Two Lovers,[4] and Colossus which was subsequently published in England.[3] The 1969–1977 period, overseen by Stanley Kunitz, included volumes by Carolyn Forché and Robert Hass; Hass later became the Poet Laureate of the United States. The judgeship of W. S. Merwin, from 1998 to 2003, was fraught with controversy, as he refused to select a winner the first year that he was judge. Louise Glück, who is widely considered[5] to have revived the prize's stature, judged the award from 2003 to 2010. Carl Phillips is the current judge.
Judges
- Judges of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition[6]
-
Charlton M. Lewis
(1919–1923) -
Frederick E. Pierce
(1923) -
Edward Bliss Reed
(1923–24)
Past winners
The year column provides the date of the competition. The winning poetry collections are published the following year.
Year | Vol. | Poet | Titel | Judge | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1918 | 1 | Howard Buck | The Tempering | Charlton M. Lewis | [7] |
2 | John C. Farrar | Forgotten Shrines | [7] | ||
1919 | 3 | David Osborne Hamilton | Four Gardens | [7] | |
4 | Alfred Raymond Bellinger | Spires and Poplars | [7] | ||
5 | Thomas Caldecot Chubb | The White God and Other Poems | [7] | ||
6 | Darl MacLeod Boyle | Where Lilith Dances | [7] | ||
1920 | 7 | Theodore H. Jr. Banks | Wild Geese | [8] | |
8 | Viola C. White | Horizons | [8] | ||
9 | Hervey Allen | Wampum and Old Gold | [8] | ||
10 | Oscar Williams | Golden Darkness | [8] | ||
1921 | 11 | Harold Vinal | White April | [8] | |
12 | Medora C. Addison | Dreams and a Sword | [8] | ||
13 | Bernard Raymund | Hidden Waters | [8] | ||
14 | Paul Tanaquil | Attitudes | [8] | ||
1922 | 15 | Dean B. Jr. Lyman | The Last Lutanist | [8] | |
16 | Amos Niven Wilder | Battle-Retrospect | [8] | ||
17 | Marion M. Boyd | Silver Wands | Frederick E. Pierce | [8] | |
18 | Beatrice E. Harmon | Mosaics | [8] | ||
1923 | 19 | Elizabeth Jessup Blake | Up and Down | Edward Bliss Reed | [8] |
1924 | 20 | Dorothy E. Reid | Coach into Pumpkin | William Alexander Percy | [9] |
1925 | 21 | Eleanor Slater | Quest | [9] | |
22 | Thomas Hornsby Ferril | High Passage | [9] | ||
1926 | 23 | Lindley Williams Hubbell | Dark Pavilion | [9] | |
1927 | 24 | Mildred Bowers | Twist o' Smoke | [9] | |
25 | Ted Olson | A Stranger and Afraid | [9] | ||
26 | Francis Claiborne Mason | This Unchanging Mask | [9] | ||
1928 | 27 | Frances M. Frost | Hemlock Wall | [9] | |
28 | Henri Faust | Half-Light and Overture | [9] | ||
1929 | 29 | Louise Owen | Virtuosa | [9] | |
1930 | 30 | Dorothy Belle Flanagan (aka Dorothy B. Hughes) | Dark Certainty | [9] | |
1931 | 31 | Paul Engle | Worn Earth | [9] | |
1932 | 32 | Shirley Barker | The Dark Hills Under | Stephen Vincent Benét | [10] |
1933 | 33 | James Agee | Permit Me Voyage | [10] | |
1934 | 34 | Muriel Rukeyser | Theory of Flight | [10] | |
1935 | 35 | Edward Weismiller | The Deer Come Down | [10] | |
1936 | 36 | Margaret Haley | The Gardener Mind | [10] | |
1937 | 37 | Joy Davidman | Letter to a Comrade | [10] | |
1938 | 38 | Reuel Denney | The Connecticut River and Other Poems | [10] | |
1939 | 39 | Norman Rosten | Return Again, Traveler | [10] | |
1940 | 40 | Jeremy Ingalls | The Metaphysical Sword | [11] | |
1941 | 41 | Margaret Walker | For My People | [11] | |
1942 | No winner selected | Archibald MacLeish | [11] | ||
1943 | 42 | William Morris Jr. Meredith | Love Letters from an Impossible Land | [11] | |
1944 | 43 | Charles E. Butler | Cut Is the Branch | [11] | |
1945 | 44 | Eve Merriam | Family Circle | [11] | |
1946 | 45 | Joan Murray | Poems | W. H. Auden | [11] |
1947 | 46 | Robert Horan | A Beginning | [11] | |
1948 | 47 | Rosalie Moore | The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems | [12] | |
1949 | No winner selected | [12] | |||
1950 | 48 | Adrienne Rich | A Change of World | [12] | |
1951 | 49 | W. S. Merwin | A Mask for Janus | [12] | |
1952 | 50 | Edgar Bogardus | Various Jangling Keys | [12] | |
1953 | 51 | Daniel Hoffman | An Armada of Thirty Whales | [12] | |
1954 | No winner selected | [12] | |||
1955 | 52 | John Ashbery | Some Trees | [12] | |
1956 | 53 | James Wright | The Green Wall | [12] | |
1957 | 54 | John Hollander | A Crackling of Thorns | [13] | |
1958 | 55 | Dickey | Of the Festivity | [13] | |
1959 | 56 | George Starbuck | Bone Thoughts | Dudley Fitts | [13] |
1960 | 57 | Alan Dugan | Poems | [13] | |
1961 | 58 | Jack Gilbert | Views of Jeopardy | [13] | |
1962 | 59 | Sandra Hochman | Manhattan Pastures | [13] | |
1963 | 60 | Peter Davison | The Breaking of the Day | [13] | |
1964 | 61 | Jean Valentine | Dream Barker | [14] | |
1965 | No winner selected | [14] | |||
1966 | 62 | James Tate | The Lost Pilot | [14] | |
1967 | 63 | Helen Chasin | Coming Close and Other Poems | [14] | |
1968 | 64 | Judith Johnson Sherwin | Uranium Poems | [14] | |
1969 | 65 | Hugh Seidman | Collecting Evidence | Stanley Kunitz | [14] |
1970 | 66 | Peter Klappert | Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket | [14] | |
1971 | 67 | Michael Casey | Obscenities | [15] | |
1972 | 68 | Robert Hass | Field Guide | [15] | |
1973 | 69 | Michael Ryan | Threats Instead of Trees | [15] | |
1974 | 70 | Maura Stanton | Snow on Snow | [15] | |
1975 | 71 | Carolyn Forché | Gathering the Tribes | [15] | |
1976 | 72 | Olga Broumas | Beginning with O | [15] | |
1977 | 73 | Bin Ramke | The Difference Between Night and Day | Richard Hugo | [15] |
1978 | 74 | Leslie Ullman | Natural Histories | [15] | |
1979 | 75 | William Virgil Davis | One Way to Reconstruct the Scene | [16] | |
1980 | 76 | John Bensko | Green Soldiers | [16] | |
1981 | 77 | David Wojahn | Icehouse Lights | [16] | |
1982 | 78 | Cathy Song | Picture Bride | [16] | |
1983 | 79 | Richard Kenney | The Evolution of the Flightless Bird | James Merrill | [16] |
1984 | 80 | Pamela Alexander | Navigable Waterways | [16] | |
1985 | 81 | George Bradley | Terms to Be Met | [16] | |
1986 | 82 | Julie Agoos | Above the Land | [17] | |
1987 | 83 | Brigit Pegeen Kelly | To the Place of Trumpets | [17] | |
1988 | 84 | Thomas Bolt | Out of the Woods | [17] | |
1989 | 85 | Daniel Hall | Hermit with Landscape | [17] | |
1990 | 86 | Christiane Jacox Kyle | Bears Dancing in the Northern Air | James Dickey | [17] |
1991 | 87 | Nicholas Samaras | Hands of the Saddlemaker | [17] | |
1992 | 88 | Jody Gladding | Stone Crop | [17] | |
1993 | 89 | Valerie Wohlfeld | Thinking the World Visible | [17] | |
1994 | 90 | Tony Crunk | Living in the Resurrection | [18] | |
1995 | 91 | Ellen Hinsey | Cities of Memory | [18] | |
1996 | 92 | Talvikki Ansel | My Shining Archipelago | [18] | |
1997 | No winner selected | W. S. Merwin | [19] | ||
1998 | 93 | Craig Arnold | Shells | [20] | |
1999 | 94 | Davis McCombs | Ultima Thule | [20] | |
2000 | 95 | Maurice Manning | Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions | [20] | |
2001 | 96 | Sean Singer | Discography | [20] | |
2002 | 97 | Loren Goodman | Famous Americans | [20] | |
2003 | 98 | Peter Streckfus | The Cuckoo | [20] | |
2004 | 99 | Richard Siken | Crush | Louise Glück | [20] |
2005 | 100 | Jay Hopler | Green Squall | [20] | |
2006 | 101 | Jessica Fisher | Frail-Craft | [20] | |
2007 | 102 | Fady Joudah | The Earth in the Attic | [20] | |
2008 | 103 | Arda Collins | It Is Daylight | [20] | |
2009 | 104 | Ken Chen | Juvenilia | [20] | |
2010 | 105 | Katherine Larson | Radial Symmetry | [20] | |
2011 | 106 | Eduardo C. Corral | Slow Lightning | Carl Phillips | [20] |
2012 | 107 | Will Schutt | Westerly | [20] | |
2013 | 108 | Eryn Green | Eruv | [20] | |
2014 | 109 | Ansel Elkins | Blue Yodel | [20] | |
2015 | 110 | Noah Warren | The Destroyer in the Glass | [20] | |
2016 | 111 | Airea D. Matthews | simulacra | [20] | |
2017 | 112 | Duy Doan | We Play a Game | [20] | |
2018 | 113 | Yanyi | The Year of Blue Water | [20] | |
2019 | 114 | Jill Osier | The Solace Is Not the Lullaby | [21] |
See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
References
Citations
- ^ Yale University Press 2019, p. 1.
- ^ Bradley 1998, p. 50.
- ^ a b Davison 1998.
- ^ Alexander, 2003 & 208–209.
- ^ O'Rourke 2008.
- ^ Phillips 2019, p. 389.
- ^ a b c d e f Bradley 1998, p. v.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Bradley 1998, p. vi.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bradley 1998, p. vii.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bradley 1998, p. viii.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bradley 1998, p. ix.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Bradley 1998, p. x.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bradley 1998, p. xi.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bradley 1998, p. xii.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bradley 1998, p. xiii.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bradley 1998, p. xiv.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bradley 1998, p. xv.
- ^ a b c Bradley 1998, p. xvi.
- ^ Phillips 2019b.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Phillips 2019, p. 392.
- ^ Harriet staff 2019.
Sources
- Anon. (March 13, 2013). "Eryn Green Wins Yale Younger Poets Prize". Poets & Writers.
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(help) - Anon. (February 17, 2015). "Carl Phillips Chooses Noah Warren As 2015 Yale Series Of Younger Poets Winner". Yale University Press.
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(help) - Anon. (2019). "Yale Series of Younger Poets – Celebrating 100 Years [brochure]" (PDF). Yale University Press. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 16, 2019.
- Alexander, Paul (2003). Rough Magic. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81299-6.
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(help) - Bradley, George, ed. (1998). The Yale Younger Poets Anthology. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07472-7 – via the Internet Archive (registration required).
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(help) - Davison, Peter (June 1998). "Discovering Young Poets". The Atlantic.
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(help) - Kellogg, Carolyn (March 3, 2014). "Yale Younger Poets Prize goes to Ansel Elkins". Los Angeles Times.
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(help) - O'Rourke, Meghan (August 2008). "On Louise Glück and the Yale Series of Younger Poets". The Kenyon Review.
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(help) - Phillips, Carl, ed. (2019). Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24316-1 – via Google Books.
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