Yale Series of Younger Poets

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Yale Series of Younger Poets
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Centennial logo[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherYale University Press
PublishedAnnually since 1919 (1919)
No. of books114

The Yale Series of Younger Poets is a yearly event of Yale University Press to print the first book of poems by a new American poet. It began in 1919. It is the longest-running yearly literary award in the United States.[2]

Each year, the Younger Poets Competition accepts books from American poets who have not yet published a book of poetry. Once the judge chooses a winner, that book is printed as the next book in the series. All poems must be original. Only one book may be entered at a time.[2]

Winners get a $1,000 advance payment and a contract to publish their book. They also get one of the five writing fellowships at The James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. There they will have a furnished living space and daily access to James Merrill’s apartment. This gives the writer a quiet place to work on a literary or academic project.[3]


Judges[change | change source]

Winners[change | change source]

  • 2022 – Mary-Alice Daniel, Mass for Shut-Ins
  • 2021 – Robert Wood Lynn, Mothman Apologia
  • 2020 – Desiree C. Bailey, What Noise Against the Cane
  • 2019 – Jill Osier, The Solace Is Not the Lullaby
  • 2018 – Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water
  • 2017 – Duy Doan, We Play a Game
  • 2016 – Airea D. Matthews, Simulacra
  • 2015 – Noah Warren, The Destroyer in the Glass
  • 2014 – Ansel Elkins, Blue Yodel
  • 2013 – Eryn Green, Eruv
  • 2012 – Will Schutt, Westerly
  • 2011 – Eduardo Corral, Slow Lightning
  • 2010 – Katherine Larson, Radial Symmetry
  • 2009 – Ken Chen, Juvenilia
  • 2008 – Arda Collins, It Is Daylight
  • 2007 – Fady Joudah, The Earth in the Attic
  • 2006 – Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft
  • 2005 – Jay Hopler, Green Squall
  • 2004 – Richard Siken, Crush
  • 2003 – Peter Streckfus, The Cuckoo
  • 2002 – Loren Goodman, Famous Americans
  • 2001 – Sean Singer, Discography
  • 2000 – Maurice Manning, Lawrence Booth’s Book Of Visions
  • 1999 – Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule
  • 1998 – Craig Arnold, Shells
  • 1996- Talvikki Ansel, My Shining Archipelago
  • 1995 – Ellen Hinsey, Cities of Memory
  • 1994 – Tony Crunk, Living in The Resurrection
  • 1993 – Valerie Wohlfield, Thinking The World Visible
  • 1992 – Jody Gladding, Stone Crop
  • 1991 – Nicholas Samaras, Hands of The Saddlemaker
  • 1990 – Christiane Jacox Kyle, Bears Dancing in the Northern Air
  • 1989 – Daniel Hall, Hermit with Landscape
  • 1988 – Thomas Bolt, Out of The Woods
  • 1987 – Brigit Pegeen Kelly, To The Place of Trumpets
  • 1986 – Julie Agoos, Above The Lands
  • 1985 – George Bradley, Terms To Be Met
  • 1984 – Pamela Alexander, Navigable Waterways
  • 1983 – Richard Kenney, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
  • 1982 – Cathy Song, Picture Bride
  • 1981 – David Wojahn, Icehouse Lights
  • 1980 – John Bensko, Green Soldiers
  • 1979 – William Virgil Davis, One Way to Reconstruct The Scene
  • 1978 – Leslie Ullman, Natural Histories
  • 1977 – Bin Ramke, The Difference Between Night and Day
  • 1976 – Olga Broumas, Beginning with O
  • 1975 – Carolyn Forché, Gathering The Tribes
  • 1974 – Maura Stanton, Snow on Snow
  • 1973 – Michael Ryan, Threats Instead of Trees
  • 1972 – Robert Hass, Field Guide
  • 1971 – Michael Casey, Obscenities
  • 1970 – Peter Klappert, Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket
  • 1969 – Hugh Seidman, Collecting Evidence
  • 1968 – Judith Johnson Sherwin, Uranium Poems
  • 1967 – Helen Chasin, Coming Close and Other Poems
  • 1966 – James Tate, The Lost Pilot
  • 1964 – Jean Valentine, Dream Barker
  • 1963 – Peter Davison, The Breaking of the Day
  • 1962 – Sandra Hochman, Manhattan Pastures
  • 1961 – Jack Gilbert, Views of Jeopardy
  • 1960 – Alan Dugan, Poems
  • 1959 – George Starbuck, Bone Thoughts
  • 1958 – William Dickey, Of The Festivity
  • 1957 – John Hollander, A Crackling of Thorns
  • 1956 – James Wright, The Green Wall
  • 1955 – John Ashbery, Some Trees
  • 1953 – Daniel Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Whales
  • 1952 – Edgar Bogardus, Various Jangling Keys
  • 1951 – W. S. Merwin, A Mask for Janus
  • 1950 – Adrienne Rich, A Change of World
  • 1948 – Rosalie Moore, The Grasshopper’s Man and Other Poems
  • 1947 – Robert Horan, A Beginning
  • 1946 – Joan Murray, Poems
  • 1945 – Eve Merriam, Family Circle
  • 1944 – Charles E. Butler, Cut Is the Branch
  • 1943 – William Meredith, Love Letters from an Impossible Land
  • 1941 – Margaret Walker, For My People
  • 1940 – Jeremy Ingalls, The Metaphysical Sword
  • 1939 – Norman Rosten, Return Again, Traveler
  • 1938 – Reuel Denney, The Connecticut River and Other Poems
  • 1937 – Joy Davidman, Letter to a Comrade
  • 1936 – Margaret Haley, The Gardener Mind
  • 1935 – Edward Weis Miller, The Deer Come Down
  • 1934 – Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight
  • 1933 – James Agee, Permit Me Voyage
  • 1932 – Shirley Baker, The Dark Hills Under
  • 1931 – Paul Engle, Worn Earth
  • 1930 – Dorothy Belle Flanagan (aka Dorothy B. Hughes) – Dark Certainty
  • 1929 – Louise Owen, Virtuosa
  • 1928 – Henri Faust, Half-Light and Overture; Frances M. Frost, Hemlock Wall
  • 1927 – Francis Claiborne Mason, This Unchanging Mask; Ted Olson, A Stranger and Afraid; Mildred Bowers, Twist o’ Smoke
  • 1926 – Lindley Williams Hubbell, Dark Pavilion
  • 1925 – Thomas Hornsby Ferril, High Passage; Eleanor Slater, Quest
  • 1924 – Dorothy E. Reid, Coach into Pumpkin
  • 1923 – Elizabeth Jessup Blake, Up and Down
  • 1922 – Beatrice E. Harmon, Mosaics; Marion M. Boyd, Silver Wands; Amos Niven Wilder, Battle-Retrospect; Dean B. Lyman, Jr., The Last Lutanist
  • 1921 – Paul Tanaquil, Attitudes; Barnard Raymund, Hidden Waters; Medora C. Addison, Dreams and a Sword; Harold Vinal, White April
  • 1920 – Oscar Williams, Golden Darkness; Hervey Allen, Wampum and Old Gold; Viola C. White, Horizons; Theodore H. Banks, Jr., Wild Geese
  • 1919 – Darl MacLeod Boyle, Where Lilith Dances; Thomas Caldecot Chubb, The White God and Other Poems; Alfred Raymond Bellinger, Spires and Poplars; David Osborne Hamilton, Four Gardens
  • 1918 – John C. Farrar, Forgotten Shrines; Howard Buck, The Tempering

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ Yale University Press 2019, p. 1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Yale Series of Younger Poets". Yale University Press. 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Yale Series of Younger Poets Rules". Yale University Press. 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
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