Finalists
Hadara Bar-Nadav
James Davis May
Selected by Paula Bohince
Awards
Award Winners
Individual Awards
2019
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
Lyric Poetry Award
At Times My Body Leans Toward Loss
Kelli Russell Agodon
Finalist
Michael Dumanis
Selected by Ilya Kaminsky
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
George Bogin Memorial Award
ONCE, I PRAYED IN THE WATER
Sara Henning
Selected by Khaled Mattawa
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
Selected by Patricia Spears Jones
2018
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
Finalists
Rae Armantrout
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
selected by Lynn Melnick
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
Lyric Poetry Award
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Interior with a Woman Peeling Oranges, Snapping Beans
Molly Spencer
Finalists
Benjamin Paloff
Kevin Prufer
Selected by Maggie Smith
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
George Bogin Memorial Award
All Stars Are Lights, Not All Lights Are Stars
Brian Tierney
Finalists
Catherine Imbriglio
Cate Lycurgus
Selected by Daniel Borzutzky
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
Fourth of July
Elizabeth Knapp
Selected by Airea D. Matthews
2017
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
Lyric Poetry Award
As a Human Being
Jericho Brown
Finalists
Catherine Imbriglio
Christina Pugh
Selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
George Bogin Memorial Award
Finalists
Beth Bachmann
Kai Carlson-Wee
Aidan Forster
Brian Tierney
Selected by Victoria Redel
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Dress (Aurora Borealis)
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Selected by Francisco Aragón
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
Selected by Donald Revell
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
an excerpt from 903
Heather Altfeld
Finalists
Elizabeth Jacobson
Taije Silverman
Selected by Fred Marchant
2016
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
The Porch Roof's Sky Blue Ceiling
Kathleen Winter
Selected by Carmen Giménez Smith
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
Selected by Laura Kasischke
Lyric Poetry Award
Devotional (after a Muslim Prayer)
Philip Metres
Selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
I Love You More than All the Windows in New York City
Jessica Greenbaum
Finalists
Michael Dumanis
James Haug
Selected by Elaine Equi
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Selected by Yona Harvey
George Bogin Memorial Award
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
2015
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
George Bogin Memorial Award
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
Lyric Poetry Award
Selected by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
Look for Raven Pairs Flying in a Pre-Mating Ritual
Karen Skolfield
Finalists
J. C. Todd
Jonathan Weinert
Selected by Alan Shapiro
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Orycteropus afer (Antbear), Kalahari
Sandra Meek
Finalists
Adam O. Davis
Sara Henning
Selected by Fady Joudah
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
The People Who Feel No Pain
Jenny Browne
Finalists
Dean Rader
Rob Schlegel
Mitchell Untch
Selected by Rachel Zucker
2014
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
George Bogin Memorial Award
We grew up hearing war stories
Gary Young
Finalists
Meena Alexander
Jane Wong
Selected by Jessica Greenbaum