Student Poetry Award | 2026

Judge
Patrycja Humienik is the author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), selected as a New York Public Library Best New Poetry Book. An editor and teaching artist, Patrycja has developed writing and movement workshops for Arts+Literature Laboratory, The Seventh Wave, Northwest Film Forum, Henry Art Gallery, and in prisons. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere.

Endowed under the wills of Louise Louis Whitbread and Ruth M. Bourne.

Submission Details & Instructions

• You can only submit one entry per student.
• Teachers or administrators may submit an unlimited number of their students' poems, one submission per student.
  
• A poem that has previously won a PSA Award cannot be resubmitted.
• No previously published work can be submitted.
• Translations are ineligible.
• Poems by more than one author will not be accepted.
• All entries must be sent though Submittable.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.

Entry Fees

High school students may submit single entries to the Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award for $5.

High school teachers or administrators may submit an unlimited number of their students' poems (one submission per student) for a $20 entry fee.

You do not need to be a Poetry Society of America member to submit to this award.

The winners will be announced in late spring.