Student Poetry Award | 2027

Judge

Erin Marie Lynch is the author of Removal Acts (Graywolf Press, 2023). Her writing appears in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, POETRY, New England Review, DIAGRAM, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.

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.