Four Quartets Prize

In summary:

1. Fourteen pages of poems published in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book in 2018 is the minimum per submission. Please be sure to order the poems in the sequence.
2. Send four copies of the sequence of poems, along with four copies of a paragraph-length statement describing its aims.
3. If the poems in the sequence have been published separately in print or online journals or in a chapbook, please include four copies of the table of contents and the copyright page of each journal or chapbook attached to the poems published in that publication.
4. If the sequence is contained in a book, please send four copies of the sequence along with four copies of the table of contents' page and the copyright page.
5. If the sequence constitutes an entire book, please send four copies of the book.
6. In all cases, be sure to include four copies of the paragraph-length statement describing the aims of the sequence.
7. The Poetry Society of America will accept submissions from authors, publishers, and literary agents postmarked no later than December 22, 2018.
8. Only one submission per author will be considered.
9. Only work published in 2018 will be considered.
10. Self-published work is ineligible.
11. Multi-author work is ineligible.
12. Translations are ineligible.
13. No work will be returned.
14. The submission must be accompanied by an entry form.
15. Submissions should be addressed and sent as follows:

Four Quartets Prize
Poetry Society of America
15 Gramercy Park
New York, New York 10003

For an acknowledgment of receipt of submissions, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard.

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we cannot acknowledge receipt of submissions over the phone or email or inform entrants of incorrectly submitted or disqualified material, nor can we accept any corrections or revisions to submissions. No entries will be returned.