Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
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The Poetry Society of America
's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award is given "by the family and friends of Robert H. Winner, whose first book of poems appeared when he was almost fifty years old. This award acknowledges original work being done in mid-career by a poet who has not had substantial recognition, and is open to poets over forty who have published no more than one book."
Each winner receives a $2500 prize.
Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award is given "by the family and friends of Robert H. Winner, whose first book of poems appeared when he was almost fifty years old. This award acknowledges original work being done in mid-career by a poet who has not had substantial recognition, and is open to poets over forty who have published no more than one book."
Each winner receives a $2500 prize.
Winners
- 2010: Leslie WilliamsLeslie WilliamsWilliam Leslie "Les" Thomas Williams was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s who at representative level played rugby union for Wales, and at club level for Llanelli RFC, and Cardiff RFC, playing at Wing, or Centre, i.e...
, Judge: David St. JohnDavid St. John-Biography:Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an M.F.A. in 1974... - 2009: Eliot Khalil Wilson, Judge: Henri ColeHenri ColeHenri Cole is an award-winning American poet.-Biography:Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in...
- 2008: Jocelyn Emerson, Judge: Annie FinchAnnie FinchAnnie Finch is an American poet. She is author of numerous books of poetry as well as poetry translation, poetry anthologies and criticism, opera libretti, and poetic collaborations with visual art, music, theater, and dance. Her writings on poetry address topics including meter and prosody,...
- 2007: Charlene Fix, Judge: Eleanor WilnerEleanor Wilner-Life:She graduated from Goucher College, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D.She was editor of The American Poetry Review, and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx....
- 2006: Daneen Wardrop, Judge: Jean ValentineJean ValentineJean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....
- 2005: Julie SheehanJulie Sheehan-Life:She graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University.She lives on Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton....
, Judge: Sharon OldsSharon Olds-Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad... - 2004: John McKernan, Judge: Linda GreggLinda GreggLinda Alouise Gregg is an American poet.-Biography:Although born just miles northwest of New York City, Ms. Gregg grew up on the other side of the country, in Marin County, California. She received both her Bachelor of Arts, in 1967, and her Master of Arts, in 1972, from San Francisco State College...
- 2003: John Glowney and Rusty MorrisonRusty MorrisonRusty Morrison is an American poet and publisher. She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland, California, an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, and an MA in Education from California State University, San Francisco...
, Judge: Ron PadgettRon PadgettRon Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan... - 2002: Margo Berdeshevsky, Judge: Marie PonsotMarie PonsotMarie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily...
- 2001: Alice JonesAlice JonesAlice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is Gorgeous Mourning . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Chelsea...
and Jeffrey Franklin
See also
- Poetry Society of AmericaPoetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
- List of American literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry