List of winners of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is administered by the Academy of American Poets selected by the New Hope Foundation in 1994. Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.[1][2][3][4][5]

The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support the arts and the cause of world peace";[6] Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971.[7] Receipt of the prize has been among the distinctions noted by the Library of Congress when the Poet Laureate of the United States is named.[8][9][10][11]

The Prize was initially administered by the Saturday Review magazine.[12] Following the folding of Saturday Review, the Prize was administered by The Nation magazine.[13] In 1995, administration of the Prize became the responsibility of the Academy; the Prize has a permanent endowment. The Prize is still sponsored by The Nation, which usually publishes an article about the poetry of each year's finalists and winner. The cash value of the prize is currently $25,000.

Winners

Year	Poet	Book	Judges
1975	Cid Corman	O/I	Hayden Carruth
1976	Denise Levertov	The Freeing of the Dust	Hayden Carruth
1977	Philip Levine	The Names of the Lost	William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, Charles Wright
1978	Allen Tate	Collected Poems, 1919-1976	Alastair Reid, John Hollander, May Swenson
1979	Hayden Carruth	Brothers, I Loved You All	Alastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Mark Strand
1980	Stanley Kunitz	The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978	William Jay Smith, Cynthia Macdonald, Quincy Troupe
1981	Sterling A. Brown	The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown	Philip Levine, Michael S. Harper, Jean Valentine
1982	John Logan	The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980	William Jay Smith, Carolyn Kizer, Paul Zweig
1983	George Starbuck	The Argot Merchant Disaster	Dana Gioia, May Swenson, Sydney Lea
1984	Josephine Miles	Collected Poems, 1930-83	Alfred Corn, Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Justice
1985	John Ashbery	A Wave	Dave Smith, Rika Lesser, John Hollander
1986	Howard Moss	New Selected Poems	J. D. McClatchy, Richard Howard, Rachel Hadas
1987	Donald Hall	The Happy Man	Robert Pinsky, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Douglas Crase
1988	Josephine Jacobsen	The Sisters: New & Selected Poems	William Jay Smith, Robert Phillips, Katha Pollitt
1989	Thomas McGrath	Selected Poems, 1938-1988	Amy Clampitt, Richard Kenney, Robert Shaw
1990	Michael Ryan	God Hunger	William Pritchard, Sydney Lea, Liz Rosenberg
1991	John Haines	New Poems, 1980-88	Donald Hall, Josephine Jacobsen, Molly Peacock
1992	Adrienne Rich	An Atlas of the Difficult World	Mona Van Duyn, Edward Hirsch, Thomas Lux
1993	Thom Gunn	The Man with Night Sweats	Robert Pinsky, Carol Muske, James Tate
1994	W. S. Merwin	Travels	Gerald Stern, Deborah Digges, Stephen Dunn
1995	Marilyn Hacker[14]	Winter Numbers	Maxine Kumin, Cornelius Eady, Alice Fulton
1996	Charles Wright	Chickamauga	Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Laurie Sheck
1997	Robert Pinsky	The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996	Mark Doty, Susan Mitchell, Mary Oliver
1998	Mark Jarman	Questions for Ecclesiastes	Charles Simic, Chase Twichell, Charles Wright
1999	Wanda Coleman	Bathwater Wine	Rafael Campo, Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker
2000	David Ferry	Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations	W. S. Di Piero, Mary Kinzie, Eleanor Wilner
2001	Fanny Howe	Selected Poems	Elaine Equi, Ann Lauterbach, Bob Perelman
2002	Madeline DeFrees	Blue Dusk	Joy Harjo, Michael S. Harper, Lawson Inada
2003	Eamon Grennan	Still Life with Waterfall	Judith Ortiz Cofer, Andrew Hudgins, Robert Wrigley
2004	Donald Revell[15]	My Mojave	Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander, Harryette Mullen
2005	Anne Winters	The Displaced of Capital	Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, Alan Shapiro
2006	Eleanor Lerman	Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds	Carl Dennis, Tony Hoagland, Carol Muske-Dukes
2007	Alice Notley	Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005	David Baker, Mark McMorris, Marie Ponsot
2008	Henri Cole[16]	Blackbird and Wolf	Lucie Brock-Broido, B. H. Fairchild, John Koethe
2009	Linda Gregg[2]	All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems	Dorianne Laux, J. D. McClatchy, James Richardson
2010	John Koethe	Ninety-fifth Street	Marianne Boruch, David Kirby, John Yau
2011	C.D. Wright	One With Others	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, D. A. Powell, Martha Ronk
2012	David Wojahn	World Tree	Linda Gregerson, David St. John, Natasha Trethewey
2013	Patricia Smith	Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah	Cornelius Eady, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr
2014	Rigoberto González	Unpeopled Eden	Kwame Dawes, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Susan Stewart
2015	Kevin Young	The Book of Hours	Marie Howe, A. Van Jordan, Donald Revell
2016	Lynn Emanuel	The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected	Amy Gerstler, Reginald Gibbons, Kimiko Hahn
2017	Patrick Rosal	Brooklyn Antediluvian	Rigoberto González, Vijay Seshadri, Susan Wheeler
2018	Craig Morgan Teicher	The Trembling Answers	Laura Kasischke, Campbell McGrath, Mary Szybist
2019	Kyle Dargan	Anagnorisis	Major Jackson, Patricia Smith, David Wojahn
2020	Hanif Abdurraqib	A Fortune for Your Disaster	Garrett Hongo, Tim Seibles, Raquel Salas Rivera
2022	Mai Der Vang	Yellow Rain
2023	Ama Codjoe	Bluest Nude: Poems

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15. November 29, 2004 | The Nation
16. Henri Cole Wins $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize | Daily News | Poets & Writers