- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Established in 1975, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is (currently) a $25,000 award recognizing the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. The prize is endowed by a gift to the
Academy of American Poets of from the New Hope Foundation.The prize honors
Lenore Marshall , poet, novelist, essayist, and nuclear activist.The jury for 2006 is
Carl Dennis ,Tony Hoagland , andCarol Muske-Dukes .Previous Nominees and Winners
(Winners in bold)
*2007 (Judges:
David Baker ,Mark McMorris ,Marie Ponsot )
**Alice Notley , "Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005"
**David Wojahn , "Interrogation Palace "*2006 (Judges:
Carl Dennis ,Tony Hoagland ,Carol Muske-Dukes )
**Eleanor Lerman , "Our Post Soviet History Unfolds"
**Christian Barter , "The Singers I Prefer"
**Jack Gilbert , "Refusing Heaven"
**Dorianne Laux , "Facts About the Moon"
**Ron Slate , "The Incentive of the Maggot"*2005 (Judges:
Louise Glück ,Robert Pinsky ,Alan Shapiro )
**Anne Winters , "The Displaced of Capital"
**Marianne Boruch , "Poems: New and Selected"
**Sharon Olds , "Strike Sparks"
**Claudia Rankine , "Don't Let Me Be Lonely"
** Michael Ryan, "New and Selected Poems"
**Jean Valentine , "Door in the Mountain: New and Selected Poems"*2004 (Judges:
Forrest Gander ,Brenda Hillman , andHarryette Mullen )
**Donald Revell , "My Mojave"
**Carolyn Forché , "The Blue Hour"
**Mark McNorris , "The Blaze of the Poui"
**Reginald Shepherd , "Otherhood"
**Rosmarie Waldrop , "Blindsight"*2003 (Judges: Andrew Hudgins,
Judith Ortiz Cofer andRobert Wrigley )
**Eamon Grennan , "Still Life with Waterfall"
**Laura Kasischke , "Dance and Disappear"
**Charles Martin , "Starting from Sleep"
**Suzanne Paola , "The Lives of the Saints"
**Natasha Trethewey , "Bellocqs Ophelia"
**Dean Young, "Skid"*2002 (Judges:
Joy Harjo ,Michael S. Harper ,Lawson Inada )
**"'Madeline DeFrees , "Blue Dusk"*2001 (Judges:
Elaine Equi ,Ann Lauterbach ,Bob Perelman )
**"'Fanny Howe , "Selected Poems"Winners, 1975–2000
ee also
*
American poetry
*List of poetry awards
*List of literature awards
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature External links
* [http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/108 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize home (AAP)]
* [http://www.awardannals.com/wiki/Honor_roll:Lenore_Marshall_Poetry_Prize Award Annals honor roll: a ranked list of Lenore Marshall Prize recipients]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.