Walt Whitman Award

The Walt Whitman Award is given by the Academy of American Poets to an American poet who has never before published a book of poetry. The award, named in honour of American Poet Walt Whitman, was established in 1975 and includes publication of a first book, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Louisiana State University Press currently publishes the winning manuscript, which is chosen by an eminent poet. The Academy purchases copies of the book and distributes it to members. Winners are announced in May.

The judge for the 2008 award will be Linda Bierds.

Winners

:2008: Jonathan Thirkield, "The Waker's Corridor" (LSU Press) Linda Bierds :2007: Sally Van Doren, "Sex at Noon Taxes" (LSU Press) August Kleinzahler :2006: Anne Pierson Wiese, "Floating City" (LSU Press) Kay Ryan :2005: Mary Rose O’Reilley, "Half Wild" (LSU Press) Mary Oliver :2004: Geri Doran, "Resin" (LSU Press) Henri Cole :2003: Tony Tost, "Invisible Bride" (LSU Press) C.D. Wright :2002: Sue Kwock Kim, "Notes from the Divided Country" (LSU Press) Yusef Komunyakaa :2001: John Canaday, "The Invisible World" (LSU Press) Sherod Santos :2000: Ben Doyle, "Radio, Radio" (LSU Press) Susan Howe :1999: Judy Jordan, "Carolina Ghost Woods" (LSU Press) James Tate :1998: Jan Heller Levi, "Once I Gazed at You in Wonder" (LSU Press) Alice Fulton :1997: Barbara Ras, "Bite Every Sorrow" (LSU Press) C. K. Williams :1996: Joshua Clover, "Madonna anno domini" (LSU Press) Jorie Graham :1995: Nicole Cooley, "Resurrection" (LSU Press) Cynthia Macdonald :1994: Jan Richman, "Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything" (LSU Press) Robert Pinsky :1993: Alison Hawthorne Deming, "Science and Other: Poems" (LSU Press) Gerald Stern :1992: Stephen Yenser, "The Fire in All Things" (LSU Press) Richard Howard :1991: Greg Glazner, "From the Iron Chair" (W. W. Norton) Charles Wright :1990: Elaine Terranova, "The Cult of the Right Hand" (Doubleday) Rita Dove :1989: Martha Hollander, "The Game of Statues" (Atlantic Monthly Press) W.S. Merwin :1988: April Bernard, "Blackbird Bye Bye" (Random House) Amy Clampitt :1987: Judith Baumel, "The Weight of Numbers" (Wesleyan U. Press) Mona Van Duyn :1986: Chris Llewellyn, "Fragments from the Fire" (Viking) Maxine Kumin :1985: Christianne Balk, "Bindweed" (Macmillan) Anthony Hecht :1984: Eric Pankey, "For the New Year" (Atheneum) Mark Strand :1983: Christopher Gilbert, "Across the Mutual Landscape" (Graywolf Press) Michael S. Harper :1982: Anthony Petrosky, "Jurgis Petraskas" (Louisiana State University Press) Philip Levine :1981: Alberto Ríos, "Whispering to Fool the Wind" (Sheep Meadow Press) Donald Justice :1980: Jared Carter, "Work, for the Night is Coming" (Macmillan) Galway Kinnell :1979: David Bottoms, "Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump" (Morrow) Robert Penn Warren :1978: Karen Snow, "Wonders" (Viking) Louis Simpson :1977: Lauren Shakely, "Guilty Bystander" (Random House) Diane Wakoski :1976: Laura Crafton Gilpin, "The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe" (Doubleday) William Stafford :1975: Reg Saner, "Climbing into the Roots" (Harper & Row) William Meredith

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/110] Walt Whitman Award Web page from the American Academy of Poets Web site