James Laughlin Award
The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book. The award is given by the Academy of American Poets, and is noted as one of the major prizes awarded to younger poets in the United States.[1] In 1959, Harvey Shapiro referred to the award as "roughly, a Pulitzer for bardlings."[2]
Laughlin Award Winners (1996–present)
This partial listing is taken from the website of the Academy of American Poets.[3]
Year | Poet | Book | Judges |
2022 | Annelyse Gelman | Vexations | Solmaz Sharif, Aracelis Girmay |
2021 | James Cagney | Martian | Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Mark Bibbins, Ladan Osman |
2020 | Chet'la Sebree | Field Study | Rick Barot, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers[4] |
2019 | Aditi Machado | Emporium | Gillian Conoley, Fady Joudah, Cole Swensen |
2018 | Geffrey Davis | Night Angler | Patricia Spears Jones, Craig Santos Perez, Prageeta Sharma |
2017 | sam sax | Bury It | Tyehimba Jess, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Jill McDonough |
2016 | Mary Hickman | Rayfish | Ellen Bass, Jericho Brown, Carmen Giménez Smith |
2015 | Kathryn Nuernberger | The End of Pink | Francisco X. Alarcón, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, D. Nurske |
2014 | Brian Blanchfield | A Several World | Lee Ann Brown, Tina Chang, C. S. Giscombe |
2013 | Jillian Weise | The Book of Goodbyes | Jeffrey McDaniel, Brenda Shaughnessy, Susan Wheeler |
2012 | Catherine Barnett | The Game of Boxes | April Bernard, Cyrus Cassells, Dana Levin (poet) |
2011 | Anna Moschovakis | You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake | Juliana Spahr, Brian Teare, Mónica de la Torre |
2010 | Michael Dickman | Flies | Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Major Jackson, Michael Ryan |
2009 | Jennifer K. Sweeney[5] | How to Live on Bread and Music | Robin Becker, Bob Hicok, Afaa M. Weaver |
2008 | Rusty Morrison[6] | the true keeps calm biding its story[7] | Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, Bruce Smith |
2007 | Brenda Shaughnessy | Human Dark with Sugar | Peter Gizzi, Matthea Harvey, Caroline Knox |
2006 | Tracy K. Smith | Duende | Elizabeth Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Terrance Hayes |
2005 | Barbara Jane Reyes | Poeta en San Francisco | James Longenbach, Susan Stewart, Elizabeth Alexander |
2004 | Jeff Clark | Music and Suicide | Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Jo Bang, Susan Stewart |
2003 | Vijay Seshadri | The Long Meadow | Mary Jo Bang, Thom Gunn, Campbell McGrath |
2002 | Karen Volkman | Spar | Mary Jo Bang, Daniel Hall, Campbell McGrath |
2001 | Peter Johnson | Miracles & Mortifications | Daniel Hall, Campbell McGrath, Marilyn Nelson |
2000 | Liz Waldner | A Point Is That Which Has No Part | Agha Shahid Ali, Lynn Emanuel, Marilyn Nelson |
1999 | Tory Dent | HIV, Mon Amour | Lynn Emanuel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marilyn Nelson |
1998 | Sandra Alcosser | Except by Nature | Lynn Emanuel, Yusef Komunyakaa, David St. John |
1997 | Tony Hoagland | Donkey Gospel | Yusef Komunyakaa, Heather McHugh, William Matthews |
1996 | David Rivard | Wise Poison | Heather McHugh, William Matthews, David St. John |
Lamont Poetry Selections (1975–1995)
Lamont Poetry Selections (1954–1974)
For the first 20 years, a poet's first published volume was the annual Lamont Poetry Selection.
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See also
- American poetry
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
References
- ^ Beach, Christopher (1999). Poetic Culture. Northwestern University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8101-1678-8.
The vast majority of those winning the major awards for younger poets over the last two decades (Guggenheims, Lamont prizes, the National Poetry Series, for example) have held graduate degrees in creative writing.
- ^ Shapiro, Harvey (August 9, 1959). "The Timbre of Three New Voices". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "James Laughlin Award". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ "The Academy of American Poets Announces the Recipients of the 2020 American Poets Prizes". The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ Academy of American Poets > Jennifer K. Sweeney Receives the James Laughlin Award
- ^ Five Berkeley Authors Win Northern California Book Awards, Berkeley Daily Planet, April 30, 2009
- ^ [1] Archived December 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sharon Olds Receives Lamont Poetry Award New York Times, September 18, 1983