Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Totally Explained

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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, and Carol 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, and Harryette 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 and Robert 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
1999

Year Winner Work Judges
Wanda Coleman Bathwater Wine Rafael Campo, Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker

1998 Mark Jarman Questions for Ecclesiastes Charles Simic, Chase Twichell, Charles Wright

1997 Robert Pinsky The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 Mark Doty, Susan Mitchell, Mary Oliver

1996 Charles Wright Chickamauga Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Laurie Sheck

1995 Marilyn Hacker Winter Numbers Maxine Kumin, Cornelius Eady, Alice Fulton

1994 W. S. Merwin Travels Gerald Stern, Deborah Digges, Stephen Dunn

1993 Thom Gunn The Man with Night Sweats Robert Pinsky, Carol Muske, James Tate

1992 Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World Mona Van Duyn, Edward Hirsch, Thomas Lux

1991 John Haines New Poems, 1980-88 Donald Hall, Josephine Jacobsen, Molly Peacock

1990 Michael Ryan God Hunger William Pritchard, Sydney Lea, Liz Rosenberg

1989 Thomas McGrath Selected Poems, 1938-1988 Amy Clampitt, Richard Kenney, Robert Shaw

1988 Josephine Jacobsen The Sisters: New & Selected Poems William Jay Smith, Robert Phillips, Katha Pollitt

1987 Donald Hall The Happy Man Robert Pinsky, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Douglas Crase

1986 Howard Moss New Selected Poems J. D. McClatchy, Richard Howard, Rachel Hadas

1985 John Ashbery A Wave Dave Smith, Rika Lesser, John Hollander

1984 Josephine Miles Collected Poems, 1930-83 Alfred Corn, Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Justice

1983 George Starbuck The Argot Merchant Disaster Dana Gioia, May Swenson, Sydney Lea

1982 John Logan The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980 William Jay Smith, Carolyn Kizer, Paul Zweig

1981 Sterling A. Brown The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown Philip Levine, Michael Harper, Jean Valentine

1980 Stanley Kunitz The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 William Jay Smith, Cynthia Macdonald, Quincy Troupe

1979 Hayden Carruth Brothers, I Loved You All Alastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Mark Strand

1978 Allen Tate Collected Poems, 1919-1976 Alastair Reid, John Hollander, May Swenson

1977 Philip Levine The Names of the Lost William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, Charles Wright

1976 Denise Levertov The Freeing of the Dust Hayden Carruth

1975 Cid Corman O/I Hayden Carruth

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