The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

Judge: Alan Shapiro The winner of the fourth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Carrie Jerrell's After the Revival. For further details about the winner and the finalists and semi-finalists, as well as an opportunity to read poems from each of their manuscripts, please click on the logo above. Guidelines and application forms for the next Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will be posted here in August 2009. If you would like to be notified when the guidelines and application forms become available, please click on the email link below, enter the words "Hecht Prize 2009 Information Request" in the subject box, and then click on "Send".   Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2009 Alert

Judge: Richard Wilbur The winner of the third Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Rose Kelleher's Bundle o' Tinder. For further details about the winner and the finalists and semi-finalists, as well as an opportunity to read poems from each of their manuscripts, please click on the logo above.

Judge: Mary Jo Salter The winner of the second Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Erica Dawson's Big-Eyed Afraid. For further details about the winner and the finalists and semi-finalists, as well as an opportunity to read poems from each of their manuscripts, please click on the logo above.     Judge: J. D. McClatchy The winner of the first Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Morri Creech's Field Knowledge. For further details about the winner and the finalists and semi-finalists, as well as an opportunity to read poems from each of their manuscripts, please click on the logo above.