The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize


 

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2012


Judge: Charles Simic


The winner of the eighth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Shelley Puhak's Guinevere in Baltimore. For further details about the winner and the finalists and semi-finalists, please click on the logo above. Poems by the the contestants who reached the last rounds of the contest will be posted on the site shortly.

Guidelines for the next Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will be posted here in August 2013. If you would like to be notified when these become available, please click on the email link below, enter the words "Hecht Prize 2013 Information Request" in the subject box, and then click on "Send".

 

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Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2011


Judge: Mark Strand


The winner of the seventh Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Chris Andrews's Lime Green Chair. 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.






 

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2010


Judge: James Fenton


The winner of the sixth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Mark Kraushaar's The Uncertainty Principle. 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.

 




 

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2009


Judge: Rosanna Warren


The winner of the fifth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Matthew Ladd's The Book of Emblems. For further details about the winner and the finalists and semi-finalists, as well as an opportunity to read poems from their manuscripts, please click on the logo above.






Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2008


Judge: Alan Shapiro


The winner of the fourth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was 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.

 




Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2007


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.

 


 

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2006


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.

 




Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2005

 

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.

 


 

 
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The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize