The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

For details about the sixth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, as well as guidelines and application forms, please click on the logo above.

Judge: Rosanna Warren The winner of the fifth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is 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.

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.

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.