Poetry Prize
16th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
The sixteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will open for submissions here on September 1st 2020 and will remain open till midnight on December 1st 2020. Our guidelines will be posted here at the same time.
15th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Ed Hirsch
The winner of the fifteenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is James Davis’s Club Q.
14th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Charles Wright
The winner of the fourteenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Katherine Hollander’s My German Dictionary.
13th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge:Andrew Motion
The winner of the thirteenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Christopher Cessac’s The Youngest Ocean.
12th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge:Gjertrud Schnackenberg
The winner of the twelfth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Mike White’s Addendum to a Miracle.
11th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Eavan Boland
The winner of the eleventh Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Austin Allen’s Pleasures of the Game.
10th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Anthony Thwaite
The winner of the tenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Jaimee Hills’s How to Avoid Speaking.
9th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Heather McHugh
The winner of the ninth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Geoffrey Brock’s Voices Bright Flags.
8th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Charles Simic
The winner of the eighth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Shelley Puhak’s Guinevere in Baltimore.
7th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Mark Strand
The winner of the seventh Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Chris Andrews’s Lime Green Chair.