Poetry Prize
14th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize – Closed
The December 1st deadline for the fourteenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize has now passed, and the judging process is underway.The contest’s results will be posted on the press’s website – at The Waywiser Press – in March 2019.
This portal will re-open for submissions to the 15th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize on August 1st 2019.
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.
6th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: James Fenton
The winner of the sixth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Mark Kraushaar’s The Uncertainty Principle.
5th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Rosanna Warren
The winner of the fifth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Matthew Ladd’s The Book of Emblems.