Poetry Prize
19th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Winner
Julia Thacker, All the Flowers Are for Me
Nominees
(in name order)
Katie Chaple, How Clearly You Can See Some Nights
Will Cordeiro, Self-Guided Tours Through Intemperate Weather
Jalen Eutsey, Bubble Gum Stadium
Kerry James Evans, Arachne’s Tapestry
Sara Femenella, Elegies for One Small Future
David Gorin, A Pale Green Star
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Exquisite Distance
Sophie Grimes, The Shape of Time
Eva Mary Hooker, Portion
Angelo Mao, A White Horse Is Not a Horse
Forester McClatchey, The Tedium of Miracles
Andrea Ballou Read, Family Business
Julia Shipley, Inside an Animal
Dillon Tracy, The New New Normal
Hannah Louise Poston
Hannah Louise Poston, whose Julia Hungry was awarded the eighteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize by the judge of that year’s contest, Linda Gregerson, is a poet, essayist, and online content creator whose writing has appeared in several places, including Poetry Daily, Longreads, and The New York Times. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which she attended as the Thomas Wolfe Scholar in Creative Writing. Hannah has taught poetry and writing as the Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School, at The Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts, and at the University of Michigan, and she has taught Argentine tango in studios all over the country. For work she reviews makeup on YouTube and writes grants for climate activists. She is from the mountains of North Carolina and she currently lives in Maryland.
18th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Winner
Hannah Louise Poston, Julia Hungry
Nominees
(in name order)
Katie Chaple, How clearly you can see some nights
Kerry James Evans, Arachne’s Tapestry
Michael Fulop, The Long Blue Evenings of Summer
Justin Jannise, Twin Envy
Kevin McFadden, Wicked Bible
David Semanki, Ghost Camera
Julia Shipley, Inside an Animal
Julia Thacker, The Winter Comb
D. H. Tracy, The New New Normal
Heather Treseler, Auguries and Divinations
Craig Van Rooyen, Remnant
17th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Alice Fulton
The winner of the seventeenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is James D’Agostino’s The Goldfinch Caution Tapes.
16th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Vijay Seshadri
The winner of the sixteenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Danielle Blau’s peep.
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
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