Poetry Prize
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.
4th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Alan Shapiro
The winner of the fourth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Carrie Jerrell’s After the Revival.
3rd Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Richard Wilbur
The winner of the third Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Rose Kelleher’s Bundle o’ Tinder.
2nd Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Judge: Mary Jo Salter
The winner of the second Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was Erica Dawson’s Big-Eyed Afraid.