The 18th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will open for submissions on September 1st, 2022
2022-09-01 00:00 - 2022-12-01 00:00 (America/New_York) | NC
The 18th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize will open for submissions at midnight on September 1st 2022, and will close again at midnight on December 1st, 2022.
Anyone over the age of 18 who has not already published more than one full-length poetry collection may submit.
The winner will receive a purse of $3,000, and his or her collection will be published by Waywiser in the USA and the UK in the spring of 2024. The winner and the judge will give a reading in Washington DC under the auspices of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Past judges include Richard Wilbur, Heather McHugh, Mark Strand, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, Rosanna Warren, J.D. McClatchy, Eavan Boland, Edward Hirsch, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Vijay Seshadri, Charles Wright, and Alice Fulton.
Submit online a manuscript of between 48 and 88 pages with a $29 entry fee by midnight on December 1st, 2022.
For full guidelines and submission portal, please visit our website: https://hechtprize.waywiser-press.com/

A bilingual reading of poems from Late Montale, presented by the translator George Bradley and Professor Riccardo Bruscagli
2022-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Poet George Bradley, accompanied by Professor Riccardo Bruscagli, will read from his translations of Eugenio Montale, published in Late Montale (Waywiser, 2022). Bradley is the author of six books, most recently A Stroll in the Rain: New & Selected Poems (LSU Press 2021). Among his awards are the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Peter I. B. Lavan Award from The Academy of American Poets, an Ingram Merrill prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Riccardo Bruscagli, Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Florence, is an expert on poetry from various periods, with special attention to Carducci, Ariosto, Tasso, and Dante, as well as Montale.
The event is free, but you will need to pre-register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcuuopz4tGdKhCzZ9beZcvRy1EmTZltsJ

James Davis will read from his prize winning collection, Club Q
2022-10-12 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | The Wild Detectives, 314 W. Eighth Street, Dallas, TX, 75208, United States
James Davis will read from his prize-winning poetry collection, Club Q, at The Wild Detective in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday October 12th from 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, so do come along if you can. James will be in conversation with the event’s host, Logen Cure, after the reading, discussing Club Q and new work.

Danielle Blau will read from p e e p, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
2022-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Danielle Blau’s debut full-length poetry collection peep was selected by Vijay Seshadri for the 2021 Anthony Hecht Prize. Her nonfiction book Rhyme or Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Problem of Being Here Now is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Blau’s mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published with an introduction by D.A. Powell, and her poems won first place in the multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest. Poetry, short stories, articles, and interviews by Blau appear in The Atlantic, Australian Book Review, The Baffler, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, several volumes of the Plume Anthology of Poetry, and elsewhere. Her work has been set to music by composers of various stripes and performed in such venues as Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Carnegie Hall. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of New York University with an MFA in poetry, Blau teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan, and curates and hosts the monthly Gavagai Music + Reading Series in Queens, where she lives with her son Kai.
This event is free, but you must preregister here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/872563677

Henry Walters will read from The Nature Thief, finalist for the 16th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
2023-02-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Zoom Reading
Henry Walters is a New Hampshire poet, raised in the Midwest. His second book of poems, The Nature Thief, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was published by The Waywiser Press in late 2022. His first book of poetry, Field Guide A Tempo, was a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A student of Latin and Greek, he lived as a falconer’s apprentice in Ireland and a beekeeper’s assistant in Sicily before returning to the United States, where he has worked as a seasonal biologist, postal carrier, census-taker, gardener, carpenter, baseball and basketball coach, actor, and birding guide. His poems, translations, reviews, and essays appear in periodicals such as The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Orion, Literary Imagination, and New Letters. He lives with his young family, a hive of bees, and a hawk.
The event is free but you must register in advance by going to:
Henry_Walters_Reading

The Seventeenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading
2023-03-01 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 200003, United States
James D’Agostino, whose The Goldfinch Caution Tapes, won the seventeenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, will read alongside the contest’s judge, acclaimed poet Alice Fulton.
Please note that this event will be presented via ZOOM in Eastern Time (ET). Access links will be included in a performance reminder email closer to the event.
Tickets to this event are Pay What You Will, starting at $5, in order to make them accessible to whoever would like to attend. We appreciate whatever you can afford, which will go toward supporting future programming.
To reserve your ticket(s), please click on this link, which will take you to the Folger Shakespeare Library’s website: https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-alice-fulton-james-dagostino/
