The Hecht Prize Anthology 2005 – 2009

Joseph HarrisonPublication: November 8th, 2011

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The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize was launched by Waywiser in 2005, and is awarded annually for the best first or second collection of original poems in English submitted. In its first five years, the contest went from strength to strength, helped in this by a distinguished list of final judges – J. D. McClatchy, Mary Jo Salter, Richard Wilbur, Alan Shapiro and Rosanna Warren.

Thom Gunn once derided the poetry anthology as “at best a convenience for teachers but otherwise a pernicious modern nuisance which keeps readers away from books of poetry”. The Hecht Prize Anthology 2005-2009, ably edited by Joseph Harrison, and containing work by fifty of the poets who reached the contest’s later stages during its first five years, vividly demonstrates how far from the truth Gunn’s generalization was.

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The Hecht Prize Anthology 2005 – 2009

"The Hecht Prize is the new plum."

– Richard Kenney

Craig Arnold
Bruce Berger
Peter Bethanis
Kimberly Burwick
Michaela Carter
Ken Chen
Scott Coffel
Andrew Cox
Morri Creech
Gregory Crosby
Erica Dawson
Anthony Deaton
Matt Donovan
Molly Fisk
Martha Greenwald
Daniel Groves
Jamey Hecht
Jaimee Hills
Karen Holmberg
Lesley Jenike
Carrie Jerrell
Rose Kelleher
Dore Kiesselbach
Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck
Anthony Lacavaro
Matthew Ladd
Nick Lantz
Julie Larios
Dennis Loney
Dora Malech
Christopher Todd Matthews
Nicole Melanson
Derek Mong
Sierra Nelson
Michael Lee Phillips
Jessica Piazza
Aaron Poochigian
Alison Powell
Chris Preddle
Bobby C. Rogers
John Surowiecki
Michael Swan
Bradford Gray Telford
Jamie Joel Thomas
Matthew Thorburn
D. H. Tracy
Barbara Louise Ungar
Cody Walker
Mike White
Lisa Williams

Featured Poets

Craig Arnold
Bruce Berger
Peter Bethanis
Kimberly Burwick
Michaela Carter
Ken Chen
Scott Coffel
Andrew Cox
Morri Creech
Gregory Crosby
Erica Dawson
Anthony Deaton
Matt Donovan
Molly Fisk
Martha Greenwald
Daniel Groves
Jamey Hecht
Jaimee Hills
Karen Holmberg
Lesley Jenike
Carrie Jerrell
Rose Kelleher
Dore Kiesselbach
Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck
Anthony Lacavaro
Matthew Ladd
Nick Lantz
Julie Larios
Dennis Loney
Dora Malech
Christopher Todd Matthews
Nicole Melanson
Derek Mong
Sierra Nelson
Michael Lee Phillips
Jessica Piazza
Aaron Poochigian
Alison Powell
Chris Preddle
Bobby C. Rogers
John Surowiecki
Michael Swan
Bradford Gray Telford
Jamie Joel Thomas
Matthew Thorburn
D. H. Tracy
Barbara Louise Ungar
Cody Walker
Mike White
Lisa Williams