The Yale Forthcoming in 2019

Series of New Edited by Carl Phillips Firsts: A Century of Yale Younger Poets Younger Poets Reissues Margaret Walker For My People (winner, 1941) Prize Winners W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus (winner, 1951) John Lawrence Ashbery Some Trees (winner, 1955) 2018–1998 Alan Dugan Poems (winner, 1960) Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy (winner, 1961) Robert Hass Field Guide (winner, 1972)

2018 Carolyn Forché Gathering the Tribes (winner, 1975) Olga Broumas Beginning with O (winner, 1976) Richard Siken Crush (winner, 2004)

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2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Prize Judges younger poets 2011–present: Carl Phillips 2003–2010: Louise Glück 1997–2003: W. S. Merwin Yale 1990–1996: James Dickey Celebrating 100 Years 1983–1989: James Merrill 1977–1982: Richard Hugo

2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 1969–1976: 1958–1968: Dudley Fitts 1946–1958: W. H. Auden 1942–1945: Archibald MacLeish 1933–1942: Stephen Vincent Benét 1925–1932: William Alexander Percy 1923–1924: Edward Bliss Reed 1923: Frederick E. Pierce 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 1919–1923: Charlton M. Lewis

university press yalebooks.comYale youngerpoets.yupnet.org 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 The Yale Younger Poets Prize 1931 Paul Engle Worn Earth 1979 William Virgil Davis One Way to Reconstruct the Scene 1932 Shirley Barker The Dark Hills Under 1980 John Bensko Green Soldiers champions the most promising new American 1933 James Agee Permit Me Voyage 1981 David Wojahn Icehouse Lights poets. Awarded since 1919, it is the oldest 1934 Muriel Rukeyser Theory of Flight 1982 Cathy Song Picture Bride 1935 Edward Weismiller The Deer Come Down 1983 Richard Kenney The Evolution of the Flightless Bird annual literary award in the . 1936 Margaret Haley The Gardener Mind 1984 Pamela Alexander Navigable Waterways The competition is open to emerging poets 1937 Joy Davidman Letter to a Comrade 1985 George Bradley Terms to Be Met 1938 Reuel Denney The Connecticut River: 1986 Julie Agoos Above the Land who have not previously published a book And Other Poems 1987 Brigit Pegeen Kelly To the Place of Trumpets 1939 Norman Rosten Return Again, Traveler of poetry and who reside in the United States. 1988 Thomas Bolt Out of the Woods 1940 Jeremy Ingalls The Metaphysical Sword 1989 Daniel Hall Hermit with Landscape 1941 Margaret Walker For My People 1990 Christiane Jacox Kyle Bears Dancing in the Northern Air 1943 William Meredith Love Letter from an Impossible Land 1991 Nicholas Samaras Hands of the Saddlemaker 1944 Charles Edward Butler Cut Is the Branch 1992 Jody Gladding Stone Crop 1945 Eve Merriam Family Circle 1993 Valerie Wohlfeld Thinking the World Visible past prize winners 1946 Joan Murray Poems by Joan Murray 1917–1942 1994 T. Crunk Living in the Resurrection 1947 Robert Horan A Beginning 1995 Ellen Hinsey Cities of Memory 1918 John Chipman Farrar Forgotten Shrines 1948 Rosalie Moore The Grasshopper’s Man: 1996 Talvikki Ansel My Shining Archipelago 1918 Howard Swazey Buck The Tempering And Other Poems 1998 Craig Arnold Shells 1919 David Osborne Hamilton Four Gardens 1950 Adrienne Cecile Rich A Change of World 1999 Davis McCombs Ultima Thule 1919 Alfred Raymond Bellinger Spires and Poplars 1951 W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus 2000 Maurice Manning Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions 1919 Darl MacLeod Boyle Where Lilith Dances 1952 Edgar Bogardus Various Jangling Keys 2001 Sean Singer Discography 1919 Thomas Caldecot Chubb The White God: And Other Poems 1953 Daniel Gerard Hoffman An Armada of Thirty Whales 2002 Loren Goodman Famous Americans 1920 Oscar Williams The Golden Darkness 1955 John Lawrence Ashbery Some Trees 2003 Peter Streckfus The Cuckoo 1920 Viola Chittenden White Horizons 1956 James Arlington Wright The Green Wall 2004 Richard Siken Crush 1920 Hervey Allen Wampum and Old Gold 1957 John Hollander A Crackling of Thorns 2005 Jay Hopler Green Squall 1920 Theodore Howard Banks, Jr. Wild Geese 1958 William Hobart Dickey Of the Festivity 2006 Jessica Fisher Frail-Craft 1921 Paul Tanaquil Attitudes 1959 George Edwin Starbuck Bone Thoughts 2007 Fady Joudah The Earth in the Attic 1921 Medora C. Addison Dreams and a Sword 1960 Alan Dugan Poems 2008 Arda Collins It Is Daylight 1921 Bernard Raymund Hidden Waters 1961 Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy 2009 Ken Chen Juvenilia 1921 Harold Vinal White April 1962 Sandra Hochman Manhattan Pastures 2010 Katherine Larson Radial Symmetry 1922 Amos Niven Wilder Battle-Retrospect 1963 Peter Hubert Davison The Breaking of the Day: 2011 Eduardo Corral Slow Lightning 1922 Dean Belden Lyman, Jr. The Last Lutanist: And Other Poems And Other Poems 2012 Will Schutt Westerly 1922 Beatrice Harmon Mosaics 1964 Jean Valentine Dream Barker: And Other Poems 2013 Eryn Green Eruv 1922 Marion M. Boyd Silver Wands 1966 James Vincent Tate The Lost Pilot 2014 Ansel Elkins Blue Yodel 1923 Elizabeth Blake Up and Down 1967 Helen Chasin Coming Close And Other Poems 2015 Noah Warren The Destroyer in the Glass 1924 Dorothy E. Reid Coach into Pumpkin 1968 Judith Johnson Sherwin Uranium Poems 2016 Airea D. Matthews Simulacra 1925 Thomas Hornsby Ferril High Passage 1969 Hugh Seidman Collecting Evidence 2017 Duy Doan We Play a Game 1925 Eleanor Chapin Slater Quest 1970 Peter Klappert Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket 2018 Yanyi The Year of Blue Water 1926 Lindley Williams Hubbell Dark Pavilion 1971 Michael Casey Obscenities

1927 Ted Olson A Stranger and Afraid 1972 Robert Hass Field Guide also available: 1927 Francis Claiborne Mason This Unchanging Mask 1973 Michael Ryan Threats Instead of Trees Edited by George Bradley The Yale Younger 1927 Mildred Bowers Twist o’ Smoke 1974 Maura Stanton Snow on Snow Poets Anthology (1998) 1928 Henri Faust Half-Light and Overtones 1975 Carolyn Forché Gathering the Tribes 1928 Frances M. Frost Hemlock Wall 1976 Olga Broumas Beginning with O out of print 1929 Louise Owen Virtuosa: A Book of Verse 1977 Bin Ramke The Difference between Night and Day available 1930 Dorothy Belle Flanagan Dark Certainty 1978 Leslie Ullman Natural Histories to be reissued in 2019