Lyric Poetry Award
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The Lyric Poetry Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America
and was "established under the will of PSA member Mrs. Consuelo Ford (Althea Urn), and also in memory of Mary Carolyn Davies, for a lyric poem on any subject."
Each winner receives a $500 prize.
Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
and was "established under the will of PSA member Mrs. Consuelo Ford (Althea Urn), and also in memory of Mary Carolyn Davies, for a lyric poem on any subject."
Each winner receives a $500 prize.
Winners
- 2010: Ira SadoffIra SadoffIra Sadoff is an award winning and widely anthologized poet, critic, novelist and short story writer.-Life:Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. from the University of...
, Judge: Meghan O'RourkeMeghan O'RourkeMeghan O'Rourke is an American poet, critic, and a contributing writer for the online magazine Slate. She is a graduate of Yale. O'Rourke was formerly a fiction editor at The New Yorker and from 2005-2010 was poetry co-editor at The Paris Review... - 2009: Susan KinsolvingSusan KinsolvingSusan Kinsolving is an American poet whose books include The White Eyelash, Dailies & Rushes and Among Flowers....
, Judge: Lucie Brock-BroidoLucie Brock-BroidoLucie Brock-Broido is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J... - 2008: Wayne Miller, Judge: Elizabeth MacklinElizabeth Macklin-Life:She read Spanish literature at SUNY Potsdam, and Complutense University of Madrid. In 1974 to 1999, worked at The New Yorker, living in New York City.She spent a year in Bilbao, Spain, until February 2000....
- 2007: Ed SkoogEd Skoog-Life:He graduated from Kansas State University, and from the University of Montana, with an MFA.He worked at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.He taught at Tulane University, and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts....
, Judge: Srikanth Reddy - 2006: Alice JonesAlice JonesAlice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is Gorgeous Mourning . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Chelsea...
, Judge: Toi DerricotteToi DerricotteToi Derricotte is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh.At Wayne State University she earned a B.A. in 1965 and an M.A... - 2005: Lee UptonLee UptonLee Upton is an American poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.-Life:...
, Judge: Susan WheelerSusan WheelerSusan Wheeler is an educator and award-winning poet whose poems have frequently appeared in anthologies. She currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University.Her published works include:... - 2004: Carol Ciavonne, Judge: D.A. Powell
- 2002: Shira Dentz, Judge: Mark LevineMark LevineMark Levine is the name of:* Mark Levine , jazz musician* Mark Levine , host of Mark Levine's Inside Scoop radio show, and The American Dream television show on Press TV*Mark Levine , American poet...
- 2001: Gary YoungGary YoungGary Young was the first drummer of the 1990s alternative rock band Pavement.-Early life:Gary Young was born in Mamaroneck, New York. His father worked in the plastics business.-Work with Pavement:...
See also
- Poetry Society of AmericaPoetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
- List of American literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in poetry
External links
- http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards.php Poetry Society of America main awards Web page