Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press

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aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American

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poet

Poet

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. The contest was founded in 1919, and is the oldest annual literary award in the United States

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.

Each year the Press publishes one book-length manuscript

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by a United States

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citizen under the age of forty who has not previously published a book of poetry

Poetry

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. The winner receives royalties

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upon publication of the book. All poems must be original, and only one manuscript

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may be entered at a time.

The contest solidified its importance in American literature

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under the judgeship of Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By...

. Benet was judge, 1933–1942, followed by Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...

, 1944 - 1946. Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker

Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander was an African-American poet and writer. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her best-known poems is For My People.-Biography:...

's For My People was the last volume selected by Benet. Auden assumed the judgeship after MacLeish. The contest is regarded by some to have been at its height from 1947 to 1959, when W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

was choosing the winners. His then-young poets included Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...

, James Wright

James Wright (poet)

James Arlington Wright was an American poet.Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize. But by the early 1960s, Wright, increasingly influenced by the Spanish language...

, W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin

William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...

, John Ashbery

John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

, and John Hollander

John Hollander

John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

. The period was also notable for the two-time refusal of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...

's manuscript Two Lovers, and Colossus which was subsequently published in England. The 1969-1977 period, overseen by Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...

, included volumes by Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A...

and Robert Hass

Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...

; Hass later became the Poet Laureate of the United States. The judgeship of W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin

, from 1998 to 2003, was fraught with controversy, as he refused to select a winner the first year that he was judge. Louise Glück

Louise Glück

Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....

, who is widely considered to have revived the prize's stature, judged the award from 2003 to 2010. Carl Phillips is the current judge.

Past winners

This list is taken in part from The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998).

Volume	Year	Poet	Title
105	2011	Katherine Larson Katherine Larson Katherine Larson is an American poet.In 2003, she won a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.She was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in creative writing at University of Virginia.She won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, selected by Louise Glück....	Radial Symmetry
104	2010	Ken Chen Ken Chen -Life:Chen was born to immigrants from Taiwan and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained a BA in English Literature and Yale Law School, where he earned a JD.He was an editor of Arts & Letters Daily while at Berkeley and...	Juvenilia
103	2009	Arda Collins Arda Collins -Life:Collins was an intern, working up to research assistant, and then assistant director, of Public television documentaries, from 1997-2003.She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow....	It is Daylight
102	2008	Fady Joudah Fady Joudah Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems The Earth in the Attic.-Life:...	The Earth in the Attic
101	2007	Jessica Fisher Jessica Fisher Jessica Fisher is an American poet, and was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2007.She is the daughter of Ann Fisher-Wirth. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley....	Frail-Craft
100	2006	Jay Hopler Jay Hopler -Biography:He graduated from Purdue University , The Iowa Writers’ Workshop , The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and New York University .His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including American Poetry Review, The...	Green Squall
99	2005	Richard Siken Richard Siken Richard Siken is an American poet. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Crush, which won the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004, and is the editor of spork literary magazine...	Crush
98	2004	Peter Streckfus Peter Streckfus Peter Streckfus is an American poet. He was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is a professor of English at the University of Alabama.-Works:* * -Further reading:...	The Cuckoo
97	2003	Loren Goodman Loren Goodman Loren Goodman is an American postmodern poet and assistant professor of English literature and creative writing at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, in Seoul, South Korea.-Biography and Education:...	Famous Americans
96	2002	Sean Singer Sean Singer Sean Singer is an American poet. His first book, Discography, won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin. His poems have been published in various journals, including Salmagundi, Tin House, and Pleiades, and Callaloo...	Discography
95	2001	Maurice Manning Maurice Manning (poet) Maurice Manning is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin....	Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions
94	2000	Davis McCombs Davis McCombs Davis McCombs is an American poet. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, the University of Virginia as a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the Ruth Lilly Poetry Foundation, the Kentucky Arts Council,...	Ultima Thule
93	1999	Craig Arnold Craig Arnold Craig Arnold was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells , was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets...	Shells
92	1997	Talvikki Ansel Talvikki Ansel Talvikki Ansel is an American poet.She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, and Indiana University. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies New Young American Poets and The Pushcart Prize XXVI, and in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Journal, Poetry,...	My Shining Archipelago
91	1996	Ellen Hinsey Ellen Hinsey -Life and work:Ellen Hinsey was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. For the last two decades she has lived in Europe. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University and a graduate degree from Université de Paris VII...	Cities of Memory
90	1995	Tony Crunk Tony Crunk Tony Crunk is an American poet whose first volume of poetry, Living in the Resurrection, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.-Biography:...	Living in the Resurrection
89	1994	Valerie Wohlfeld Valerie Wohlfeld -Life:She was educated at American University, and Sarah Lawrence College, and received an M.F.A. from Vermont College in 1983. Valerie Wohlfeld’s 1994 collection, Thinking the World Visible, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her book, Woman with Wing Removed, came out in 2010 from Truman State...	Thinking the World Visible
88	1993	Jody Gladding Jody Gladding Jody Gladding is an American translator and poet.Gladding, who also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College, is the author of four books of poetry, one of which is a letterpress edition and one of which is a chapbook. She also has been involved in two performance/installations in...	Stone Crop
87	1992	Nicholas Samaras	Hands of the Saddlemaker
86	1991	Christiane Jacox Kyle Christiane Jacox Kyle -External links:...	Bears Dancing in the Northern Air
85	1990	Daniel Hall Daniel Hall (poet) -Life:Hall's first book, Hermit with Landscape, was selected by James Merrill as winner of the 1989 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series...	Hermit with Landscape
84	1989	Thomas Bolt Thomas Bolt Thomas Bolt is an American poet and artist.He attended public and private schools. He was a pre-college scholarship student at the Corcoran School of Art and received a B.A. in English and Art from the University of Virginia.His paintings have been shown in group exhibitions in New York...	Out of the Woods
83	1988	Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly is an award-winning American poet.-Life:She is married to , a poet and fiction writer.She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College....	To the Place of Trumpets
82	1987	Julie Agoos Julie Agoos -Life:Julie Agoos is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Above the Land and Calendar Year ....	Above the Land
81	1986	George Bradley George Bradley (poet) George Bradley is an American poet, editor, and fiction writer whose work is characterized by formal structure, humor, and satirical narrative.-Life:He attended the Hill School, Yale University, and the University of Virginia....	Terms to Be Met
80	1985	Pamela Alexander Pamela Alexander -Life:She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an M.F.A. in 1973.She teaches at Oberlin College.Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.Her papers...	Navigable Waterways
79	1984	Richard Kenney Richard Kenney Richard L. Kenney is a poet and professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River....	The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
78	1983	Cathy Song Cathy Song Cathy Song is an Asian-American poet. She is the 1982 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her collection Picture Bride. Song now resides in Kahala, Hawaii.-Personal life:Song was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii...	Picture Bride
77	1982	David Wojahn David Wojahn David Wojahn is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts...	Icehouse Lights
76	1981	John Bensko John Bensko - Career :Bensko has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in 20th century poetry and narrative technique from Florida State University...	Green Soldiers
75	1980	William Virgil Davis William Virgil Davis William Virgil Davis is an American poet.He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among others...	One Way to Reconstruct the Scene
74	1979	Leslie Ullman Leslie Ullman Leslie Ullman is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Slow Work Through Sand , co-winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her other honors include winning the 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for her first book, Natural Histories,...	Natural Histories
73	1978	Bin Ramke Bin Ramke Lloyd Binford Ramke is an American poet and editor.-Life:He graduated from at Louisiana State University, from University of New Orleans, and from Ohio University with a Ph.D.He taught at Columbus College....	The Difference Between Night and Day
72	1977	Olga Broumas Olga Broumas Olga Broumas , is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.-Biography:Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania; she earned her Bachelor's degree in architecture...	Beginning with O
71	1976	Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A...	Gathering the Tribes
70	1975	Maura Stanton Maura Stanton -Biography:Maura Stanton was born to Joseph Stanton, a salesman, and Wanda Haggard Stanton, a nurse, in Evanston, Illinois. She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and her M.F.A. in 1971 from the University of Iowa....	Snow on Snow
69	1974	Michael Ryan Michael Ryan - Sports :* Mike Ryan , former New Zealand marathon and long-distance runner* Michael Ryan , America baseball outfielder* Mike Ryan , former Major League Baseball player...	Threats Instead of Trees
68	1973	Robert Hass Robert Hass Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...	Field Guide
67	1972	Michael Casey	Obscenities
66	1971	Peter Klappert Peter Klappert -Life:He grew up in West Hempstead, New York, and Rowayton, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Iowa, with an M.A...	Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket
65	1970	Hugh Seidman Hugh Seidman -Life:He has taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, The New School.His work appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Harper's, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review....	Collecting Evidence
64	1969	Judith Johnson Sherwin	Uranium Poems
63	1968	Helen Chasin Helen Chasin -Life:She grew up in Brooklyn, New York.She attended Radcliffe College, and studied with Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, and John Nims.She taught at Emerson College, where Thomas Lux was her student.In 1973, she edited Iowa Review....	Coming Close and Other Poems
62	1967	James Tate James Tate James Tate may refer to:* James Tate , Headmaster of Richmond School 1796–1833)* James "Honest Dick" Tate , State Treasurer of Kentucky...	The Lost Pilot
61	1965	Jean Valentine Jean Valentine Jean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....	Dream Barker
60	1964	Peter Davison Peter Davison Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...	The Breaking of the Day
59	1963	Sandra Hochman Sandra Hochman Sandra Hochman is an American poet, novelist, and documentary filmmaker.-Life:She graduated from Bennington College in 1957 and studied at the Sorbonne.She was poet-in-residence at Fordham University, and City College of New York....	Manhattan Pastures
58	1962	Jack Gilbert Jack Gilbert -Life and career:Born and raised in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High School then worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, and a steelworker...	Views of Jeopardy
57	1961	Alan Dugan Alan Dugan Alan Dugan was an American poet.His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry....	Poems
56	1960	George Starbuck George Starbuck George Edwin Starbuck was an American poet of the neo-formalist school.-Life:...	Bone Thoughts
55	1959	William Dickey William Dickey (poet) William Hobart Dickey was an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University. He authored 15 books of poetry over a career that lasted three and a half decades....	Of the Festivity
54	1958	John Hollander John Hollander John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...	A Crackling of Thorns
53	1957	James Wright James Wright (poet) James Arlington Wright was an American poet.Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize. But by the early 1960s, Wright, increasingly influenced by the Spanish language...	The Green Wall
52	1956	John Ashbery John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...	Some Trees
51	1954	Daniel Hoffman Daniel Hoffman Daniel Gerard Hoffman is an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.-Biography:Hoffman was born in New York City...	An Armada of Thirty Whales
50	1953	Edgar Bogardus Edgar Bogardus -Life:He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. and an M.A. He taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology, the University of Connecticut, and Kenyon College. He was managing editor of the Kenyon Review....	Various Jangling Keys
49	1952	W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...	A Mask for Janus
48	1951	Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...	A Change of World
47	1949	Rosalie Moore Rosalie Moore Rosalie Moore, Gertrude Elizabeth Moore was an American poet.-Life:She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley magna cum laude with a B.A. in 1932; with an MA in 1934. From 1935 to 1937 she worked for KLX, and then the Census Bureau...	The Grasshopper’s Man and Other Poems
46	1948	Robert Horan Robert Horan -Life:He lived with Pauline Kael in Berkeley, California.He was part of the "Activist" group.He was friends with Gian Carlo Menotti, and Samuel Barber, staying with them at "The Capricorn", at Mount Kisco, New York....	A Beginning
45	1947	Joan Murray Joan Vincent Murray Joan Vincent Murray was a Canadian American poet.She studied at The New School, with W. H. Auden.Her papers are at Smith College....	Poems
44	1946	Eve Merriam Eve Merriam -Writing career:Merriam's first book was the 1946 Family Circle, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize.Her book, The Inner City Mother Goose, was described as one of the most banned books of the time. It inspired a 1971 Broadway musical called Inner City and a 1982 musical production called Street...	Family Circle
43	1945	Charles E. Butler Charles E. Butler -Life:He was an Army technical sergeant.His work appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Yank.-Awards:* 1945 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition* 1951 Guggenheim Fellow -Anthologies:...	Cut Is the Branch
42	1944	William Meredith William Morris Meredith, Jr. William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.-Early years:...	Love Letters from an Impossible Land
41	1942	Margaret Walker Margaret Walker Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander was an African-American poet and writer. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her best-known poems is For My People.-Biography:...	For My People
40	1941	Jeremy Ingalls Jeremy Ingalls Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet.-Life:She grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She graduated from Tufts College and studied Chinese at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute...	The Metaphysical Sword
39	1940	Norman Rosten Norman Rosten Norman Rosten was an American poet, playwright, and novelist.-Life:He grew up in Hurleyville, New York and was graduated from Brooklyn College and New York University, and the University of Michigan, where he met Arthur Miller...	Return Again, Traveler
38	1939	Reuel Denney Reuel Denney Reuel Denney was an American poet and academic.-Life:Denney grew up in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932. He taught at the University of Chicago...	The Connecticut River and Other Poems
37	1938	Joy Davidman	Letter to a Comrade
36	1937	Margaret Haley Margaret Haley Margaret A. Haley was a teacher and unionist who was dubbed the "lady labor slugger". Haley was the first business representative of the Chicago Teachers' Federation and a pioneer leader in organizing schoolteachers...	The Gardener Mind
35	1936	Edward Weismiller Edward Weismiller Edward Ronald Weismiller was an American poet, scholar and professor of English, George Washington University. He died in Washington D.C. on August 25, 2010.-Life:He was raised in Wisconsin and Vermont...	The Deer Come Down
34	1935	Muriel Rukeyser Muriel Rukeyser Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism...	Theory of Flight
33	1934	James Agee James Agee James Rufus Agee was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S...	Permit Me Voyage
32	1933	Shirley Barker	The Dark Hills Under
31	1932	Paul Engle Paul Engle Paul Engle , noted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program , both at the University of Iowa.-Life:Engle is often mistakenly...	Worn Earth
30	1931	Dorothy Belle Flanagan (aka Dorothy B. Hughes Dorothy B. Hughes Dorothy B. Hughes was an American crime writer and literary critic. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse .Born Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City, Missouri, she... )	Dark Certainty
29	1930	Louise Owen	Virtuosa
28	1929	Henri Faust	Half-Light and Overture
27	1929	Frances M. Frost Frances Frost Frances Frost was an American poet, novelist and mother of poet Paul Blackburn.-Life:...	Hemlock Wall
26	1928	Francis Claiborne Mason	This Unchanging Mask
25	1928	Ted Olson	A Stranger and Afraid
24	1928	Mildred Bowers	Twist o’ Smoke
23	1927	Lindley Williams Hubbell	Dark Pavilion
22	1926	Thomas Hornsby Ferril	High Passage
21	1926	Eleanor Slater	Quest
20	1925	Dorothy E. Reid	Coach into Pumpkin
19	1924	Elizabeth Jessup Blake	Up and Down
18	1923	Beatrice E. Harmon	Mosaics
17	1923	Marion M. Boyd	Silver Wands
16	1923	Amos Niven Wilder	Battle-Retrospect
15	1923	Dean B. Lyman, Jr.	The Last Lutanist
14	1922	Paul Tanaquil	Attitudes
13	1922	Bernard Raymund	Hidden Waters
12	1922	Medora C. Addison	Dreams and a Sword
11	1922	Harold Vinal	White April
10	1921	Oscar Williams Oscar Williams Oscar Williams was an American anthologist and poet. Oscar Williams was his pen name.-Life:He was born Oscar Kaplan in Letychiv, Ukraine, son of Jewish parents Mouzya Kaplan and Chana Rapoport...	Golden Darkness
9	1921	Hervey Allen Hervey Allen William Hervey Allen was an American author.-Biography:He graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity....	Wampum and Old Gold
8	1921	Viola C. White	Horizons
7	1921	Theodore H. Banks, Jr	Wild Geese
6	1920	Darl MacLeod Boyle	Where Lilith Dances
5	1920	Thomas Caldecot Chubb	The White God and Other Poems
4	1920	Alfred Raymond Bellinger	Spires and Poplars
3	1920	David Osborne Hamilton David Osborne Hamilton David Osborne Hamilton was an American poetHe edited the Yale Literary Magazine.His work appeared in Measure, The Century Magazine.-Works:** Picaresque, C. Scribner's sons, 1930-Anthologies:...	Four Gardens
2	1919	John C. Farrar	Forgotten Shrines
1	1919	Howard Buck Howard Buck (poet) -Life:He graduated from Yale University in 1916.He was in the American Expeditionary Forces.-Works: * A Study in Smollett: chiefly "Peregrine Pickle", Howard Swazey Buck, Philip Hamilton, Yale university press, 1925...	The Tempering

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