Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
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The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press
Yale University Press
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 aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American
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 poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

. 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
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
Manuscript
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 may be entered at a time.

The contest solidified its importance in American literature
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
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...

, 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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