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WALT WHITMAN AWARD FOR POETRY
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WALT WHITMAN AWARD FOR POETRY
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| The Walt Whitman Award, sponsored by The Academy of American Poets, brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry. The winning manuscript, chosen by an eminent poet, is published by Louisiana State University Press. The Academy purchases more than 8,000 copies of the book for distribution to its members. The Award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book. |
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| 2003 | Tony Tost | Invisible Bride |
| 2002 | Sue Kwock Kim | Notes from the Divided Country |
| 2001 | John Canaday | The Invisible World |
| 2000 | Ben Doyle | Radio, Radio |
| 1999 | Judy Jordan | Carolina Ghost Woods |
| 1998 | Jan Heller Levi | Once I Gazed at You in Wonder |
| 1997 | Barbara Ras | Bite Every Sorrow |
| 1996 | Joshua Clover | Madonna anno domini |
| 1995 | Nicole Cooley | Resurrection |
| 1994 | Jan Richman | Because the Brain Can be Talked into Anything |
| 1993 | Alison Hawthorne Deming | Science and Other Poems |
| 1992 | Stephen Yenser | The Fire in All Things |
| 1991 | Greg Glazner | From the Iron Chair |
| 1990 | Elaine Terranova | The Cult of the Right Hand |
| 1989 | Martha Hollander | The Game of Statues |
| 1988 | April Bernard | Blackbird Bye Bye |
| 1987 | Judith Baumel | The weight of Numbers |
| 1986 | Chris Llewellyn | Fragments from the Fire |
| 1985 | Christianne Balk | Blindweed |
| 1984 | Eric Pankey | For the New Year |
| 1983 | Christopher Gilbert | Across the Mutual Landscape |
| 1982 | Anthony Petrosky | Jurgis Petraskas |
| 1981 | Alberto Rios | Whispering to Fool the Wind |
| 1980 | Jared Carter | Work, for the Night is Coming |
| 1979 | David Bottoms | Shooting Rats at the Bibb County |
| 1978 | Karen Snow | Wonders |
| 1977 | Lauren Shakely | Guilty Bystander |
| 1976 | Laura Gilpin | The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe |
| 1975 | Reg Saner | Climbing into the Roots |
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