Poetry Society of America

Dante Micheaux of London won the 2019 Four Quartets Prize for his collection Circus (Indolent Books). Micheaux received $20,000. The finalists were Catherine Barnett of New York City for “Accursed Questions” from the collection Human Hours (Graywolf Press), and Meredith Stricker of Big Sur, California,

for anemochore (Newfound Press). The finalists each received $1,000. The annual award, cosponsored by the T. S. Eliot Foundation, is given for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in the United States during the previous year. Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Rosanna Warren judged. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set.

FROST MEDAL

Eleanor Wilner of Philadelphia won the 2019 Frost Medal. Wilner, whose most recent poetry collection, Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems 1975–2017, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in the fall, received $5,000. The annual award is given by the Poetry Society of America Board of Governors to recognize distinguished lifetime achievement in American poetry. There is no application process.

SHELLEY MEMORIAL AWARD

Carl R. Martin of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, won the 2019 Shelley Memorial Award. Martin, whose most recent poetry collection is Rogue Hemlocks (Fence Books, 2008), received $6,000. Vanesha Pravin and Srikanth Reddy judged. The annual award is given to a poet “selected with reference to his or her genius and need.” There is no application process. Poetry Society of America, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003.

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