The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a literary award in the United States for an English language book of poetry. From 1986 to 2001, the prize was a first-book award called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Winners had their poetry book published under the auspices of the award, and 16 were published from 1986 to 2001 with support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation and alumnae of Barnard College. Beacon Press was the publisher.[1]
A 2000 essay in the Chicago Review named this prize as one of two examples (along with the Yale Series of Younger Poets) of "first-book awards of notable integrity".[2]
In 2003, Women Poets at Barnard, in collaboration with W.W. Norton, inaugurated a new biennial book prize for the best second book by an American woman poet, expressing the view that "a second book more firmly establishes a poet".[3] It is awarded by Women Poets at Barnard and the publisher W.W. Norton & Company and includes publication of the poetry book and a free public poetry reading by the author at Barnard. [4]
Winners and judges
edit| Year | Winner | Book | Judge |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Brittany Perham | Double Portrait | Claudia Rankine |
| 2013 | Sandra Lim | The Wilderness | Louise Glück[4] |
| 2011 | Traci Brimhall | Our Lady of the Ruins | Carolyn Forché |
| 2009 | Sandra Beasley | I Was the Jukebox | Joy Harjo |
| 2007 | Lisa Williams | Woman Reading to the Sea | Joyce Carol Oates |
| 2006 | Cathy Park Hong | Dance Dance Revolution | Adrienne Rich |
| 2005 | Julie Sheehan | Orient Point | Billy Collins |
| 2004 | Tessa Rumsey | The Return Message | |
| 2003 | Rebecca Wolff | Figment | |
| 2001 | Lise Goett | Waiting for the Paraclete[5] | |
| 2000 | Sharan Strange | Ash | Sonia Sanchez |
| 1999 | Christine Hume | Musica Domestica | Heather McHugh |
| 1998 | Jenna Osman | The Character | Lyn Hejinian |
| 1997 | Larissa Szporluk | Dark Sky Question | Brenda Hillman |
| 1996 | Harriet Levin | The Christmas Show[6] | Eavan Boland |
| 1995 | Reetika Vazirani | White Elephants | Marilyn Hacker |
| 1994 | Joyce Sutphen | Straight Out of View | |
| 1993 | Donna Masini | That Kind of Danger | Mona Van Duyn |
| 1992 | Ruth Foreman | We Are the Young Magicians | Cherrie Maraga |
| 1991 | Frances McCue | The Stenographer's Breakfast | Colleen J. McElroy |
| 1990 | Dorothy Barresi | All of the Above | Olga Broumas |
| 1989 | Barbara Jordan | Channel | Molly Peacock |
| 1988 | Mary B. Campbell | The World, The Flesh, and angels | Carolyn Forché |
| 1987 | Elizabeth Socolow | Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton | Marie Ponsot |
| 1986 | Patricia Storace | Heredity | Louise Bernikow |
References
edit- ^ "Women Poets", Barnard College Department of English (accessed 2014-05-15).
- ^ Geoffrey Treacle, "Cultural Capital"[dead link], Chicago Review, March 22, 2000.
- ^ Karen W. Arenson, "Bulletin Board; The Second Book of Poetry", The New York Times, June 11, 2003.
- ^ a b Sandra Lim awarded 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize Barnard
- ^ Waiting for the Paraclete (review), Publishers Weekly, March 18, 2002.
- ^ "Harriet Levin", Philadelphia City Paper, June 19–26, 1997.