Wick Poetry Prize

Tom and Stan Wick Poetry Prize
Tom and Stan Wick Poetry Prize
	Matthew Minicucci and Jane Hirshfield sign books after the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize reading event in Kent, Ohio.
Awarded for	Literary excellence
Country	United States
Presented by	Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University
First awarded	1995
Website	Kent.edu/wick

The Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize is offered annually to a previously-unpublished poet by the Wick Poetry Center, which is affiliated with Kent State University. Founded by Maggie Anderson and now administered by David Hassler, the prize awards the winner with $2,500 and publication of their first full-length book of poetry by the Kent State University Press.^[1] The winner spends a week in residence at the Wick Poetry Center, the 112-year-old home of faculty emeritus May Prentice, giving master classes to university students and community members, culminating in a reading giving together with the competition's judge on the Kent State campus.^[2]^[3]

Recipients

2022: Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi; Tracy K. Smith, Judge

2021: How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore; Richard Blanco, Judge

2020: On This Side of the Desert by Alfredo Aguilar; Natalie Diaz, judge

2019: The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach [Wikidata]; Ellen Bass, judge

2018: Fugue Figure by Michael McKee Green; Khaled Mattawa, judge

2017: Even Years by Christine Gosnay; Angie Estes, judge

2016: hover over her by Leah Poole Osowski; Adrian Matejka, judge

2015: Translation by Matthew Minicucci; Jane Hirshfield, judge

2014: The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf; Mark Doty, judge

2013: West by Carolyn Creedon; Edward Hirsch, judge

2012: The Dead Eat Everything by Michael Mlekoday; Dorianne Laux, judge

2011: The Local World by Mira Rosenthal; Maggie Anderson, judge

2010: Visible Heavens by Joanna Solfrian; Naomi Shihab Nye, judge

2009: The Infirmary by Edward Mincus; Stephen Dunn, judge

2008: Far From Algiers by Djelloul Marbook; Toi Derricotte, judge

2007: Constituents of Matter by Anna Leahy; Alberto Rios, judge

2006: Intaglio by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis; Eleanor Wilner, judge

2005: Trying to Speak by Anele Rubin; Philip Levine, judge

2004: Rooms and Fields by Lee Peterson; Jean Valentine, judge

2003: The Drowned Girl by Eve Alexandra; C.K. Williams, judge

2002: Back Through Interruption by Kate Northrop; Lynn Emanuel, judge

2001: Paper Cathedrals by Morri Creech; Li-Young Lee, judge

2000: The Gospel of Barbeque by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Lucille Clifton, judge

1999: Beyond the Velvet Curtain by Karen Kovacik; Henry Taylor, judge

1998: The Apprentice of Fever by Richard Tayson; Marilyn Hacker, judge

1997: Intended Place by Rosemary Willey; Yusef Komunyakaa, judge

1996: Likely by Lisa Coffman; Alicia Suskin Ostriker, judge

1995: Already the World by Victoria Redel; Gerald Stern, judge

External links

References

^ Kano, Krista (April 22, 2019). "Local voices featured in Kent State's poetry book". Akron Beacon Journal.
^ Cameron, Gorman (September 20, 2017). "Poets applaud 2016 Wick Poetry Prize winner at reading, workshop". Kent Wired.
^ Farkas, Karen (September 25, 2014). "Poetry has a home at Kent State University". cleveland.com.

[1] Kano, Krista (April 22, 2019). "Local voices featured in Kent State's poetry book". Akron Beacon Journal.

[2] Cameron, Gorman (September 20, 2017). "Poets applaud 2016 Wick Poetry Prize winner at reading, workshop". Kent Wired.

[3] Farkas, Karen (September 25, 2014). "Poetry has a home at Kent State University". cleveland.com.

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