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The Eric Mathieu King Fund was established in 1995 to support the
publication of poetry books in the United States. As of November 1999, the Fund
is suspended indefinitely.
The Eric Mathieu King Fund provided grants of up to $3,000 to support
the publication of individual volumes of poetry at non-commercial presses.
Eligible projects included collections of original poetry, reprints of classic
works of American poetry or poetry criticism, poetry anthologies, and
translations of poetry from any language into English. First books of poetry
were not eligible for these grants, as such projects were covered by the
Greenwall Fund.
The Eric Mathieu King Fund was part of the Atlas Fund, an umbrella fund
established by the Academy in 1994 to provide financial assistance to
publishers of poetry. The Fund was named for Eric Mathieu King, a successful
businessman and supporter of the arts who believed that poetry has an
indispensable role to play in society as a direct, intimate means of
communication. Eric Mathieu King died on January 30, 1990, in a skiing accident
in the Canadian Rockies.
Winners:
| Year |
Author(s)/Editor(s) |
Title |
Publisher |
| 1996 |
Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris, trs. |
The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis |
Johns Hopkins
University Press |
| Allan Mandelbaum, tr. |
Selected Poems of Umberto Saba |
Sheep Meadow Press |
| Muriel Rukeyser |
The Life of Poetry |
Paris Press |
| Lucille Clifton |
The Terrible Stories |
BOA Editions,
Ltd. |
| James McMichael |
The World at Large: New and Selected
Poems |
University of
Chicago Press |
| Jean Grosjean, translated by Keith
Waldrop |
Elegies |
paradigm press |
| Anuradha Mahapatra, translated by Carolyne
Wright |
Another Spring, Darkness |
Calyx
Books |
| William Dickey |
The Education of Desire |
Wesleyan University Press |
| Ricardo Sanchez |
The Loves of Ricardo |
Tia Chucha Press |
| The fund also initiated three
multi-year grants of up to $5,000 per year to support the establishment of new
poetry series at Graywolf Press,
New Issues Press, and
University of South Carolina
Press. |
| 1997 |
Adrienne Su |
Middle Kingdom |
Alice James
Books |
| Adrian Castro |
Cantos of Blood and Honey |
Coffee House
Press |
| Thomas McGrath |
Letter to an Imaginary Friend |
Copper Canyon
Press |
| Dina Ben-Lev |
Broken Helix |
Mid-List
Press |
| Katherin McAlpine and Gail White, eds. |
The Muse Strikes Back: A Poetic Response by Women
to Men |
Story Line
Press |
| Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris,
eds. |
Poems for the Millennium, II |
University of
California Press |
| Karl Shapiro |
Selected Poems, 1940-1995 |
University of
Illinois Press |
| Kevin Bowen, Nguyen Ba Chung, and Bruce Weigl,
eds. |
Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the
Wars |
University of
Massachusetts Press |
| 1998 |
Michael Ruby |
At the Intersection |
Alef Books |
| Judith Skillman |
Storm |
Blue Begonia
Press |
| Franz Wright |
Encounter, 3 A.M. |
Oberlin College Press |
| Yvor Winters |
The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters |
Ohio University Press |
| Ruth Stone |
Ordinary Words |
Paris Press |
| Yu Xuanji, translated by David Young and Jiann I.
Lin |
The Clouds Float North |
Wesleyan
University Press |
| 1999 |
Doug Anderson |
Blues for Unemployed Secret Police |
Curbstone
Press |
| Daniela Crasnaru, translated by Adam J.
Sorkin |
Sea-Level Zero |
BOA Editions,
Ltd. |
| Tory Dent |
HIV, Mon Amour |
The Sheep Meadow Press |
| Lynn Emanuel |
She |
University of
Pittsburgh Press |
| David Ferry |
Of No Country I Know |
University of
Chicago Press |
| Afaa Michael Weaver |
Multitudes |
Sarabande
Books |
| An anthology of Mexican poetry
|
Copper Canyon
Press |
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