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Eighth Edition, 1989-1998

The Academy of American Poets established its University and College Poetry Prize program in 1955 at ten schools. The Academy now sponsors more than 200 annual prizes for poetry at colleges and universities nationwide, and has awarded more than $350,000 to nearly 10,000 student poets since the program's inception.

Many of America's most esteemed poets won their first recognition through an Academy College Prize, including Diane Ackerman, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Tess Gallagher, Louise Gluck, Allen Grossman, Jorie Graham, Kimiko Hahn, Joy Harjo, Robert Hass, Li-Young Lee, Brad Leithauser, J. D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, Gregory Orr, Robert Pinsky, Sylvia Plath, Mark Rudman, Mary Jo Salter, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, George Starbuck, Mark Strand, and Charles Wright.

For this anthology, Academy Chancellor Heather McHugh has selected 109 poems from among ten years of contest winners, including Carl Phillips, Larissa Szporluk, and David Gewanter.

To receive information about endowing a college prize, please contact the Academy at academy@poets.org. Format: Paperback

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