Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition - Past Winners

Past Winners

This list is taken in part from The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998).

Volume Year Poet Title
107 2013 Will Schutt Westerly
106 2012 Eduardo C. Corral Slow Lightning
105 2011 Katherine Larson Radial Symmetry
104 2010 Ken Chen Juvenilia
103 2009 Arda Collins It is Daylight
102 2008 Fady Joudah The Earth in the Attic
101 2007 Jessica Fisher Frail-Craft
100 2006 Jay Hopler Green Squall
99 2005 Richard Siken Crush
98 2004 Peter Streckfus The Cuckoo
97 2003 Loren Goodman Famous Americans
96 2002 Sean Singer Discography
95 2001 Maurice Manning Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions
94 2000 Davis McCombs Ultima Thule
93 1999 Craig Arnold Shells
92 1997 Talvikki Ansel My Shining Archipelago
91 1996 Ellen Hinsey Cities of Memory
90 1995 Tony Crunk Living in the Resurrection
89 1994 Valerie Wohlfeld Thinking the World Visible
88 1993 Jody Gladding Stone Crop
87 1992 Nicholas Samaras Hands of the Saddlemaker
86 1991 Christiane Jacox Kyle Bears Dancing in the Northern Air
85 1990 Daniel Hall Hermit with Landscape
84 1989 Thomas Bolt Out of the Woods
83 1988 Brigit Pegeen Kelly To the Place of Trumpets
82 1987 Julie Agoos Above the Land
81 1986 George Bradley Terms to Be Met
80 1985 Pamela Alexander Navigable Waterways
79 1984 Richard Kenney The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
78 1983 Cathy Song Picture Bride
77 1982 David Wojahn Icehouse Lights
76 1981 John Bensko Green Soldiers
75 1980 William Virgil Davis One Way to Reconstruct the Scene
74 1979 Leslie Ullman Natural Histories
73 1978 Bin Ramke The Difference Between Night and Day
72 1977 Olga Broumas Beginning with O
71 1976 Carolyn Forché Gathering the Tribes
70 1975 Maura Stanton Snow on Snow
69 1974 Michael Ryan Threats Instead of Trees
68 1973 Robert Hass Field Guide
67 1972 Michael Casey Obscenities
66 1971 Peter Klappert Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket
65 1970 Hugh Seidman Collecting Evidence
64 1969 Judith Johnson Sherwin Uranium Poems
63 1968 Helen Chasin Coming Close and Other Poems
62 1967 James Tate The Lost Pilot
61 1965 Jean Valentine Dream Barker
60 1964 Peter Davison The Breaking of the Day
59 1963 Sandra Hochman Manhattan Pastures
58 1962 Jack Gilbert Views of Jeopardy
57 1961 Alan Dugan Poems
56 1960 George Starbuck Bone Thoughts
55 1959 William Dickey Of the Festivity
54 1958 John Hollander A Crackling of Thorns
53 1957 James Wright The Green Wall
52 1956 John Ashbery Some Trees
51 1954 Daniel Hoffman An Armada of Thirty Whales
50 1953 Edgar Bogardus Various Jangling Keys
49 1952 W. S. Merwin A Mask for Janus
48 1951 Adrienne Rich A Change of World
47 1949 Rosalie Moore The Grasshopper’s Man and Other Poems
46 1948 Robert Horan A Beginning
45 1947 Joan Murray Poems
44 1946 Eve Merriam Family Circle
43 1945 Charles E. Butler Cut Is the Branch
42 1944 William Meredith Love Letters from an Impossible Land
41 1942 Margaret Walker For My People
40 1941 Jeremy Ingalls The Metaphysical Sword
39 1940 Norman Rosten Return Again, Traveler
38 1939 Reuel Denney The Connecticut River and Other Poems
37 1938 Joy Davidman Letter to a Comrade
36 1937 Margaret Haley The Gardener Mind
35 1936 Edward Weismiller The Deer Come Down
34 1935 Muriel Rukeyser Theory of Flight
33 1934 James Agee Permit Me Voyage
32 1933 Shirley Barker The Dark Hills Under
31 1932 Paul Engle Worn Earth
30 1931 Dorothy Belle Flanagan (aka Dorothy B. Hughes) Dark Certainty
29 1930 Louise Owen Virtuosa
28 1929 Henri Faust Half-Light and Overture
27 1929 Frances M. Frost Hemlock Wall
26 1928 Francis Claiborne Mason This Unchanging Mask
25 1928 Ted Olson A Stranger and Afraid
24 1928 Mildred Bowers Twist o’ Smoke
23 1927 Lindley Williams Hubbell Dark Pavilion
22 1926 Thomas Hornsby Ferril High Passage
21 1926 Eleanor Slater Quest
20 1925 Dorothy E. Reid Coach into Pumpkin
19 1924 Elizabeth Jessup Blake Up and Down
18 1923 Beatrice E. Harmon Mosaics
17 1923 Marion M. Boyd Silver Wands
16 1923 Amos Niven Wilder Battle-Retrospect
15 1923 Dean B. Lyman, Jr. The Last Lutanist
14 1922 Paul Tanaquil Attitudes
13 1922 Bernard Raymund Hidden Waters
12 1922 Medora C. Addison Dreams and a Sword
11 1922 Harold Vinal White April
10 1921 Oscar Williams Golden Darkness
9 1921 Hervey Allen Wampum and Old Gold
8 1921 Viola C. White Horizons
7 1921 Theodore H. Banks, Jr Wild Geese
6 1920 Darl MacLeod Boyle Where Lilith Dances
5 1920 Thomas Caldecot Chubb The White God and Other Poems
4 1920 Alfred Raymond Bellinger Spires and Poplars
3 1920 David Osborne Hamilton Four Gardens
2 1919 John C. Farrar Forgotten Shrines
1 1919 Howard Buck The Tempering

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