The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet. It was founded in 1919.

Winners

Recent winners of the competition include:

• (1973) Field Guide, by Robert Hass
• (1976) Gathering the Tribes, by Carolyn Forché
• (1977) Beginning with O, by Olga Broumas
• (1980) One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, by William Virgil Davis
• (1983) Picture Bride, by Cathy Song
• (1987) Above the Land, by Julie Agoos
• (1989) Out of the Woods, by Thomas Bolt
• (1990) Hermit with Landscape, by Daniel Hall
• (1993) Stone Crop, by Jody Gladding
• (1994) Thinking the World Visible, by Valerie Wohlfeld
• (1996) Living in the Resurrection, by T. Crunk
• (1996) Cities of Memory, by Ellen Hinsey
• (1997) My Shining Archipelago, by Talvikki Ansel
• (1998) Shells, by Craig Arnold
• (1999) Ultima Thule, by Davis McCombs
• (2000) Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, by Maurice Manning
• (2001) Discography, by Sean Singer
• (2002) Famous Americans, by Loren Goodman
• (2003) The Cuckoo, by Peter Streckfus
• (2004) Crush, by Richard Siken

In earlier years, winners included James Agee, Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, William Meredith, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, John Hollander , and James Tate.

Reference

• The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998) edited by George Bradley

External links

• Information on the competition from Yale University Press