The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press.
The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and author of short stories and former vice-president of the society. The award is a prize of $500.
Winners 2026 Diana Arterian Agrippina the Younger, Judge: Alan Gilbert 2025 Philip Metres, Fugitive/Refuge, Judge: David Baker 2024 Elizabeth Arnold, Wave House, Brian Teare, Poem Bitten by a Man, Judge: Daisy Fried 2023 Kathy Fagan, Bad Hobby, Judge: Craig Morgan 2022 Patrick Rosal, The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, Judge: Erika Meitner 2021 Khadijah Queen, Anodyne, Judge: Dara Barrois/Dixon 2020 Martha Collins, Because What Else Could I Do, Judge: Alice Fulton 2019 G. C. Waldrep, feast gently, Judge: Laura Kasischke 2018 Jennifer Chang, Some Say the Lark, Judge: Paisley Rekdal 2017 Monica Youn, Blackacre, Judge: Robin Coste Lewis 2016 Brandon Shimoda, Evening Oracle, Judge: Katie Peterson 2015 Jennifer Moxley, The Open Secret, Judge: Ange Mlinko 2014 Ron Padgett, Collected Poems, Judge: Thomas Lux 2013 Naomi Replansky, Collected Poems, Judge: B. H. Fairchild 2012 Bruce Smith, Devotions, Judge: Elizabeth Macklin 2011 Mary Ruefle, Selected Poems, Judge: Rodney Jones 2010 Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices, Judge: Lynn Emanuel 2009 Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems, Judge: James Longenbach 2008 Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems, Judge: Ron Silliman 2007 Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist, Judge: Tony Hoagland 2006 Brenda Hillman, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Judge: Marjorie Welish 2004 Anthony Butts, Little Low Heaven, Judge: Lucie Brock-Broido 2003 Gary Young, No Other Life, Judge: Angela Jackson 2002 Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn Kizer 2001 Ralph J. Mills, Grasses Standing: Selected Poems, Judge: Fanny Howe 2000 Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour Judge: Jean Valentine 1999 B.H. Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe, Judge: Garrett Hongo 1998 John Balaban, Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems, Judge: Robert Phillips 1995 Cyrus Cassells, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting 1994 David Ray, Wool Highways 1992 Louise Glück, The Wild Iris 1990 Safiya Henderson-Holmes, Madness and a Bit of Hope 1989 Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987 1987 Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour 1980 Robert Hass, Praise 1979 David Ray, The Tramp's Cup 1978 David Lincoln Fisher, Teachings, Judges: Josephine Miles, Louis Simpson, and Reed Whittemore
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See also American poetry List of poetry awards List of literary awards List of years in poetry List of years in literature