The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a literary award in the United States for an English language book of poetry. From 1986 to 2001, the prize was a first-book award called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Winners had their poetry book published under the auspices of the award, and 16 were published from 1986 to 2001 with support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation and alumnae of Barnard College. Beacon Press was the publisher."Women Poets", Barnard College Department of English (accessed 2014-05-15).
A 2000 essay in the Chicago Review named this prize as one of two examples (along with the Yale Series of Younger Poets) of "first-book awards of notable integrity".Geoffrey Treacle, "Cultural Capital", Chicago Review, March 22, 2000.
In 2003, Women Poets at Barnard, in collaboration with W.W. Norton, inaugurated a new biennial book prize for the best second book by an American woman poet, expressing the view that "a second book more firmly establishes a poet".Karen W. Arenson, "Bulletin Board; The Second Book of Poetry", The New York Times, June 11, 2003. It is awarded by Women Poets at Barnard and the publisher W.W. Norton & Company and includes publication of the poetry book and a free public poetry reading by the author at Barnard.
Winners and judges Year Winner Book Judge 2016 Brittany Perham Double Portrait Claudia Rankine 2013 Sandra Lim The Wilderness Louise GlückSandra Lim awarded 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize Barnard 2011 Traci Brimhall Our Lady of the Ruins Carolyn Forché 2009 Sandra Beasley I Was the Jukebox Joy Harjo 2007 Lisa Williams Woman Reading to the Sea Joyce Carol Oates 2006 Cathy Park Hong Dance Dance Revolution Adrienne Rich 2005 Julie Sheehan Orient Point Billy Collins 2004 Tessa Rumsey The Return Message 2003 Rebecca Wolff Figment 2001 Lise Goett Waiting for the ParacleteWaiting for the Paraclete (review), Publishers Weekly, March 18, 2002. 2000 Sharan Strange Ash Sonia Sanchez 1999 Christine Hume Musica Domestica Heather McHugh 1998 Jenna Osman The Character Lyn Hejinian 1997 Larissa Szporluk Dark Sky Question Brenda Hillman 1996 Harriet Levin The Christmas Show, Philadelphia City Paper, June 19–26, 1997. Eavan Boland 1995 Reetika Vazirani White Elephants Marilyn Hacker 1994 Joyce Sutphen Straight Out of View 1993 Donna Masini That Kind of Danger Mona Van Duyn 1992 Ruth Foreman We Are the Young Magicians Cherrie Maraga 1991 Frances McCue The Stenographer's Breakfast Colleen J. McElroy 1990 Dorothy Barresi All of the Above Olga Broumas 1989 Barbara Jordan Channel Molly Peacock 1988 Mary B. Campbell The World, The Flesh, and angels Carolyn Forché 1987 Elizabeth Socolow Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton Marie Ponsot 1986 Patricia Storace Heredity Louise Bernikow
References
External links Barnard Women Poets Prize Homepage 1986-1992 List