The Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize is offered annually to a previously-unpublished poet by the Wick Poetry Center, which is affiliated with Kent State University. Founded by Maggie Anderson and now administered by David Hassler, the prize awards the winner with $2,500 and publication of their first full-length book of poetry by the Kent State University Press.[1] The winner spends a week in residence at the Wick Poetry Center, the 112-year-old home of faculty emeritus May Prentice, giving master classes to university students and community members, culminating in a reading giving together with the competition's judge on the Kent State campus.[2][3]
| Tom and Stan Wick Poetry Prize | |
|---|---|
 Matthew Minicucci and Jane Hirshfield sign books after the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize reading event in Kent, Ohio. | |
| Awarded for | Literary excellence |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University |
| First awarded | 1995 |
| Website | Kent.edu/wick |
Recipients edit
- 2022: Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi; Tracy K. Smith, Judge
- 2021: How Blood Works by Ellene Glenn Moore; Richard Blanco, Judge
- 2020: On This Side of the Desert by Alfredo Aguilar; Natalie Diaz, judge
- 2019: The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach; Ellen Bass, judge
- 2018: Fugue Figure by Michael McKee Green; Khaled Mattawa, judge
- 2017: Even Years by Christine Gosnay; Angie Estes, judge
- 2016: hover over her by Leah Poole Osowski; Adrian Matejka, judge
- 2015: Translation by Matthew Minicucci; Jane Hirshfield, judge
- 2014: The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf; Mark Doty, judge
- 2013: West by Carolyn Creedon; Edward Hirsch, judge
- 2012: The Dead Eat Everything by Michael Mlekoday; Dorianne Laux, judge
- 2011: The Local World by Mira Rosenthal; Maggie Anderson, judge
- 2010: Visible Heavens by Joanna Solfrian; Naomi Shihab Nye, judge
- 2009: The Infirmary by Edward Mincus; Stephen Dunn, judge
- 2008: Far From Algiers by Djelloul Marbook; Toi Derricotte, judge
- 2007: Constituents of Matter by Anna Leahy; Alberto Rios, judge
- 2006: Intaglio by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis; Eleanor Wilner, judge
- 2005: Trying to Speak by Anele Rubin; Philip Levine, judge
- 2004: Rooms and Fields by Lee Peterson; Jean Valentine, judge
- 2003: The Drowned Girl by Eve Alexandra; C.K. Williams, judge
- 2002: Back Through Interruption by Kate Northrop; Lynn Emanuel, judge
- 2001: Paper Cathedrals by Morri Creech; Li-Young Lee, judge
- 2000: The Gospel of Barbeque by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Lucille Clifton, judge
- 1999: Beyond the Velvet Curtain by Karen Kovacik; Henry Taylor, judge
- 1998: The Apprentice of Fever by Richard Tayson; Marilyn Hacker, judge
- 1997: Intended Place by Rosemary Willey; Yusef Komunyakaa, judge
- 1996: Likely by Lisa Coffman; Alicia Suskin Ostriker, judge
- 1995: Already the World by Victoria Redel; Gerald Stern, judge
External links edit
References edit
- ^ Kano, Krista (April 22, 2019). "Local voices featured in Kent State's poetry book". Akron Beacon Journal.
- ^ Cameron, Gorman (September 20, 2017). "Poets applaud 2016 Wick Poetry Prize winner at reading, workshop". Kent Wired.
- ^ Farkas, Karen (September 25, 2014). "Poetry has a home at Kent State University". cleveland.com.