Genre: Poetry
Raz-Shumaker Book Prizes
Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
What’s Left Out: The Poems That Haunt a Collection From the Outside

Every poetry collection has its “maybes” and “almosts,” the poems that didn’t make it to publication. A debut poet considers the poems that haunt a book from the outside.
Morse Code Poetry Contest
Terry J. Cox Poetry Award
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Five fellowships of $27,000 each are given annually to U.S. poets between the ages of 21 and 31.
Reflection: Twenty Years of Debut Poets

Since 2005, Poets & Writers Magazine has highlighted emerging poets in an annual feature on first poetry books. In celebration, we gathered a list of the 222 poets and their debut collections that have graced our pages.
Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Poetry Prize
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