Title: Yale Series of Younger Poets Content: The Yale Series of Younger Poets is a yearly event of Yale University Press to print the first book of poems by a new American poet. It began in 1919. It is the longest-running yearly literary award in the United States. Each year, the Younger Poets Competition accepts books from American poets who have not yet published a book of poetry. Once the judge chooses a winner, that book is printed as the next book in the series. All poems must be original. Only one book may be entered at a time. Winners get a $1,000 advance payment and a contract to publish their book. They also get one of the five writing fellowships at The James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. There they will have a furnished living space and daily access to James Merrill’s apartment. This gives the writer a quiet place to work on a literary or academic project. ==Judges== *Present: Rae Armantrout *2011 – 2020: Carl Phillips *2003 – 2010: Louise Glück *1997 – 2003: W. S. Merwin *1990 – 1996: James Dickey *1983 – 1989: James Merrill *1977 – 1982: Richard Hugo *1969 – 1976: Stanley Kunitz *1958 – 1968: Dudley Fitts *1946 – 1958: W. H. Auden *1942 – 1945: Archibald MacLeish *1933 – 1942: Stephen Vincent Benét *1925 – 1932: William Alexander Percy *1923 – 1924: Edward Bliss Reed *1923: Frederick E. Pierce *1919 – 1923: Charlton M. Lewis ==Winners== *2022 – Mary-Alice Daniel, Mass for Shut-Ins *2021 – Robert Wood Lynn, Mothman Apologia *2020 – Desiree C. Bailey, What Noise Against the Cane *2019 – Jill Osier, The Solace Is Not the Lullaby *2018 – Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water *2017 – Duy Doan, We Play a Game *2016 – Airea D. Matthews, Simulacra *2015 – Noah Warren, The Destroyer in the Glass *2014 – Ansel Elkins, Blue Yodel *2013 – Eryn Green, Eruv *2012 – Will Schutt, Westerly *2011 – Eduardo Corral, Slow Lightning *2010 – Katherine Larson, Radial Symmetry *2009 – Ken Chen, Juvenilia *2008 – Arda Collins, It Is Daylight *2007 – Fady Joudah, The Earth in the Attic *2006 – Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft *2005 – Jay Hopler, Green Squall *2004 – Richard Siken, Crush *2003 – Peter Streckfus, The Cuckoo *2002 – Loren Goodman, Famous Americans *2001 – Sean Singer, Discography *2000 – Maurice Manning, Lawrence Booth’s Book Of Visions *1999 – Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule *1998 – Craig Arnold, Shells *1996- Talvikki Ansel, My Shining Archipelago *1995 – Ellen Hinsey, Cities of Memory *1994 – Tony Crunk, Living in The Resurrection *1993 – Valerie Wohlfield, Thinking The World Visible *1992 – Jody Gladding, Stone Crop *1991 – Nicholas Samaras, Hands of The Saddlemaker *1990 – Christiane Jacox Kyle, Bears Dancing in the Northern Air *1989 – Daniel Hall, Hermit with Landscape *1988 – Thomas Bolt, Out of The Woods *1987 – Brigit Pegeen Kelly, To The Place of Trumpets *1986 – Julie Agoos, Above The Lands *1985 – George Bradley, Terms To Be Met *1984 – Pamela Alexander, Navigable Waterways *1983 – Richard Kenney, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird *1982 – Cathy Song, Picture Bride *1981 – David Wojahn, Icehouse Lights *1980 – John Bensko, Green Soldiers *1979 – William Virgil Davis, One Way to Reconstruct The Scene *1978 – Leslie Ullman, Natural Histories *1977 – Bin Ramke, The Difference Between Night and Day *1976 – Olga Broumas, Beginning with O *1975 – Carolyn Forché, Gathering The Tribes *1974 – Maura Stanton, Snow on Snow *1973 – Michael Ryan, Threats Instead of Trees *1972 – Robert Hass, Field Guide *1971 – Michael Casey, Obscenities *1970 – Peter Klappert, Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket *1969 – Hugh Seidman, Collecting Evidence *1968 – Judith Johnson Sherwin, Uranium Poems *1967 – Helen Chasin, Coming Close and Other Poems *1966 – James Tate, The Lost Pilot *1964 – Jean Valentine, Dream Barker *1963 – Peter Davison, The Breaking of the Day *1962 – Sandra Hochman, Manhattan Pastures *1961 – Jack Gilbert, Views of Jeopardy *1960 – Alan Dugan, Poems *1959 – George Starbuck, Bone Thoughts *1958 – William Dickey, Of The Festivity *1957 – John Hollander, A Crackling of Thorns *1956 – James Wright, The Green Wall *1955 – John Ashbery, Some Trees *1953 – Daniel Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Whales *1952 – Edgar Bogardus, Various Jangling Keys *1951 – W. S. Merwin, A Mask for Janus *1950 – Adrienne Rich, A Change of World *1948 – Rosalie Moore, The Grasshopper’s Man and Other Poems *1947 – Robert Horan, A Beginning *1946 – Joan Murray, Poems *1945 – Eve Merriam, Family Circle *1944 – Charles E. Butler, Cut Is the Branch *1943 – William Meredith, Love Letters from an Impossible Land *1941 – Margaret Walker, For My People *1940 – Jeremy Ingalls, The Metaphysical Sword *1939 – Norman Rosten, Return Again, Traveler *1938 – Reuel Denney, The Connecticut River and Other Poems *1937 – Joy Davidman, Letter to a Comrade *1936 – Margaret Haley, The Gardener Mind *1935 – Edward Weis Miller, The Deer Come Down *1934 – Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight *1933 – James Agee, Permit Me Voyage *1932 – Shirley Baker, The Dark Hills Under *1931 – Paul Engle, Worn Earth *1930 – Dorothy Belle Flanagan (aka Dorothy B. Hughes) – Dark Certainty *1929 – Louise Owen, Virtuosa *1928 – Henri Faust, Half-Light and Overture; Frances M. Frost, Hemlock Wall *1927 – Francis Claiborne Mason, This Unchanging Mask; Ted Olson, A Stranger and Afraid; Mildred Bowers, Twist o’ Smoke *1926 – Lindley Williams Hubbell, Dark Pavilion *1925 – Thomas Hornsby Ferril, High Passage; Eleanor Slater, Quest *1924 – Dorothy E. Reid, Coach into Pumpkin *1923 – Elizabeth Jessup Blake, Up and Down *1922 – Beatrice E. Harmon, Mosaics; Marion M. Boyd, Silver Wands; Amos Niven Wilder, Battle-Retrospect; Dean B. Lyman, Jr., The Last Lutanist *1921 – Paul Tanaquil, Attitudes; Barnard Raymund, Hidden Waters; Medora C. Addison, Dreams and a Sword; Harold Vinal, White April *1920 – Oscar Williams, Golden Darkness; Hervey Allen, Wampum and Old Gold; Viola C. White, Horizons; Theodore H. Banks, Jr., Wild Geese *1919 – Darl MacLeod Boyle, Where Lilith Dances; Thomas Caldecot Chubb, The White God and Other Poems; Alfred Raymond Bellinger, Spires and Poplars; David Osborne Hamilton, Four Gardens *1918 – John C. Farrar, Forgotten Shrines; Howard Buck, The Tempering