Glascock Prize

The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College. The "invitation-only competition is sponsored by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets, including Sylvia Plath and James Merrill, among its past winners"  and is thought to be the "oldest intercollegiate poetry competition."

The contest
Each year, about six young poets from the nation's top colleges and universities are selected to participate. After being selected, participants submit a brief manuscript of poems, which they read at a public reading during the culmination of the contest.

History
The annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest is named after Kathryn Irene Glascock. Glascock was a young poet who graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1922.

Glascock died in 1923.  Shortly after her death, Glascock's parents established the Glascock Prize. It became an intercollegiate event in 1924.

The Glascock Poetry Competition has launched the careers of many of America's most important poets including James Merrill who won in 1946 (and participated in 1938), Sylvia Plath who won in 1955, Kenneth Koch in 1948, Donald Hall who took second place in 1951 and Gjertrud Schnackenberg in 1973.

Other notable participants include Mark Halperin, Mary Jo Salter, Katha Pollitt, Mary Ann Radner, William Kunstler, James Agee and Frederick Buechner.

List of winners and participants

Select judges

Virginia Hamilton Adair
Léonie Adams
Kaveh Akbar
Elizabeth Alexander
A. R. Ammons
Mary-Kim Arnold
John Ashbery
W. H. Auden
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Leonard Bacon
Robert Bagg
Mary Jo Bang
Ari Banias
C.L. Barber
Phyllis Bartlett
William Rose Benet
April Bernard
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Martha Dickinson Bianchi
Frank Bidart
Elizabeth Bishop
W.W. Bison
Louise Bogan
Marie Borroff
Annie Boutelle
Gerald Warner Brace
Mrs. Marshall Bragdon
Anna Hempstead Branch
John Malcolm Brinnin
Howard Buck
Stephanie Burt
Witter Bynner
Henry Seidel Canby
Helen Chasin
Marilyn Chin
Franny Choi
John Ciardi
Amy Clampitt
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Billy Collins
Grace Conkling
Jane Cooper
Alfred Corn
Sidney E. Cox
Douglas Crase
Robert Gorham Davis
Fannie Stearns Davis
Erica Dawson
Sara de Ford
Oliver de la Paz
Thomas Del Vecchio
Babette Deutsch
Mark Doty
Alan Dugan
Richard Eberhart
Martín Espada
Rhina Espaillat
David Ferry
Arthur Davison Ficke
Rosamund Field
Donald Finkel
Dudley Fitts
Robert Fitzgerald
Wallace Fowlie
Robert Francis
Kimon Friar
Robert Frost
Elizabeth Hollister Frost
Kay Gabriel
Sarah Gambito
George Garrett
Dana Gioia
Rolland Greenwood
Eamon Grennan
Susan Griffin
Emily Grosholz
Marilyn Hacker
Pamela White Hadas
Rachel Hadas
Donald Hall
William Haller
Michael S. Harper
Jeffrey Harrison
Matthea Harvey
Seamus Heaney
Anthony Hecht
Daniel Hoffman
John Hollander
Margaret Holley
John Holmes
Anna Maria Hong
Richard Howard
Barbara Howes
Andrew Hudgins
Rolfe Humphries
Erica Hunt
Josephine Jacobsen
Donald Justice
Donika Kelly
X. J. Kennedy
Myung Mi Kim
Galway Kinnell
Karl Kirchwey
Carolyn Kizer
Kenneth Koch
Stanley Koehler
John Koethe
Maxine Kumin
Stanley Kunitz
Joseph Langland
Joseph O. Legaspi
David Lehman
Denise Levertov
Sarah Lindsay
Audre Lorde
John Livingston Lowes
Jay Macpherson
Dawn Lundy Martin
Cleopatra Mathis
Glyn Maxwell
Nathan McClain
J. D. McClatchy
Joshua Mehigan
William Morris Meredith Jr.
James Merrill
Edwin Valentine Mitchell
Marianne Moore
Stearns Morse
David Morton
Fred Moten
Edwin Muir
Paul Muldoon
Eileen Myles
Marilyn Nelson
Howard Nemerov
Hoa Nguyen
Diana O'Hehir
Ed Ochester
Alicia Ostriker
Curtis Hidden Page
Linda Pastan
Molly Peacock
John Peck
Joyce Peseroff
Carl Phillips
Robert Pinsky
Sylvia Plath
Katha Pollitt
Wyatt Printy
John Crowe Ransom
Jessie Rehder
Alastair Reid
Adrienne Rich
Jessie Rittenhouse
Florence Dunbar Robertson
Stephen Romer
Mary Jo Salter
Tony Sanders
May Sarton
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Grace Schulman
James Scully
Winnifred Wlles Shearer
Evie Shockley
Jane Shore 
Charles Simic
L. E. Sissman
Hallet D. Smith
Susan Snively
W. D. Snodgrass
Charles Wilbert Snow
Barry Spacks
Stephen Spender
Elizabeth Spires
Kathleen Spivack
Jane Springer
George Starbuck
Leonard, Stevens
Mark Strand
Roberta Teale Swartz
John L. Sweeney
Larissa Szporluk
Genevieve Taggard
Ridgely Torrence
John Updike
Jean Valentine
Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon
Mona Van Duyn
Peter Viereck
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Diane Wakoski
Derek Walcott
Andrews Wanning
Rosanna Warren
Deborah Warren
Theodore Weiss
Rachel Wetzsteon
George F. Whicher
Ruth Whitman
Richard Wilbur
Nancy Willard
William Carlos Williams
Greg Williamson
Ronaldo V. Wilson
Terri Witek
Baron Wormser
James Wright
John Yau
Cynthia Zarin

Preludes 
In 1973, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the contest, the English department of Mount Holyoke College published a collection of poems titled Preludes: Selected Poems from the Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest 1924-1973.

The collection included selected works from the first 50 years of the competition such as "The Black Swan" by James Merrill.

References

External links 
 Glascock Poetry Contest
Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize Records
75th Anniversary Celebration
List of participant and judge 1923-2018

American poetry awards

Mount Holyoke College
Awards established in 1924