Yale Series of Younger Poets

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 Gluck
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 Benet
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 Forche, 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
References
Literary awards