The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a major American literary award for a book of poetry in the English language.
From 1986-1999 the prize was called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. It debuted sixteen debut collections, supported by the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the generous alumnae of Barnard College, and published by Beacon Press.
In the new century, Women Poets at Barnard, in collaboration with W.W. Norton, inaugurated a new book prize for the best second book by an American woman poet.
Year | Winner | Book | Judge |
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2009 | Sandra Beasley | I Was the Jukebox | Joy Harjo |
2007 | Lisa Williams | Woman Reading to the Sea | Joyce Carol Oates |
2006 | Cathy Park Hong | Dance Dance Revolution | Adrienne Rich |
2005 | Julie Sheehan | Orient Point | Billy Collins |
2004 | Tessa Rumsey | The Return Message | |
2003 | Rebecca Wolff | Figment | |
2000 | Sharan Strange | Ash | Sonia Sanchez |
1999 | Christine Hume | Musica Domestica | |
1998 | Jenna Osman | The Character | Lyn Hejinian |
1997 | Larissa Szporluk | Dark Sky Question | Brenda Hillman |
1995 | Reetika Vazirani | White Elephants | Marilyn Hacker |
1994 | Joyce Sutphen | Straight Out of View | |
1993 | Donna Masini | That Kind of Danger | Mona Van Duyn |
1992 | Ruth Foreman | We Are the Young Magicians | Cherrie Maraga |
1991 | Frances McCue | The Stenographer's Breakfast | Colleen J. McElroy |
1990 | Dorothy Barresi | All of the Above | Olga Broumas |
1989 | Barbara Jordan | Channel | Molly Peacock |
1988 | Mary B. Campbell | The World, The Flesh, and angels | Carolyn Forché |
1987 | Elizabeth Socolow | Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton | Marie Ponsot |
1986 | Patricia Storace | Heredity | Louise Bernikow |
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