List Of Poetry Awards
This is a list of awards that are, or have been, given out to writers of poetry, either for a specific poem, collection of poems, or body of work.
This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of poetry awards; rather, it is a list of those awards which have entries on Wikipedia.
Read more about List Of Poetry Awards: Major International Awards, Africa, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Germany, India, Ireland, Korea, New Zealand, Spanish (language), United Kingdom, United States
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