The New Criterion Poetry Prize
Since 2000 the magazine has been awarding its poetry prize to a poet for "a book-length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form".
These poets have won the prize; all have been published by Ivan R. Dee of Chicago:
- 2010: Ashley Anna McHugh, Into These Knots (ISBN 156663878X)
- 2009: William Virgil Davis, Landscape and Journey (ISBN 1566638399)
- 2008: Daniel Brown, Taking the Occasion (ISBN 1566638011),
- 2007: J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again (ISBN 1566638089); Judges: David Barber, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Hadas and David Yezzi
- 2006: Bill Coyle, The God of this World to His Prophet (ISBN 1566637104)
- 2005: Geoffrey Brock, Weighing Light (ISBN 1566636671); Judges: W. S. Di Piero, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Wetzsteon and David Yezzi
- 2003: Deborah Warren, Zero Meridian (ISBN 1566635969)
- 2002: Charles Tomlinson, Skywriting and other poems (ISBN 1566635411)
- 2001: Adam Kirsch, The Thousand Wells (ISBN 1566634512)
- 2000: Donald Petersen*, Early and Late: Selected poems (ISBN 1566633974)
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