Poetry Prizes and Fellowships
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Prizes and Fellowships | Bobbitt National Prize | Witter Bynner Fellowships
Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize
Applications for the 2012 prize are now being accepted (this prize is awarded biennially). Please review the rules for submission and download the entry form below. All entries must be postmarked by June 15, 2012 in order to meet the deadline.
- 2012 rules for submission of entries [PDF]
- 2012 entry form [PDF, fill-in form]
Past Winners
- 2010: Lucia Perillo for Inseminating the Elephant
- 2008: Charles Wright for Lifetime Achievement and Bob Hicok for This Clumsy Living
- 2006: W.S. Merwin for Present Company
- 2004: B.H. Fairchild for Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
- 2002: Alice Fulton for Felt
- 2000: David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
- 1998: Frank Bidart for Desire
- 1996: Kenneth Koch for One Train
- 1994: A.R. Ammons for Garbage
- 1992: Louise Glück for Ararat and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life
- 1990: James Merrill for The Inner Room
