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September 12, 2013
Academy of American Poets Prizes
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce its annual series of poetry prizes. This year, the organization has awarded over $200,000 to poets at various stages of their careers.
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$100,000 for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry
Nominated and elected by the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors
Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times
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$25,000 for distinguished poetic achievement
Nominated and elected by the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors
Credit: Don J. Usner
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$25,000 for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year
2013 Recipient: Patricia Smith's Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press, 2012)
Judges: Cornelius Eady, Claudia Emerson, and Gregory Orr
Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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$5,000 for an outstanding second book of poetry
2013 Recipient: Jillian Weise's The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions, 2013)
Judges: Jeffrey McDaniel, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Susan Wheeler
Credit: Guillermo Morizot Hires
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$25,000 and a residency at the American Academy in Rome for a forthcoming translation of modern Italian poetry into English
For his forthcoming translation of Selected Poems by Lorenzo Calogero
Judges: Barbara Carle, Victoria Surliuga, and Anthony Julian Tamburri
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$1,000 recognizing a published translation of poetry from any language into English
2013 Recipients: Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais's translation of
Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy's Fortino Samano (The Overflowing of the Poem) (Omnidawn, 2012)
Credits: Hogue, University of Arizona Poetry Center; Gallais, Lesley Poteet
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The following awards were announced earlier this year:
Walt Whitman Award
First-book publication, $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center for an American who has not yet published a book of poetry
The Academy of American Poets sponsors over 200 annual college prizes, distributing close to $25,000 each year to young poets.
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The recipients will be honored at the Poets Award Ceremony, presented by the Academy of American Poets as part of the annual Poets Forum.The event is free and open to the public.
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