For a short poem, no longer than 16 lines.    

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.
• The fee for non-members is $10 for this award.
• Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award. The exception: Individual poems submitted to Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.
• The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please withdraw the submission if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication.
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.

JUDGE

Suzanne Buffam is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently A Pillow Book, which The New York Times named one of the best books of poetry of 2016. Her work has appeared in Harpers, the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She teaches poetry at the University of Chicago.

For a narrative poem.    
 

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.
• The fee for non-members is $10 for this award.
• Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award. The exception: Individual poems submitted to Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.
• The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please withdraw the submission if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication.
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.

JUDGE

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019), which was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship, and received her MFA at NYU, where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program, and was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and chosen for The Best of the Net Anthology. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. From 2022-2024, she was the 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. In 2023, she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship to launch The Bread & Poetry Project. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence.  

For a lyric poem on any subject.     
 

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.
• The fee for non-members is $10 for this award.
• Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award. The exception: Individual poems submitted to Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.
• The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please withdraw the submission if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication.
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.

JUDGE

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and the author of two collections of poems, including, most recently, Promises of Gold, which was long-listed for the 2023 National Book Awards. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. Along with Felicia Rose Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he co-edited the poetry anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT. Alongside Antonio Salazar, he published the hybrid book, Por Siempre in 2023. He lives in Jersey City, NJ. 

For a prose poem.      

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.
• The fee for non-members is $10 for this award.
• Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award. The exception: Individual poems submitted to Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.
• The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please withdraw the submission if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication.
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.  

JUDGE

Kay Gabriel is a writer and organizer based in New York. She’s the author of A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat, 2023). With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). Her books have been nominated for Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle awards. She’s received fellowships from PEN America, Lambda Literary, The Poetry Project, and Princeton University, where she received her PhD in 2020. She’s performed for audiences at Performance Space, Small Press Traffic, Poetic Research Bureau, the Berlin poesiefestival, and Berkeley’s Lunch Poets series. Kay has taught courses at Princeton, NYU-Gallatin, Cooper Union, Wendy’s Subway, and the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library. Kay is the Editorial Director at The Poetry Project, where she edits the Poetry Project Newsletter.

For 10 pages of poetry from a manuscript-in-progress.      
 

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.
• The fee for non-members is $15 for this award.
• Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• Do not submit multiple poems per page. 
• Previously published poems are acceptable for this award. 
• If poems in your Alice Fay Di Castagnola submission have been previously published, you may upload a separate second acknowledgment document with this information. 
• Poems entered as part of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola manuscript may be entered individually in other PSA awards if they haven’t been previously published. 
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.
  
  

JUDGE

Geoffrey Nutter is originally from California and has lived in New York City for many years. He is the author of several books including Water's Leaves & Other Poems, Christopher Sunset, Cities at Dawn, and Giant Moth Perishes. Geoffrey's poems have been translated into French, Russian, Spanish, Mandarin, Romanian, and Turkish, among other languages. He currently teaches poetry at New York University. He is the founder and director of the Wallson Glass Poetry Seminars. 

For a selection of four or five poems that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in any of its forms.     

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.
• The fee for non-members is $15 for this award.
• Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award. The exception: Individual poems submitted to Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.
• The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please withdraw the submission if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication.
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.

JUDGE

Niki Herd is the author of The Stuff of Hollywood and The Language of Shedding Skin, as well as the chapbook _____ , don’t you weep. She coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry and essays appear in Poem-a-Day, Adroit, Poetry Daily, New England Review, Salon, and This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, and Cave Canem. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College.

For a manuscript of 10 pages by a mid-career poet who has not had substantial recognition.     

Open to poets 40 and over who have published no more than one full-length collection of poetry. Poets who have not published a book of poetry are also eligible.      

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.
• The fee for non-members is $15 for this award.
• Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• Do not submit multiple poems per page. 
• Previously published poems are acceptable for this award.
• If poems in your Robert H. Winner submission have been previously published, you may upload a separate second acknowledgment document with this information.
• Poems entered as part of the Robert H. Winner manuscript may be entered individually in other PSA awards if they haven’t been previously published. 
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.

JUDGE

Michael Dickman’s most recent book of poems is Pacific Power & Light (Knopf, 2024). His other books include Days & Days (Knopf, 2019); Green Migraine (Copper Canyon, 2016); 50 American Plays (Copper Canyon, 2012), co-authored with his twin brother, the poet Matthew Dickman; Flies (Copper Canyon, 2011), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and The End of the West (Copper Canyon, 2009). His many grants, fellowships, and residencies include honors from organizations such as the Michener Center for Writers, the Vermont Studio Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Lannan Foundation. He was awarded the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University for 2009-2010.

 Awarded for the best unpublished poem by a student in grades 9 through 12 from the United States.     

GUIDELINES 

• Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere.
• Only one entry per author.
• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award.
• The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please withdraw the submission if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.

 A SINGLE POEM 

• The fee is $5 for this award.

 MULTIPLE POEMS FROM A TEACHER 

• The fee is $20 for this award.

If you are a teacher submitting multiple poems, please upload all the poems in one document without any identifying information about the authors. In a second document, upload the following contact information for each entry: Poem Title, First Line, email address of author, and email address of teacher.  

JUDGE

Patrycja Humienik is the author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), selected as a New York Public Library Best New Poetry Book. An editor and teaching artist, Patrycja has developed writing and movement workshops for Arts+Literature Laboratory, The Seventh Wave, Northwest Film Forum, Henry Art Gallery, and in prisons. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere.

Note: If you are submitting hard copies of a book, chapbook, or other printed material, please visit our website for instructions.

The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work that was completed in the previous year and combines poetry with any other art or discipline.

Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry), as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math.

Candidates are required to provide materials documenting their projects. These will be key to the judging process. Panels, discussions, and programs focused on dialogue between disciplines rather than the creation of a new work are not eligible.
 

The finished work should have been produced or published in 2025, but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. All are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.
 

Prize: $1,000 to be divided equally among the principals if not awarded to a single artist.
 

SUBMISSION DETAILS & INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTABLE

If you are submitting digital documentation of a performance or artwork, please attach:

• Documentation of your work in the following formats: jpeg, pdf, mp3, mp4, or mpeg (as applicable).
• A PDF cover sheet which includes: Name, Address, Email, Phone, and Name of the Award.
• A PDF of your Artist Statement describing the aims of the work submitted (up to 500 words)
• A PDF of your Biographical Note (up to 500 words)

JUDGE

Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and her video work has been exhibited at Miller ICA. A Kundiman and MacDowell fellow, and member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s), Nguyen teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Randolph College and the University of Pittsburgh.

Open to any U.S. citizen or anyone currently living within the U. S. who has not published a full-length poetry collection.     

GUIDELINES

• The entry fee is $14.
• Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. This page count includes: title page, table of contents, and poems.
• Poems must be typed.
• No illustrations may be included.
• Multiple submissions are not accepted.
• Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, or advisory board committee members are ineligible.

SUBMITTING INFORMATION

You can upload two documents:

1) Acknowledgments, if any of the poems have been previously published. 

2) Your manuscript of poems which should include title page, table of contents, and poems.

• Personal identification cannot appear anywhere in the manuscript document

JUDGES

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering, and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found inn+1,The New Yorker,Ploughshares,The Believer, andBest American Essays 2019. Martin is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of African American Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetic

Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry. Information Desk: An Epic was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Schiff has received the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she coedits Canarium Books—an independent small press dedicated to publishing exceptional books of poetry. She is a professor at the University of Chicago, where she is Director of the Program in Creative Writing.