Apply to join a small cohort of students in an advanced poetry workshop with acclaimed poet Kazim Ali, meeting four Tuesdays, November 10 through December 1, 6:30–8:30 p.m. ET via Zoom. Accepted students will workshop their poetry, receiving feedback and offering critique in a small group setting. Most successful applicants will have some prior experience studying poetry and will have published one or more poems in an online or print literary journal. The cost for non-members to enroll is $395. Members take 10% off.

How to Apply 

Manuscripts of poetry, five pages in length, will be accepted via Submittable. If sending multiple poems, each new poem should begin on a new page. Accepted students should plan to share works in progress with their cohort ahead of the workshop start date, with the option to workshop the poetry they applied with.

Applicants will be notified of a decision on or before October 31. Accepted students will be asked to enroll promptly or decline their offer so that a spot can be opened for a waitlisted student. 

Scholarships 

Two scholarships will be awarded. To be considered for a scholarship, check the appropriate box in Submittable and include a short Statement of Need in your application. Students seeking aid will not be considered for unfunded spots.

For a short poem, no longer than 16 lines.    

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are free for Poetry Society of America members. 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 anywhere in the submission document, 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 the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or the 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.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

JUDGE

Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and Tap Out (2019). He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the Hawthornden Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Oxford American, and American Poetry Review. He splits his time between Baltimore and Richmond, where he teaches in the MFA program at VCU. 

For a lyric poem on any subject. 

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are free for Poetry Society of America members. 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 anywhere in the submission document, 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 the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or the 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.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

 JUDGE

Bianca Stone is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont’s poet laureate. Stone is the author of many books, including the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite, which received the 2022 Vermont Book Award, and The Near and Distant World. In 2013, she co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit Ruth Stone House, where she organizes events and retreats, teaches classes on poetry and poetic study, and hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast.

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.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

JUDGE

Armen Davoudian is the author of The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House, 2024), which won the Northern California Book Award in Poetry and was long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He is also the translator, from Persian, of Nabood by Fatemeh Shams (Copper Canyon Press, forthcoming Spring 2027). He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and lives in Berkeley, California.

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 free for Poetry Society of America members. 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 anywhere in the submission document, 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 the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or the 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.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

 JUDGE

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s most recent book is Children of the Land: A Memoir (HarperCollins, 2020). He is also the author of Cenzontle, which was named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. His first chapbook, Dulce, was the winner of the Drinking Gourd Prize published by Northwestern University Press. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign, he was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. He lives in Northern California, where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program.

For a prose poem.      

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are free for Poetry Society of America members. 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 anywhere in the submission document, 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 the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or the 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.
• Collaborative poems are not eligible.
• 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.  
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

JUDGE

Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow. He is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award and has received both a Kenyon Review Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Wilson’s book Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love was recognized by The New York Times as a best new book of poetry.

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

GUIDELINES 

• Awards are free for Poetry Society of America members. 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 anywhere in the submission document, 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.
• Collaborative poems are not eligible.
• 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.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

JUDGE

Derrick Austin is the author of Elegance (BOA Editions, 2026), Tenderness (2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and Trouble the Water (2016), selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His debut collection was honored as a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and the Norma Faber First Book Award. 

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 free for Poetry Society of America members. 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 anywhere in the submission document, 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.
• Collaborative poems are not eligible.
• 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.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

JUDGE

Sandra Simonds, an award-winning writer and professor, is the author ​of numerous collections of poetry, including Burning Oracle​ (Wesleyan University Press​), Triptychs (Wave Books, 2022), which was a 2022 New York Times selection. Her awards include the University of Akron Poetry Prize for Further Problems with Pleasure, chosen by Carmen Giménez, and the Cleveland State University Open Poetry Prize for Mother Was a Tragic Girl. Her first novel, Assia (Noemi Press), based on the life of Assia Wevill, won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Fiction and was shortlisted for the Dzanc Fiction Prize. 

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 20-25 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.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

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, including in the file name.

JUDGES

Idra Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. Her most recent novel, Take What You Need, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and chosen as a Barnes & Noble Fiction Pick. Take What You Need was also named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, Today, and Yiyun Li's Author Pick at The Guardian. Her first novel Ways to Disappear was a finalist for the L.A. Times First Fiction Prize and a winner of the 2016 Brooklyn Public Library Prize and the Sami Rohr Prize. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages. Her works as a translator include Clarice Lispector’s novel The Pas­sion Accord­ing to G.H. and a co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian, Lean Against This Late Hour, a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Prize in 2021. She teaches in Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program.

Matthew Shenoda is a writer, professor, and author and editor of several books. His debut collection of poems, Somewhere Else (Coffee House Press), was named one of 2005's debut books of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine and was the winner of a 2006 American Book Award. He is also the author of Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (BOA Editions Ltd.), editor of Duppy Conqueror: New & Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes, author of Tahrir Suite: Poems (Northwestern University Press), winner of the 2015 Arab American Book Award, editor of Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (Northwestern University Press, 2017), and author of The Way of the Earth (Northwestern University Press, 2022). His latest book, Holdings, is forthcoming from Knopf in April 2027.

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

GUIDELINES 

• You can only submit one entry per student.
• Teachers or administrators may submit an unlimited number of their students' poems, one submission per student.
• A poem that has previously won a PSA Award cannot be resubmitted.
• No previously published work can be submitted.
• Translations are ineligible.
• Poems by more than one author will not be accepted.
• All entries must be sent though Submittable.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.
• Works that are written, either wholly or partially,​ ​using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.

 A SINGLE POEM 

• The fee is $5 for this award.

 MULTIPLE POEMS FROM A TEACHER 

• The fee is $20 for this award.

JUDGE

Erin Marie Lynch is the author of Removal Acts (Graywolf Press, 2023). Her writing appears in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, POETRY, New England Review, DIAGRAM, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. 

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 completed in the previous year that combines poetry with another 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 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 interdisciplinary dialogue rather than on the creation of a new work are not eligible.  

The finished work should have been produced or published in 2026, 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)
• Place ALL files in a folder named: YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME_Anna Rabinowitz Prize

JUDGE

Kate Colby is the author of Paradoxx and Unbecoming Behavior, among other books of poetry and prose. Fruitlands won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007, and she has received other awards and support from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, and the T.S. Eliot Foundation. She lives in Providence, where she teaches poetry at UPenn and is a member of Red Nun Collective.