William Carlos Williams Award

The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press.

The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and author of short stories and former vice-president of the society.^[1] The award is a "purchase prize" of $500 to $1000.

Winners

2023 Kathy Fagan, Bad Hobby, Judge: Craig Morgan
2022 Patrick Rosal, The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, Judge: Erika Meitner
2021 Khadijah Queen, Anodyne, Judge: Dara Barrois/Dixon
2020 Martha Collins, Because What Else Could I Do, Judge: Alice Fulton
2019 G. C. Waldrep, feast gently, Judge: Laura Kasischke
2018 Jennifer Chang, Some Say the Lark, Judge: Paisley Rekdal
2017 Monica Youn, Blackacre, Judge: Robin Coste Lewis
2016 Brandon Shimoda, Evening Oracle, Judge: Katie Peterson
2015 Jennifer Moxley, The Open Secret, Judge: Ange Mlinko
2014 Ron Padgett, Collected Poems, Judge: Thomas Lux
2013 Naomi Replansky, Collected Poems, Judge: B. H. Fairchild^[2]
2012 Bruce Smith, Devotions, Judge: Elizabeth Macklin
2011 Mary Ruefle, Selected Poems, Judge: Rodney Jones
2010 Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices, Judge: Lynn Emanuel
2009 Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems, Judge: James Longenbach
2008 Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems, Judge: Ron Silliman
2007 Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist, Judge: Tony Hoagland
2006 Brenda Hillman, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Judge: Marjorie Welish
2004 Anthony Butts, Little Low Heaven, Judge: Lucie Brock-Broido
2003 Gary Young, No Other Life, Judge: Angela Jackson
2002 Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn Kizer
2001 Ralph J. Mills, Grasses Standing: Selected Poems, Judge: Fanny Howe
2000 Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour Judge: Jean Valentine
1999 B.H. Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe, Judge: Garrett Hongo
1998 John Balaban, Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems, Judge: Robert Phillips
1995 Cyrus Cassells, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
1994 David Ray, Wool Highways
1992 Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
1990 Safiya Henderson-Holmes, Madness and a Bit of Hope ^[3]
1989 Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987
1987 Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour
1980 Robert Hass, Praise
1979 David Ray, The Tramp's Cup
1978 David Lincoln Fisher, Teachings, Judges: Josephine Miles, Louis Simpson, and Reed Whittemore