James_Laughlin_Award
The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book. The award is given by the Academy of American Poets, and is noted as one of the major prizes awarded to younger poets in the United States.[1] In 1959, Harvey Shapiro referred to the award as "roughly, a Pulitzer for bardlings."[2]
Main article: Academy of American Poets
This partial listing is taken from the website of the Academy of American Poets.[3]
For the first 20 years, a poet's first published volume was the annual Lamont Poetry Selection.
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- Beach, Christopher (1999). Poetic Culture. Northwestern University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8101-1678-8.
The vast majority of those winning the major awards for younger poets over the last two decades (Guggenheims, Lamont prizes, the National Poetry Series, for example) have held graduate degrees in creative writing.
- Shapiro, Harvey (August 9, 1959). "The Timbre of Three New Voices". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- "James Laughlin Award". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- "The Academy of American Poets Announces the Recipients of the 2020 American Poets Prizes". The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- Five Berkeley Authors Win Northern California Book Awards, Berkeley Daily Planet, April 30, 2009
- Archived December 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- Sharon Olds Receives Lamont Poetry Award New York Times, September 18, 1983