80A Look Back at Our 80th YearFounded in 1934, the Academy of

American Poets today is the nation’s

largest member-supported organiza-

tion advocating for the importance

of poets and the art of poetry in our

culture. With Marie Bullock’s founding

vision, the leadership of the Board of

Directors and Board of Chancellors,

and contributions from our close to

eight thousand members, we now reach

tens of millions of individuals each year

through our programs, including Poets

.org; Poem-a-Day; Poets Forum; our

prizes; American Poets magazine; read-

ings, including Poetry & the Creative

Mind; and National Poetry Month.

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We are grateful to the generous donors who made this project possible, including members of our Board of Directors, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The new Poets.org prompted coverage in publications including Publishers Weekly and Poets & Writers Magazine, and generated positive

feedback for the beautiful presentation of poems, which are set in a newly restored version of a classic literary font now named Poets Electra. In addition to an ever-expanding, curated col-lection of thousands of poems, the new site has more audio and video of poets than ever before, highlights from our archives, and a special sec-tion for K–12 educators with new lesson plans, provided in part by 826 National and Teachers & Writers, being added regularly.

To build on our many-decades-long commit-ment to K–12 teachers, we created an honorary Educator-in-Residence position, currently held by Dr. Madeline Fuchs Holzer. In addition to strengthening the resources for educators on Poets.org, with Dr. Holzer’s help we have launched a new monthly newsletter for educators that is now read by more than 7,500 teachers.

For National Poetry Month in April 2014, we provided resources so teachers might celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day in their classrooms, and a signature education project that included videos—viewed twenty-five thousand times during April alone—featuring members of our Board of Chancellors. More than a thousand young people from across the United States participated in the project by writing poems and sending them to us.

Last year we also continued to develop our Poem-a-Day series, which is now syndicated by King Features, a division of Hearst Publications. In the past year, the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Slate, Washington Post, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, NPR, and PBS NewsHour shared poems

In 2014 we marked our eightieth year with the largest project we have undertaken in a decade: a complete rebranding and redesign of Poets.org— the world’s largest publicly supported website for poetry.

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from Poem-a-Day. In addition, the Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri is now running the daily series for its one hundred thousand–plus readers.

In November 2014, we surpassed one hun-dred thousand Poem-a-Day subscribers of our own, making our daily distribution of poems to readers across the United States and around the world the largest effort of its kind. The series has also enabled us to become a prominent publisher of poems, making hundreds of new poems by today’s many talented poets available to readers for the first time.

We organized a series of live events including six poetry readings during the summer—three at the New York Public Library, one at Parsons the New School for Design, one on Governors Island, and one at the Morgan Library—in addition to our weekend-long gathering in October, Poets Forum. In partnership with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., we launched We the Poets, a project that involved our commissioning poets to create work inspired by the Archives’ holdings. We also marked the loss of one of our great poets by helping to organize a reading at Cooper Union’s Great Hall memorializing Seamus Heaney, which more than one thousand people attended.

We presented our seven major American Poets Prizes to Brian Blanchfield; Luigi Bonaffini;

In the past eighty years, eight Chairmen have guided the organization.

We are grateful for their leadership.

Marie Bullock, Founder 1934–1986

evelyn Chase, Chairman emerita 1987–1994

Jonathan Galassi, Honorary Chairman 1994–1999

Henry Reath 1999–2001

paul Gottlieb 2002

Liza Bennett 2002–2005

eunice panetta 2005–2013

Michael Jacobs 2013–present

Special guest readers and presenters at Poetry & the Creative Mind 2014.

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Wendy Chen, who received the inaugural Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award; Rigoberto González; Robert Hass; W. S. Merwin; Hannah Sanghee Park; and Tracy K. Smith. Thanks to new partners, we announced that beginning in 2015, the winner of our first book prize, the Walt Whitman Award, will now receive a six-week residency at the Civitella Ran-ieri Foundation in the Umbria section of Italy, and his or her book will be published by Graywolf Press. We also honored two hundred talented student poets at colleges and universities across the country, whose poems were selected to receive our college poetry prizes.

Since our earliest days, the Academy of Ameri-can Poets has been advised by an honorary Board of Chancellors, comprising fifteen award-winning poets from across the United States. Having their feedback on our programs, their participation in our projects for students and our Poets Forum, and their leadership in judging our largest prizes for poets, is invaluable. This year we thanked three poets as they concluded their six years of service: Marilyn Hacker, Edward Hirsch, and Marie Ponsot. And we welcomed two new mem-bers to the Board of Chancellors: Khaled Mattawa and Alberto Ríos.

Our eightieth anniversary year was highlighted by our sold-out Poetry & the Creative Mind gala reading, held on April 24 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. This annual event celebrates the influence of poetry on readers from other disciplines, offering a look at poems from a variety of perspectives. More than 1,100 audi-ence members enjoyed poems presented by an all-star lineup: National Student Poet Michaela Coplen, Billy Crudup, Tina Fey, Kevin Kline, Juliana Margulies, Drew Nieporent, Rosie Perez, Parker Posey, Esperanza Spalding, Patrick Stewart, Meryl Streep, Carrie Mae Weems, and master of ceremonies Chip Kidd. The event was cov-ered by the Washington Post and People Maga-zine, among other publications, and NPR’s All Things Considered aired a selection for their more than one million listeners. _________________________________________________________________________ r

The Academy of American Poets is recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Donations to the Acad-emy of American Poets are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

For an overview of the Academy of American Poets’ operating income and expenses for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014, visit Poets.org. Copies of our full, audited financial statements are available by contacting the Academy of American Poets at (212) 274-0343 or membership@poets.org.

As a member of the Academy of American Poets, you are helping to grow the audience for today’s poets, celebrate artistic excellence, inspire the next generation of poets and readers, and advocate for the important place the art of poetry has in our culture. Thank you for being a vital part of our work in the year ahead.

Board & Leadership

DIRECTORSSusan Vartanian BarbaLiza BennettLarry BergerJohn Blondel, Jr.William CampbellJames C. CollinsMargaret H. Douglas-HamiltonThomas E. EngelPatricia GroddBruno NavaskyGeneva OverholserEunice J. PanettaRose StyronMaurice TempelsmanWilliam D. Zabel

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORJennifer Benka

Academy of American Poets

CHANCELLORSToi DerricotteMark DotyMarilyn HackerJuan Felipe HerreraEdward HirschJane HirshfieldMarilyn NelsonKhaled MattawaNaomi Shihab NyeMarie PonsotClaudia RankineAlberto RíosArthur SzeAnne WaldmanC. D. Wright

FOUNDERMarie Bullock

OFFICERS Michael Jacobs, ChairmanJennifer Benka, PresidentIan Kennedy, TreasurerHelen Houghton, Secretary

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Agnes Scott CollegeJanef Preston Poetry Prize Donor: Agnes Scott College Winner: Gabriel Hall

Amherst CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Trustees of Amherst CollegeWinners: Madelin Parsley, Elias Baez

Aquinas CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Linda Nemec FosterWinner: Michelle Plumstead

Arizona State universityKatharine C. Turner PrizeDonor: Katharine C. TurnerWinner: Reese Conner

Auburn universityRobert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in PoetryDonor: Frances MayesWinner: M. P. Jones IV

Augsburg CollegeJohn R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Jeanette MitchellWinner: Mary Klecker

Baylor universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Beall Poetry Festival Winner: Audrey Elledge

Beloit CollegeBeloit Poetry Journal PrizeDonor: Marion StockingWinner: Maia Sinaiko

Bennington CollegeGreen Prize for PoetryDonors: Kelly Green, Forrest MacGregorWinner: Ben Redmond

Bergen Community CollegeSteven W. Chung Poetry PrizeDonor: Steven W. ChungWinner: Zach McDevitt

Bloomsburg universityRichard Savage Poetry AwardDonor: Bloomsburg UniversityWinner: Talia Hazelton

Boston universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Boston UniversityWinner: Johanna Pittman

Bowdoin CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Bowdoin CollegeWinner: Raisa Tolchinsky

Bradley universitySipple Poetry PrizeDonor: Bradley UniversityWinners: Jaclyn Weber, Margaret Cipriano

Brandeis universityRamon Feliciano Poetry PrizeDonor: Marion McDonaldWinners: Nikk Wasserman, Rawda Aljawhary

Brigham Young universityEthel Lowry Handley Poetry PrizeDonor: Ethel Lowry HandleyWinner: Josh Sabey

Brooklyn College, CunYBurton A. Goldberg Poetry PrizeDonor: Burton GoldbergWinner: Sean Desvignes

Brown universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Leander McCormick-GoodhartWinner: Ben Luton

Bryn Mawr CollegePrize in Memory of Marie BullockDonor: Fair Alice McCormickWinner: Hema Surendranathan

California polytechnic State universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: California Polytechnic State UniversityWinner: Jonathan Maule

California State university, Los AngelesHenri Coulette Memorial AwardDonor: California State University, Los AngelesWinner: Katharine Henry

Calvin CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Calvin CollegeWinner: Kai Koopman

Carnegie Mellon universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Carnegie MellonWinner: Lou Lamanna

university & College prize 2014 RecipientsEach University & College Prize recipient receives a cash prize, a free year-long membership in the Academy of American Poets, and a listing in American Poets magazine. Students’ winning poems also are considered for publication on Poets.org and in the Academy of American Poets’

periodic anthologies of prize-winning poems. In addition, University & College Prize recipients twenty-three years old or younger are eligible for the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award. We are pleased to congratu-late this year’s prizewinners. r

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Central Michigan universityEric Torgersen Poetry PrizeDonor: Phillip SterlingWinner: Hannah Fillmore

Central pennsylvania CollegeGeraldine G. Britcher Poetry PrizeDonor: Raymond W. BritcherWinner: Jade Harper

Centre CollegePaul Cantrell Poetry PrizeDonor: Phillip SterlingWinner: Robyn Carroll

Chatham universityLaurie Mansell Reich Poetry PrizeDonors: Laurie & Henry ReichWinner: Deborah Fass

City College of San FranciscoFelicia Farr Lemmon Poetry PrizeDonor: Felicia Farr LemmonWinner: Ayo Khensu-Ra

Cleveland State universityAlberta Turner Poetry PrizeDonor: Cleveland State UniversityWinner: Emily Troia

College of the Holy CrossDominick Lepore Poetry AwardDonor: Dominick J. LeporeWinner: Quinn McCracken

College of WoosterCora Owlett Latzer AwardDonor: Susan W. DonnellWinner: Emily Gammons

Colorado State universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Colorado State University Faculty & AdministrationWinner: Kristen George-Bagdanov

Columbia university (Graduate)Bennett Poetry PrizeDonor: Liza BennettWinner: Colin Ryan

Columbia university (undergraduate)Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: AnonymousWinner: Kate Gamble

Connecticut CollegeCharles B. Palmer Poetry AwardDonor: Connecticut CollegeWinner: Asia Calcagno

Cooper unionElizabeth Kray PrizeDonor: The Cooper UnionWinner: Ten Li Guh

Cornell CollegePrize in Memory of Clyde & Jewell Bothwell TullDonor: Alice Louise HaugWinner: Carlie Ruffalo

Dartmouth CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Dartmouth CollegeWinner: Geanette Foster

Dickinson CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Dickinson CollegeWinner: James George

Drew universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Susan BarbaWinner: Lindsey Altongy

Duke universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: The Biddle FoundationWinner: Gwen Hawkes

elizabethtown CollegeRaymond & Mausolene Stouffer PrizeDonor: Raymond W. BritcherWinner: Brighid Flynn

emerson CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Emerson CollegeWinners: Marissa Koors, Cheryl Buchanan

emory universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: The Friends of Creative WritingWinner: Emory Bell

Florida International universityChristopher F. Kelly Award for PoetryDonor: John BondWinners: Paul Christiansen, Marci Calabretta

Fordham universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Poets Out Loud at Lincoln Center Winners: Shea Boresi, Raven Diltz

Franklin & Marshall CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: C. Hunter BollWinner: Rachel Landau

George Mason universityJoseph A. Lohman III Poetry PrizeDonor: Judith LelchookWinner: Sabera Akhter

George Washington universityA. E. Claeyssens Jr. Poetry PrizeDonor: The George Washington UniversityWinner: David Meni

Georgia College & State universityFrankye Davis Mayes PrizeDonor: Frances MayesWinners: Benjamin Mitchell, Whitney Gray

Georgia perimeter CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Lawrence HetrickWinner: Sara Jean Lane

Gettysburg CollegeMarion Zulauf PrizeDonor: Sander ZulaufWinner: Emily Francisco

Grinnell CollegePrize in Memory of Lorabel RichardsonDonor: Alice Louise HaugWinner: Emily Mester

Hamilton CollegeRalph & Doris Hansmann Poetry PrizeDonor: Phillip BlumbergWinner: Rory Keating

Hartwick CollegeAnna Sonder PrizeDonor: Otto SonderWinner: Elizabeth Greco

Harvard universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Harvard UniversityWinner: Amanda Peery

Hofstra universityNancy P. Schnader AwardDonor: Hofstra UniversityWinner: Laina Briedis

Hollins universityGertrude Claytor Poetry PrizeDonor: W. Graham Claytor Jr.Winners: Morgan Blalock, Megan Grosholz

Hope CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Hope CollegeWinner: Stephanie Emanuele

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Hunter CollegeCatalina Páez & Seumas MacManus AwardDonors: Patricia MacManus, Mariquita M. MullanWinners: Matthew Petronzio, Nicholas Neely

Illinois CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Deborah Klang SmithWinner: Brittany Spaulding

Illinois Wesleyan universityArthur W. Hinners & Louise Hinners Sipfle PrizeDonor: David A. SipfleWinner: Colleen O’Connor

Indiana State universityMadelyn DeGaetano Memorial Poetry PrizeDonor: Elaine L. KleinerWinner: Ashley Rose Shrader

Indiana universityVera Meyer Strube Poetry PrizeDonor: Jean Meyer AloeWinners: Paul Asta, Kien Lam

Kenyon CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Kenyon CollegeWinner: Jessica Lieberman

Lewis & Clark CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Lewis & Clark CollegeWinners: Talal Gedeon Achi, Sara Balsom

Long Island university, C.W. post CampusJohn & Agnes McCarten Memorial AwardDonor: Jeanne Marie ScottWinner: Josh Lamore

Loyola university MarylandAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Loyola University MarylandWinner: Leya Burns

Loyola university of ChicagoDr. Frank C. Lawler Poetry PrizeDonor: Frank Lawler Jr.Winner: Kieran Neal

Macalester CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Macalester CollegeWinner: Ryan Brownlow

Marietta CollegeStephen Schwartz Prize in PoetryDonor: Laura Baudo SillermanWinner: Darnell C. DePriest

Messiah CollegeCarrie A. Guhl PrizeDonor: Raymond W. BritcherWinner: Gretchen Rockwell

Miami-Dade Community CollegeFred Shaw Poetry PrizeDonor: Miami-Dade Community CollegeWinner: Vanessa Hernandez

naropa universityMargaret Randall Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Friends of Margaret RandallWinner: Georgia Van Gunten

new Jersey City universityWalter Glospie Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: New Jersey City UniversityWinners: Angelica Roman, Holly Hensley

north Carolina State universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: North Carolina StateWinner: Heather Bowlan

northeast Ohio Master in Fine ArtsAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: NOEMFAWinner: Emily Troia

northwest Indian CollegeBetty & Norman Lockwood Poetry PrizeDonor: James HarderWinner: Diane Moses

northwestern universityJean Meyer Aloe Poetry PrizeDonor: Jean Meyer AloeWinner: Rachel Girty

Ohio State universityArthur Rense PrizeDonor: Paige Rense NolandWinner: Janelle DolRayne

Oklahoma State universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Oklahoma State UniversityWinner: Jessica Glover

pace universityDavid A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings Poetry PrizeDonor: David KermaniWinner: Maria Gabriele Baker

penn State HarrisburgStaff Sergeant Robert J. Miller PrizeDonor: Raymond W. BritcherWinner: Dawn Saylor

pennsylvania State universityLeonard Steinberg Memorial PrizeDonor: Pearl SteinbergWinner: Alaina Symanovich

piedmont CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Barbara Brown TaylorWinner: Hillary Kelley

portland State universityEnglish Award/Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Portland State UniversityWinner: Melissa Ward

pratt InstituteAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Pratt InstituteWinner: Helena Duncan

princeton universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: William F. and Jerene HewittWinner: Grace Y. Li

purdue universityThomas H. Scholl & Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry PrizeDonor: Thomas H. SchollWinner: Matt Kilbane

Reed CollegeMary Barnard Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Reed CollegeWinner: Hannah Fung-Wiener

Rockford CollegeColleen Holmbeck Poetry PrizeDonor: Rockford CollegeWinner: Doug Janicke

Rollins CollegeArden Goettling/Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Family & Friends of Arden GoettlingWinners: Ryan Favata, Conor Albino

Rutgers universityEnid Dame Memorial Poetry PrizeDonor: Jeanne Marie BeaumontWinner: Matthew Naples

Saint Mary’s College of CaliforniaRussell & Yvonne Lannan Poetry PrizeDonor: John J. LannanWinner: Simon Neely

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San Francisco State university (undergraduate)Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry PrizeDonor: Friends and Family of Piri ThomasWinner: Branden Balenzuela

Santa Clara universityTamara Verga Poetry PrizeDonor: Victoria Verga LoganWinner: Sabrina Barreto

Sarah Lawrence College (Graduate)John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in PoetryDonors: Charmaine Ferenczi, Joseph McCrindleWinner: Julia Weiss

Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)Harold Taylor PrizeDonor: The New Hope FoundationWinner: Jordan Martin

Shimer CollegeRuth Cooley Poetry PrizeDonor: Peter CooleyWinner: Trevor Griffith

Skidmore CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Skidmore CollegeWinner: Matthew Gellman

Smith CollegeAnne Bradstreet PrizeDonor: Smith CollegeWinner: Emma Kelley

Southern Illinois university at Carbondale (Graduate)Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Carolyn Forman MoeWinner: Lucien Dorjeun Meadows

Southern Illinois university at Carbondale (undergraduate)Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Rodney JonesWinner: Ashley Mollick

Spring Hill CollegeReverend Andrew C. Smith, S. J., Poetry PrizeDonor: Lawrence LannanWinner: Anna DeWine

St. John’s universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Thomas McInerneyWinner: Daniel Heffernan

St. Lawrence universityJames Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in PoetryDonor: St. Lawrence University Winner: Jamie Caroccio

Stetson universityHolly M. Kimball Poetry PrizeDonor: Phillip BlumbergWinner: Adrianna Ugarte

SunY BinghamtonAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: SUNY BinghamtonWinners: Peiyi Cao, Brian Trimboli

SunY BuffaloFriends of the University Libraries PrizeDonor: SUNY BuffaloWinner: Alexandra Hunt

SunY OswegoAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Lewis TurcoWinner: Lena Gluck

Sweet Briar CollegeJean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry PrizeDonor: Jean Meyer AloeWinner: Faith Frampton

trinity CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: J. Ronald SpencerWinners: Julia Rubano, James Ciano

tufts universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Tufts UniversityWinner: Anna Ohara

tulane universityAnselle M. Larson/Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Herbert V. LarsonWinner: Joe Eichner

united States naval AcademyStuart Pitt Memorial Poetry PrizeDonor: A. Stuart PittWinner: Sarah Claudy

university of AlabamaHill-Kohn PrizeDonor: University of AlabamaWinner: Bethany Startin

university of Alaska FairbanksHarold McCracken Endowment Poetry ContestDonor: Harold McCrackenWinner: Daniel Dyer

university of ArizonaAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: University of Arizona Winner: Jarrett Eakins

university of California, DavisCeleste Turner Wright Poetry PrizeDonor: Celeste Turner WrightWinner: Mary Kathryn Nielsen

university of California, IrvineAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Walter J. ThomsonWinner: Claire Cronin

university of California, Los AngelesFred & Edith Herman Memorial PrizeDonor: Joan LaBombardWinner: Cody Koester

university of Cincinnati (Graduate)Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation Winner: Brian Brodeur

university of Cincinnati (undergraduate)Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: The George Elliston Poetry Foundation Winner: Shealyn M. Hoehn

university of DelawareHarold Taylor PrizeDonor: The New Hope FoundationWinner: Margaret Johnson

university of Hawai‘i at ManoaHarold Taylor PrizeDonor: The New Hope FoundationWinner: Rajiv Mohabir

university of HoustonBrazos Bookstore/Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: University of HoustonWinner: Christopher Murray

university of IdahoAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Karen TrujilloWinner: Zana Previti

university of IdahoAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Don BurnettWinner: Zana Previti

university of Illinois at urbana-ChampaignRuth Llewellyn Baird PrizeDonor: Robert D. WoodWinner: Laney Ontiveros

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university of Iowa Writers’ WorkshopHarold Taylor PrizeDonor: The New Hope FoundationWinner: Andy Axel

university of MarylandPrize in Memory of Anaïs NinDonor: Robert W. NewcombWinner: M. K. Foster

university of Massachusetts, AmherstAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: University of Massachusetts, AmherstWinner: Delia Pless

university of Massachusetts, BostonHarold Taylor PrizeDonor: The New Hope FoundationWinners: Karen Locascio, Kalimah Mustafa

university of MemphisDeborah L. Talbot Poetry AwardDonor: Deborah TalbotWinners: Brittney Duncan, Sarah Slack

university of MiamiAlfred Boas Poetry PrizeDonor: University of MiamiWinner: Damian Caudill

university of Michigan (Graduate)Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Sharon A. GalleyWinner: Nathaniel Marshall

university of Michigan (undergraduate)Academy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Sharon A. GalleyWinner: Emily Pittinos

university of MinnesotaJames Wright Prize for PoetryDonor: University of MinnesotaWinners: Janna Knittel, Elizabeth O’Brien

university of MontanaAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: University of MontanaWinner: Alicia Mountain

university of nebraska, LincolnWilbur Gaffney Poetry PrizeDonor: Wilbur GaffneyWinner: Maria Nazos

university of nebraska, MFA in WritingHelen W. Kenefick Poetry PrizeDonor: John C. KenefickWinner: Emily Borgmann

university of new OrleansAndrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry AwardDonor: Andrea GereightyWinner: Jennifer Hanks

university of north Carolina at Chapel HillAnn Williams Burrus Prize in PoetryDonor: Ann W. BurrusWinner: Joshua S. Orol

university of north Carolina at GreensboroNoel Callow Poetry AwardDonor: H. T. Kirby-SmithWinner: Aaron Balance

university of north DakotaThomas McGrath AwardDonor: University of North DakotaWinner: Cameron Kelsall

university of north texasPaul R. Voertman PrizeDonor: Paul R. VoertmanWinner: Chelsea Wagenaar

university of notre DameBilly Maich AwardDonor: AnonymousWinner: Jayme Russell

university of pennsylvaniaWilliam Carlos Williams PrizeDonor: The University of PennsylvaniaWinner: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

university of pittsburghAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: University of PittsburghWinner: Cameron Bryce Barrett

university of pittsburgh at JohnstownColleen M. BrownDonor: Raymond W. BritcherWinner: Jaclyn J. Reed

university of RedlandsJean Burden AwardDonor: Virginia Everett SmithWinner: Hannah Lewis

university of RochesterMarion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry PrizeDonor: The University of RochesterWinner: Patrick Riordan

university of San FranciscoAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: University of San FranciscoWinner: Bria Temple

university of utahCraig Arnold Memorial Poetry PrizeDonor: University of UtahWinner: Sara Eliza Johnson

university of VirginiaAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: University of VirginiaWinner: Safiya Sinclair

university of WashingtonHarold Taylor PrizeDonor: The New Hope FoundationWinner: Jessica Rae Bergamino

university of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeEdward W. Ryan Poetry PrizeDonor: Mary Ann RyanWinner: Peter Burzynski

Valdosta State universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Edward Darvin VickersWinner: Ashley B. Dailey

Valparaiso universityVivian S. Richards Memorial PrizeDonors: Nancy & Michael BeckerWinner: Samantha Wilgus

Vassar CollegeMary Rousmaniere Gordon PrizeDonor: Albert GordonWinner: Joshua Multer

Virginia polytechnic InstituteVirginia Tech/Poetry Society of Virginia Poetry PrizeDonor: Carolyn Kreiter-ForondaWinner: Nathan Blake

Washington & Lee universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: AnonymousWinner: Isabella G. Martin

Washington CollegeJude & Miriam Pfister Poetry PrizeDonor: Jude PfisterWinner: Alexander Stinton

Washington universityAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Washington UniversityWinners: Caleb Caldwell, Emily Stein

Wayne State universityJohn Clare PrizeDonors: Nancy and Michael BeckerWinner: Alan Harris

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Wellesley CollegeNevin PrizeDonor: Arthur W. WadsworthWinners: Jeni Prater, Wendy Chen, Emilie Menzel

Wesleyan CollegeGeorge Warren Gignilliat Jr. Poetry PrizeDonors: Alma & J. Edward LantzWinner: Jordan Ealey

Wesleyan universitySarah Hannah Memorial PrizeDonor: Kate BernheimerWinner: Kayla Stoler

Westminster CollegeAnne Newman Sutton Weeks PrizeDonor: Westminster CollegeWinner: Kathryn Sutton

Williams CollegeBullock Poetry PrizeDonor: The Lannan FoundationWinner: Lysander Jaffe

Wilson CollegeWilliam & Ivy Saylor PrizeDonor: Raymond W. BritcherWinner: Patrick Fox

Yale universitySean T. Lannan Poetry PrizeDonor: John R. LannanWinner: Felicity Sheehy

Yonsei university/underwood International CollegeAcademy of American Poets PrizeDonor: Yonsei UniversityWinner: Moonseok Choi

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Friends of the AcademyThe Academy names our members and donors in the Annual Report in American Poets. We are very grateful to them for their support. At this time, we would like to extend special thanks to the following friends who made gifts of $250 or more between July 1, 2014, and

December 31, 2014. In addition, we’d like to thank our Sustaining Members who have donated $100. To become a member of the Academy of American Poets, please contact us at (212) 274-0343, ext. 11, or visit Poets.org r

$10,000 +

Rita Allen FoundationCampbell Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. William I. CampbellMr. and Mrs. Thomas E.

McInerney

$5,000–$9,999

Mr. Ian Kennedy

$2,500–$4,999

The Bydale FoundationSteven Nightingale

$1,000–$2,499

AnonymousMs. Barbara Lazear AscherCarole Merritt and Alvin ChisikMr. Miles CoonSusan and Tom DunnMs. Evelyn FurseRev. Audrey GonzalezMs. Patricia GrayMs. Jane B. HirshfieldMr. and Mrs. Earl R. MandleMr. Paul MarianiFair Alice McCormickMr. Nion T. McEvoyMr. and Mrs. Alexander C. SangerDr. Mel B. YokenCynthia Young

$250–$999

Mrs. Anne Selden AnnabAnonymousAnonymousMs. Jean M. AuelMr. Qualls Barry

Erica BatittoMr. Tom C. BenetMr. John BenkaMr. John BlondelMs. Beverly BotelhoMr. Michael A. BoydMs. Barbara K. BristolTina Brown and Izzy EvansRichard ByrneMr. Timothy CareyDr. Joel ConarroeMiss Sabrina CoryellRondi CharlestonMs. Ellen C. de Saint PhalleDr. R. H. W. DillardDante DiStefanoMs. Honnie EdwardsMr. Robert EhlersMs. Jenny FactorMs. Sophia FaskianosMarlene Rosen Fine and

Michael J. FineMs. Judith M. FordMs. Sandra GilbertMr. Keith Goldsmith and

Ms. Joan GoodmanMr. D. A. GrayMs. Jennifer GriggMr. Harry GriswoldMr. Donald A. HagelbergMs. Joan Cusack HandlerDeidre Harrison and Tom CraneMr. Matthew HittingerJoan HuffmanMr. Harold HutchinsonMr. Renz D. JenningsDr. Lynn JohansenMr. Daniel Johnson

Mr. George Q. Johnson, Jr.Zema Jordan, Ph.D.Barry KnightMs. Mary-Ellen KreherMs. Willa Lewis and

Mr. Edward MoulinMr. Ryan LeyMrs. Jean W. MaggsMr. Mark Magowan and

Ms. Nina SolomonMr. and Mrs. Brian R. MahonyJessica and Paul MaichMr. Craig W. MyersMr. Tim MayoMr. Eugene O’BrienDr. Malcolm O’HaganMr. Roland F. Pease, Jr.Mr. Thaddeus PerryMs. Maysa-Maria PetersonMs. Rachel PrayMrs. Florence RichlerChristopher L. RobertsDr. David RobertsMrs. Nancy Rubin and

Mr. Miles RubinDr. David SamSyee SameeMs. Stephanie SandlerMs. Judith N. ScottMr. Jim SeeleyMr. Randall A. StaufferMs. Christine SteckelDr. James StewartMr. and Mrs. James StilesMs. Amy StollsMr. Charles R. StringerMr. Jason TalbotMs. Hannah Thrasher

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Nina AdlawanGay AllisonMr. Stephen S. AlpertDr. Madalon AmentaMs. Diana AndersonMr. Jack AndersonJoAnn M. AnglinMr. Ryan AsmussenMr. Stephen AtheyDr. Chap AttwellMs. Susan AugustDr. Jeffery BahrPhilip L. BaileyMs. Ansie BairdMs. Traci BarrRobyn BeachMr. and Mrs. Michael W. Becker Mr. Philip B. BelcherMs. Julie BenbowMs. Susan Bernardo Sister Elizabeth Michael BoyleMs. Rhonda BrammerCaryl Jones BrownMs. Jean M. BrownMarion S. BrownMr. Joseph BruchacMs. Linda BuchsbaumMs. Kathleen BurgessMr. Timothy CalawayMr. Mark CalcamuggioMs. Bettye M. CaldwellMonika Irene CasselMs. Nancy ChewAvern CohnMs. Martha CollinsMr. Bill ConningtonMs. Eva Alice CounsellDavid CowenBrian CroninMs. Joan CrowellMr. Christopher DahlColonel Burt DallMr. John Daly

Myrna DeAgostinoMr. Oliver F. de la PazMs. Suzanne DemkoMr. Paul DesruisseauxMs. Rita A. DillonMs. Caroline DiMatteoMr. Thomas DodgeDr. Sandra Maresh M. Doe Mr. Walter B. DollMr. Vernon EdwardsMr. Steven EllisMs. Lois EllisonMr. Landon L. ElswickBarbara EngleMr. William EvansSilvine Marbury FarnellDr. Flora FennimoreMs. Joan FitzGeraldMr. David C. FletcherMr. Richard FoersterMr. Robert ForbesMr. Richard FoxMs. Charla GabertDr. Edwin GardinerMs. Frieda GardnerMs. Barbara GerberMr. Marc GilbertSusan and David GilbertMr. Reid GinsburgMr. Robert L. GironMs. Barbara GoldbergMs. Bonnie GoldenbergMr. Igor GoldkindConnie Goodman-MiloneDr. Sarah GordonMr. Frank GouldMs. Tanya GraeMr. Dennis H. GreenwaldMr. and Mrs. David GrubinMr. Donald HallMs. Leilani R. HallMs. Melissa HallMr. David HellersteinMr. J. Alexander HemphillMs. Jacqueline HenrionMr. James HickersonMs. Lisa HiggsMs. Margaret HinesMr. Carl HoffmanDr. Joseph F. HoffmanMr. Kevin HoganMary Golding HogyaCarolyn L. Houghton

S. P. HowellMs. E. M. JanikRichard A. JenkinsMs. Loraine JohnsonMrs. Mary JohnsonMs. Maxima KahnMs. Edith Martin M. KaresMs. Jen KaretnickPhilip M. KatzMs. Susan A. KatzMr. John KavanaughMr. X. J. KennedyLou KerrMs. Diane KlammerGray Kochhar-LindgrenMr. Ted KooserMs. Helen E. KrusichMr. Daniel LambertonMs. Devi LaskarAnne LauranceMr. Dallas M. LeeMr. James LeeMs. Susan B. LeeDr. Aaron LeisMr. Alex LemonMr. J. David LissMr. William LoebMr. William Louis-DreyfusJoanne LymanEmily C. LyonsMr. James P. MacElderryMr. Jack ManzerMrs. Virginia ManzerMs. Sara MarshallMs. Diana MartinezKen and Kara MastersMr. Jon MathewsonMr. Rob E. McCabe, Jr.Mr. Michael McNeillMs. Karen MeadMs. Alice P. MeaderEugene MelinoMrs. Elyce MelmonShanee B. MichaelsonDr. Patricia Cleary MillerMr. Wayne MillerMr. Joseph R. MillsLisa MiyasakiMs. Kerry MohnikeLetitia Montgomery-RogersMr. Arthur H. NapierGenevieve NaumanMs. Nan Newton

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Mr. Leonard NoltMr. D. NurkseMr. John Paul O’ConnorDr. Kirsten E. OgdenMr. Jon OlsonArnold OrzaMr. Fotios PanosMr. Dan J. PaquetteMr. Jeffrey PascalMr. Donald PearlAmy J. Percy Ms. Carolyn PeterkinMs. Evelyn PierceMs. Andrea PierceallMr. Erick D. PorterMr. Thomas PowellMs. Susan PyneMD RabbMs. Sheila RabinowitchMs. Erica Mann RamisS. M. RezaianMr. Francis L. RichardsonMr. Michael RolenzFelicia Ann RoqueDr. Lucille Rosenberg, M.D.

Ms. Mary Ann RyanMs. Marnie SadlowskyMs. Deborah C. SchneiderMs. Lee ScheingoldMr. Philip SchultzMs. Olivia SearsMr. John SerpaMr. Suhail ShahDan ShahamIris SheaShiffman FoundationMs. Larissa ShmailoMrs. Georgia ShreveMs. Elaine SmithMs. Elizabeth Anne A. SocolowMr. Theodore M. SpaceBruce SpencerMr. Patrick J. StaffordRev. Catherine StentzelMr. Terry B. StevensonLouis DeVito StrangDr. Tyson StolteElizabeth Daniel StoneMs. Sandra StoneRobin Stout

Ms. Ellen SummerfieldDr. Gary D. SwaimMs. Bonnie ThurstonMs. Trudy ToddMr. Timothy J. TomasiWyatt and Roderick TownleyMr. Greg N. TralanDavid J. TuckerMs. Chase TwichellMr. Mark A. UnderwoodMr. E. F. VastolaJulia WagnerCary WatermanMs. Joan WatersMr. Larry WatsonCaroline WelchHarriot Terry WestMariquita WestMs. Sarah M. WetzelMs. Sarah M. WhiteMr. Bradley S. WhitehurstMr. Osborne Wiggins, Jr.Jake and Diane WilliamsMr. David WojahnSteven and Lorraine Woolery

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