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