Congratulations to MICHAEL LAVERS, winner of this year’s Anne Halley Poetry Prize! Nathan McClain and Abigail Chabitnoy have selected Michael Lavers’ poem “Sun, Birds, and Leaves” from MR’s Summer 2023 issue (Vol. 64, Issue 2) for the prestigious prize. MICHAEL LAVERS is the author of After Earth and The Inextinguishable, both published by the University of Tampa Press. . . .
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The 2022 winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Robert Whitehead, for his poem “David” (Volume 62, Issue 1). ROBERT WHITEHEAD received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and has been a fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Ashbery Home School, and the Vermont Studio Center. His . . .
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The 2019 winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Amit Majmudar for his poem, “Invasive Species,” published in Volume 59, Issue 4. Join us for a celebratory reading at Amherst Books on Thursday, April 4, at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Amit Majmudar’s next books are Soar: A Novel and Kill List: Poems. His most . . .
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The 2018 winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Katie Farris for her poem, “The Lords of Time,” published in Volume 58, Issue 4. Katie Farris is the author of Thirteen Intimacies, forthcoming from Fivehundred Places, and boysgirls. She has cotranslated several books of poetry from French, Chinese, and Russian. Her work has appeared in anthologies . . .
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The 2017 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Gary J. Whitehead, for his poem, “Music from a Farther Room,” published in Volume 57, Issue 4. Gary J. Whitehead is a poet, teacher, and crossword constructor. His third collection of poems, A Glossary of Chickens, was published by Princeton University Press in 2013. His . . .
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The 2016 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Taije Silverman, for her poem, “Spiritual Evaluation,” published in Volume 56, Issue 2. Taije Silverman is the author of the collection Houses Are Fields, and her poems have been published Poetry, the Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, and AGNI. She received the 2010-11 W.K. Rose Fellowship from Vassar . . .
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The 2015 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Sarah Sousa, for her poem, “Her Moods Caused Owls,” published in Volume 55, Issue 3. Sarah Sousa’s first collection, Church of Needles, won the 2013 Red Mountain Prize and was published by Red Mountain Press in 2014. Her second collection, Split the Crow, was published January . . .
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The 2014 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Geffrey Davis, for his poem, “What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse,” published in Volume 54, Issue 3. Geffrey Davis’s debut collection, Revising the Storm, was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, and will be published by BOA Editions . . .
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The 2013 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Ross Gay, for his poem “Ode to Sleeping in My Clothes,” published in Volume 53, Issue 1. A Cave Canem Fellow, Ross Gay is author of Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down, the title poem of which enacts this poet’s excruciating extremes of terror and . . .
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The 2012 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Philip Metres, for his poems “Home/Front” and “Air Aria,” published in Volume 52, Issue 3/4. Philip Metres grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Holy Cross College in 1992, and spent the following year in Russia on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, . . .
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