The living index of poetry publishing.

Academy of American Poets first-book prize: $5,000, publication, and an all-expenses-paid residency.

The oldest annual literary award in America (1919): first-book publication by Yale University Press.

Since 1919

Career-launching prize for poets who have not yet published a book; reading at the 92nd Street Y.

University of Pittsburgh Press first-book prize; winners join the Pitt Poetry Series.

First-book prize from The American Poetry Review with publication and distribution by Copper Canyon.

Two annual book prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press, judged from one submission pool.

Annual book prize from the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State.

Five winning manuscripts published annually by participating trade and university presses.

Since 1978