Morse Poetry Prize

The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, in honor of Samuel French Morse, is a literary award given to an American author's first or second book of poetry.

The annual prize was established in 1983 and sponsored by Northeastern University. Once selected by a recognized poet, the awarded poet received $1000, and the work received publication by Northeastern University Press, and distribution through the University Press of New England. Prize-winning books were published with a striped cover design, characteristic of the Morse Poetry Prize.^[1]

The award was suspended in 2009, due to difficulties with financial sustainability.^[2]

• 2009: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Tulips, Water, Ash, Judge: Jean Valentine
• 2008: Dana Roeser, In the Truth Room
• 2007: Virginia Chase Sutton, What Brings You to Del Amo
• 2005: Roy Jacobstein, A Form of Optimism
• 2004: Annie Boutelle, Nest of Thistles
• 2003: Dana Roeser, Beautiful Motion: Poems
• 2002: Chris Forhan, The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars
• 2001: Catherine Sasanov, All the Blood Tethers
• 2000: Ted Genoways, Bullroarer: A Sequence
• 1999: Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City
• 1998: James Haug, Walking Liberty
• 1997: Jeffrey Greene, American Spirituals
• 1996: Charles Harper Webb, Reading the Water
• 1995: Michelle Boisseau, Understory
• 1994: Allison Funk, Living at the Epicenter
• 1993: David Moolten, Plums and Ashes
• 1992: Don Boes, The Eighth Continent
• 1991: Carl Phillips, In the Blood
• 1990: George Mills, The House Sails Out of Sight of Home
• 1989: J. Allyn Rosser, Bright Moves
• 1988: Lucia Perillo, Dangerous Life
• 1987: Frank Gaspar, The Holyoke
• 1986: Sue Ellen Thompson, This Body of Silk
• 1985: William Carpenter, Rain
• 1984: Susan Donnelly, Eve Names the Animals, Judge: Anthony Hecht

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