After four decades, the Maurice English Poetry Award will discontinue following the Elaine Terranova reading on April 17th, 2024 at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia.
2024 Elaine Terranova
2023 Eleanor Wilner
2022 Susan Stewart
No readings occurred in 2020-2021 due to Covid-19.
2019 Marie Howe
2018 Paul Muldoon
2016 Simon Winchester
2015 Lee Young-Li
2014 Natasha Trethewey
2013 Philip Levine
2012 Kay Ryan
2011 W. S. Merwin
2009 Naomi Shihab-Nye
2008 Ulla Hahn
2006 Galway Kinnell
2005 Robert Pinsky
Judged Awards
2005 Caroline Knox, He Paves the Road with Iron Bars (selected by F.D. Reeve)
2004 R. T. Smith, The Hollow Log Lounge (selected by Li-Young Lee)
2003 Samuel Hazo, Just Once: New and Selected Poems (selected by Naomi Shiahb Nye)
2002 Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (selected by Edward Hirsch)
2001 Kay Ryan, Say Uncle (selected by Susan Stewart)
1991 Richard Fein, Kafka’s Ear (selected by ThomasKinsella)
1990 W. S. Merwin, Selected Poems (selected by Robert Hass)
1989 Jean Valentine, Home Deep Blue: New and selected poems (selected by Peter Viereck)
1988 David Ray, Sam’s Book (selected by Denise Levertov)
1987 Philip Booth, Relations (selected by Maxine Kumin)
1986 Linda Pastan, A Fraction of Darkness (selected by William Stafford)
1985 Jane Cooper, Scaffolding: New and Selected Poems (selected by Galway Kinnell)