George Bogin Memorial Award

The Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award is given "by the family and friends of George Bogin for a selection of four or five poems that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in any of its forms."^[1]

Each winner receives a $500 prize.^[1]

Winners

2001: Brian Henry
2002: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Jill Bialosky
2003: Susan Terris, Judge: Sonia Sanchez
2004: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Tory Dent
2005: G.C. Waldrep
2006: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Marie Howe
2007: Wayne Miller, Judge: Eleni Sikelianos
2008: Theresa Sotto, Judge: Prageeta Sharma
2009: Rusty Morrison, Judge: John Yau
2010: Sawnie Morris, Judge: Hettie Jones
2011: Suji Kwock Kim, Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Finalists: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Leslie Williams
2012: Suji Kwock Kim, Judge: Evie Shockley, Finalists: Rebecca Morgan Frank, Mary Morris
2013: Paula Bohince, Judge: Cate Marvin, Finalists: Jamaal May, Lucy Ricciardi
2014: Gary Young, Judge: Jessica Greenbaum, Finalists: Meena Alexander and Jane Wong
2015: Dean Rader, Judge: Stephen Burt, Finalists: Nina Puro and Diana Khoi Nguyen
2016: Adam O. Davis, Judge: Eduardo Corral, Finalists: Shara Lessley and Purvi Shah
2017: Marie La Viña, Judge: Victoria Redel, Finalists: Beth Bachmann, Kai Carlson-Wee, Aidan Forster, and Brian Tierney
2018: Brian Tierney, Judge: Daniel Borzutzky, Finalists Catherine Imbriglio and Cate Lycurgus
2019: Sarah Henning
2020: JinJin Xu
2021 Natalie Eilbert, Judge: Shane McCrae
2022: Ina Cariño, Judge: Mai Der Vang
2023: Tom Thompson, Finalist: Katie Farris, Judge: Atsuro Riley