Poets & Writers

A Century of Yale Younger Poets

his year marks the centennial of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. The prize, which offers publication of a debut collection by Yale University Press, has heralded the arrival of luminaries such as John Ashbery, Robert Hass, and Adrienne Rich, and launched the careers of many more. The award was initially open only to poets

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