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