New York Chapbook Fellowship
The Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship is awarded once a year to two New York poets under 30 years of age who have yet to publish a first book of poems. Two renowned poets select and introduce a winning manuscript for publication. Each winner receives an additional $1000 prize.
Winners
2009:- The Sundering by Stephanie Adams-Santos, selected by Linda Gregg
- Lure by Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, selected by Arthur Sze
- Ave, Materia by Jean Hartig, selected by Fanny Howe
- The Category of Outcast by CJ Evans, selected by Terrance Hayes
- Monster Theory by Lytton Smith, selected by Kevin Young
- The Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds &c. by Carey McHugh, selected by Rae Armantrout
- Locket, Master by Maya Pindyck, selected by Paul Muldoon
- On animate life: its profligacy, organ meats, etc. by Jessica Fjeld, selected by Lyn Hejinian
- Cold Work by Cecily Parks, selected by Li-Young Lee
- The Next Country by Idra Novey, selected by Carolyn Forche
- Gilda by Andrea Baker, selected by Claudia Rankine
- Speaking Past the Tongue by Justin Goldberg, selected by Henri Cole
- Forget Rita by Paul Killebrew, selected by John Ashbery
- The Misremembered World by Tess Taylor, selected by Eavan Boland