The New Criterion Poetry Prize

The New Criterion Poetry Prize
The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books. It was founded in 1982 by Kramer and Samuel Lipman, a music critic; the name is a reference to The Criterion, a British literary magazine edited by T. S. Eliot from 1922 to 1939.

Since 2000 the magazine has awardeed The New Criterion Poetry Prize to a poet for "a book-length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form".

These poets have won the prize; all have been published by Ivan R. Dee of Chicago:
 * 2010: Ashley Anna McHugh, Into These Knots (ISBN 156663878X)
 * 2009: William Virgil Davis, Landscape and Journey (ISBN 1566638399)
 * 2008: Daniel Brown, Taking the Occasion (ISBN 1566638011),
 * 2007: J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again (ISBN 1566638089); Judges: David Barber, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Hadas and David Yezzi
 * 2006: Bill Coyle, The God of this World to His Prophet (ISBN 1566637104)
 * 2005: Geoffrey Brock, Weighing Light (ISBN 1566636671); Judges: W. S. Di Piero, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Wetzsteon and David Yezzi
 * 2003: Deborah Warren, Zero Meridian (ISBN 1566635969)
 * 2002: Charles Tomlinson, Skywriting and other poems (ISBN 1566635411)
 * 2001: Adam Kirsch, The Thousand Wells (ISBN 1566634512)
 * 2000: Donald Petersen*, Early and Late: Selected poems (ISBN 1566633974)