The Poetry Society of America (PSA) is a membership-based organization that supports poets and poetry through twelve annual awards contests, chapbook fellowships, and national events. The PSA also inaugurated POETRY IN MOTION in New York in 1992 and has since expanded the program to numerous cities from coast to coast.

The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Em...
Deadline: 2023-12-31

Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
The Cecil Hemley Memorial Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America for a lyric poem that addresses a philosophical or e...
Deadline: 2023-12-31

Lyric Poetry Award
The Lyric Poetry Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America and was "established under the will of PSA member Mrs. C...
Deadline: 2023-12-31

Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America. It was established by Maury Medwick in memory of...
Deadline: 2023-12-31

Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
For 10 pages of poetry from a manuscript-in-progress. Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. ...
Deadline: 2023-12-31

George Bogin Memorial Award
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 ...
Deadline: 2023-12-31

Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
For a manuscript of 10 pages by a mid-career poet who has not had substantial recognition. Open to poets 40 and over who have published no more than o...
Deadline: 2023-12-31

Four Quartets Prize
The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book....
Deadline: 2023-12-31