LibGuides: Finding Poetry!: A Sprinkling of Other Resources

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Poetry Prizes

Poetry prizes are a great way to expose yourself to new (or new to you) poets/collections. Here are a few to start things off:

Academy of American Poets First Book Award
"established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book"
Griffin Poetry Prize
"the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry written in, or translated into English"
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
"recognizes the work of a translator for a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year"
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
"recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year"
National Book Award - Poetry
"American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation"
The National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry
"awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism"
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
"honors a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"
T. S. Eliot Prize
"an annual prize for the best new poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland"
Wallace Stevens Award
"given annually to recognize outstanding artistic achievement in the art of poetry over a poet's career"
Yale Series of Younger Poets
"the oldest annual literary award in the United States and the series champions the most promising new American poets"

A "Button Poetry" Sampler

Button Poetry YouTube Channel
Button Poetry is a Minnesota-based organization dedicated to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for performance poetry.

Poetry Podcasts

Love podcasts? Here are a few you can try:

New Yorker Poetry Podcast
- Readings and conversations with The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Kevin Young.
Poetry Unbound (an OnBeing podcast)
- Delve into an immersive exploration of a single poem.
Poetry Magazine Podcast
- The Poetry Magazine Podcast takes listeners on an audio journey into and beyond the pages of Poetry. Hear poets share the surprises, confusions, and desires that keep them writing.
Poetry Off the Shelf
- Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul.
VS.
- The VS podcast is a bi-weekly series where poets confront the ideas that move them.
The Slowdown
- Join The Slowdown for a poem and a moment of reflection in one short episode, every weekday
Interesting People Reading Poetry
- artists and luminaries to read [...] a favorite poem and share what it means to them
The Poetry Exchange
- In each 20-minute episode you will hear an individual talking about a poem that has been a friend to them, as well as the ‘gift’ recording of the poem that has been made for them, in response to their thoughts and feelings about the poem.
Poem Talk
- Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests
PoetryNow
- PoetryNow is a weekly four-minute radio series featuring some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets who offer an acoustically rich and reflective look into a single poem.