2023 American Poets Prize Winners Announced

The Academy of American Poets has announced the winners of the 2023 American Poets Prizes, among the most prestigious poetry prizes in the United States. 

This year's winners are:

• Afaa Michael Weaver has received the Wallace Stevens Award, which is given annually to recognize "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry" and comes with a $100,000 stipend
• Major Jackson has received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, given in memory of James Ingram Merrill (with support from the T. S. Eliot Foundation) and recognizing "distinguished poetic achievement"; it comes with a $25,000 stipend and a residency at the Eliot House in Gloucester, Mass.
• Edgar Morales, a senior at Dartmouth College, has won the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award, which recognizes a student poet, for the poem "Swim"; it comes with a $1,000 prize
• Ama Codjoe’s Bluest Nude (Milkweed) has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a $25,000 award recognizing "the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year"
• Cyrée Jarelle Johnson's Watchnight (Nightboat) has won the James Laughlin Award, recognizing and supporting a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year, which comes with a cash prize of $5,000 and a one-week residency at the Betsy Hotel in Miami
• Author Margarita Pintado Burgos and translator Alejandra Quintana Arocho have won the Ambroggio Prize for Ojo en Celo/Eye in Heat, awarded to a book-length manuscript of poems originally written in Spanish and accompanied by an English translation; the winners receive $1,000 and publication by the University of Arizona Press
• Stephanie McCarter's translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) has won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, a $1,000 prize recognizing "a published translation of poetry from any language into English that demonstrates literary excellence"
• Moira Egan's translation of Letters of Black Fire by Italian poet Giorgiomaria Cornelio has won the Raizidd/De Palchi Fellowship, a $25,000 prize given for the translation into English of a significant work of modern Italian poetry; the winning translator also receives a five-week residency at the American Academy in Rome