Country | United States |
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Language | English |
Discipline | Poetry |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Published | Annually since 1919 |
No. of books | 114 |
OCLC | 1605127 |
Website | youngerpoets |
The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the United States.
Each year, the Younger Poets Competition accepts submissions from American poets who have not previously published a book of poetry. Once the judge has chosen a winner, the Press publishes a book-length manuscript of the winner's poetry as the next volume in the series. All poems must be original, and only one manuscript may be entered at a time.