Yeats Poetry Prize | Yeats Society of NY

2022 Yeats Poetry Prize
Ann Kjellberg , Judge

Ann Kjellberg is the founding editor the literary magazine Little Star and of Book Post, a newsletter-based book review. She was on the editorial staff of the New York Review of Books from 1988 to 2017. She is the literary executor of the poet Joseph Brodsky and editor of his Nativity Poems, Collected Poems in English, and Selected Poems: 1968-1996. She is a founding director of the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Fund, which has provided residencies in Italy for Russian poets and artists since 2000.

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First Prize

Heather Treseler for "Wildlife"

Second Prize

Anna Knowles for "Check's, Almost Every Night"

Honorable Mentions

Catherine Marenghi for "Mud Pies"

Diana M. Chien for "Velvet"

Richard Foerster for "Listening to Symphony No. 7, Rondo Finale, After Reading Henry-Louis

de La Grange"