This year’s judge, Ann Kjellberg, was literary executor for 1987 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Joseph Brodsky, and editor of Mr. Brodsky’s “Collected Poems in English” and “Selected Poems 1968-1996.” Ms. Kjellberg is founding editor of the literary magazine Little Star and served on the New York Review of Books’ editorial staff for almost 30 years.

Previous Yeats Poetry Prize judges include L.S. Asekoff, Billy Collins, Alfred Corn, Jessica Greenbaum, Eamon Grennan, Campbell McGrath, Leslie McGrath, Samuel Menashe, Paul Muldoon, Marie Ponsot, Alice Quinn, Spencer Reese, Grace Schulman, Harvey Shapiro, and Bill Zavatsky.