Celebrate Your Love of Prose with These NYU Alumni Poets

Publications: Hard Damage (2019). Also featured in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, and The Poetry Review.

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry and 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.

Publications: Ugly Music (2019). Also featured in the Bennington Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, The Adroit Journal, and the Washington Square Review.

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry and Pamet River Prize.

Publications: What it Means to be Avant-Garde (1993), Talking at the Boundaries (1976), Talking (1972).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry.
 

Publications: Afsanah: In Her Words (2023), Shamma: The Dancing Flame (2019)

Publications: Night Burial (2020)

Awards and Recognition: 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry

Publications: It Whispers (2020)

Publications: Tender (1997), The Black Notebooks (1997).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Annisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction.

Publications: Archeophonics (2016), Threshold Songs (2011), The Outernationale (2007), Artificial Heart (1998).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poet Award and National Book Award finalist.

Publications: Presentation Piece (1974).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.

Publications: Gorilla (2021)

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the 2019 Tenth Gate Prize

Publications: Stay Safe (2021)

Awards: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

Publications: House of Lords and Commons (2016), Far District (2010).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Whiting Writers’ Award, PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.

Publications: How to Survive Today (2019)

Awards and Recognition: Honored at the Getty Museum, Madison Square Garden, San Francisco Opera House, Nuyorican Poets Café, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lexus Verses and the Flow variety show, and The Price is Right

Notable Publications: Olio (2016), leadbelly (2005).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Whiting Writers’ Award, Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award, and Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award.  

Publications: Punks: New and Selected Poems (2021)

Awards and Recognition: National Book Award for Poetry

Publications: A Gift from Greensboro (2016), mystic turf (2012), They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (2004), Southside Rain (2000).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the Image Union/Bob Award, Securing the Future Award, Chicago’s Black Book Fair Poet of the Year Award, Henry Blakely Award, and Wallace W. Douglas Distinguished Service Award.  

Publications: Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015). Also featured in The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, and VIDA.

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Prize, and International War Poetry Prize finalist.
 

Publications: Ikons of the Past: Poetry of the Hispanic Americas (2018), Elementals (2019), Writers on my Watch (2020), and Odyssey: Poetry and Prose (2021).

Publications: Bright Dead Things (2015).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award and National Book Award finalist.  

Publications: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (2008), You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am (2006).

Awards and Recognition: Founder and editor of Muumuu House and Co-founder of MDMAfilms.  

Publications: Religion (1999), Tilt (1996).

Awards and Recognition: Former program coordinator and board president of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.  

Publications: Poem that Never Ends (2021)

Publications: Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (2020), Up Jump the Boogie (2010).

Awards and Recognition: Honors include two Larry Neal Writers Awards, a pair of Pushcart Prizes, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Publications: Obscenely Yours (2013). Also featured in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Boston Review, Fence, The Los Angeles Review, and Tin House.

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest and Lambda Literary Award for Poetry.

Publications: Digest (2014), Totem (2007).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and APR/Honickman First Book Prize.

Publications: Present Tense Complex (2021)

Publications: Magical Negro (2019), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (2017).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and creator and host of the live talk show Reparations, Live!.  

Publications: The World Doesn’t End (1989).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Wallace Stevens Award, and Griffin International Poetry Prize. Also a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and a former U.S. poet laureate.

Publications: Beautiful Ends (2021)

Publications: US (a.) (2015), The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop (2006), Said the Shotgun to the Head (2003), S/he (1999), The Seventh Octave (1998).

Awards and Recognition: 1996 Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion, and winner of the Camera d’Or prize at Cannes and Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

Publications: Time Is A Mother (2022), On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019), Night Sky With Exit Wounds (2016).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and New England Book Award for Fiction.

Publications: Eye Level (2018), Nowhere to Arrive (2017).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, Drinking Gourd Prize, and National Book Award finalist.

Publications: Unaccompanied (2017), Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years (2011).

Awards and Recognition: Winner of the Northern California Book Award, Firecracker Award from the Community of Literary Magazines, Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award, Organic Weapon Arts Contest, Meridian Editors’ Prize, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist.