Glascock Prize
The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College. The "invitation-only competition is sponsored by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets, including Sylvia Plath and James Merrill, among its past winners"[1] and is thought to be the "oldest intercollegiate poetry competition."[2]
The contest
Each year, about six young poets from the nation's top colleges and universities are selected to participate. After being selected, participants submit a brief manuscript of poems, which they read at a public reading during the culmination of the contest.[3]
History
The annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest is named after Kathryn Irene Glascock. Glascock was a young poet who graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1922.[2]
Glascock died in 1923. Shortly after her death, Glascock's parents established the Glascock Prize. It became an intercollegiate event in 1924.[3]
The Glascock Poetry Competition has launched the careers of many of America's most important poets including James Merrill who won in 1946 (and participated in 1938), Sylvia Plath who won in 1955, Kenneth Koch in 1948, Donald Hall who took second place in 1951 and Gjertrud Schnackenberg in 1973.[4]
Other notable participants include Mark Halperin, Mary Jo Salter, Katha Pollitt, Mary Ann Radner, William Kunstler, James Agee and Frederick Buechner.[4]
List of winners and participants
Select judges
- W. H. Auden
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Louise Bogan
- Witter Bynner
- John Ciardi
- Billy Collins
- Robert Frost
- Anthony Hecht
- Galway Kinnell
- Kenneth Koch
- Stanley Kunitz
- Maxine Kumin
- Denise Levertov
- Audre Lorde
- James Merrill
- Marianne Moore
- Howard Nemerov
- Sylvia Plath
- John Crowe Ransom
- Adrienne Rich
- May Sarton
- Stephen Spender
- John Updike
- Peter Viereck
- Derek Walcott
- Richard Wilbur
- William Carlos Williams
- John Livingston Lowes
- Fannie Stearns Davis
- Anna Hempstead Branch
- William Haller
- David Morton
- Rolland Greenwood
- George F. Whicher
- Jessie Rittenhouse
- Léonie Adams
- Henry Seidel Canby
- Charles Wilbert Snow
- Howard Buck
- Edwin Valentine Mitchell
- Elizabeth Hollister Frost
- William Rose Benet
- Jessie Rehder
- Arthur Davison Ficke
- Grace Conkling
- Ridgely Torrence
- Sidney E. Cox
- Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
- Thomas Del Vecchio
- Robert Francis
- Curtis Hidden Page
- Louise Bogan
- John Holmes
- Martha Dickinson Bianchi
- Winnifred Wlles Shearer
- Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Leonard Bacon
- Gerald Warner Brace
- Phyllis Bartlett
- Roberta Teale Swartz
- Stearns Morse
- Florence Dunbar Robertson
- Babette Deutsch
- Kimon Friar
- Sara de Ford
- Genevieve Taggard
- Louise Bogan
- Mrs. Marshall Bragdon
- John Malcolm Brinnin
- Rolfe Humphries
- Andrews Wanning
- Richard Eberhart
- W.W. Bison
- Hallet D. Smith
- Leonard, Stevens
- Elizabeth Bishop
- John Ciardi
- Dudley Fitts
- Robert Fitzgerald
- John L. Sweeney
- Robert Gorham Davis
- W. H. Auden
- Wallace Fowlie
- Edwin Muir
- Marie Borroff
- C.L. Barber
- George Garrett
- Joseph Langland
- William Morris Meredith Jr.
- Rosamund Field
- Denise Levertov
- Ruth Whitman
- Donald Finkel
- Barbara Howes
- Donald Justice
- Stanley Koehler
- James Scully
- L. E. Sissman
- Barry Spacks
- Jane Cooper
- Helen Chasin
- X. J. Kennedy
- Glyn Maxwell
- James Wright
- Richard Howard
- Jean Valentine
- Daniel Hoffman
- Kathleen Spivack
- Marilyn Hacker
- Stephen Spender
- Donald Hall
- Nancy Willard
- Robert Pinsky
- Jane Shore
- Theodore Weiss
- Susan Griffin
- David Ferry
- Joyce Peseroff
- George Starbuck
- Frank Bidart
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Josephine Jacobsen
- Ed Ochester
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- Diane Wakoski
- Pamela White Hadas
- Alfred Corn
- Mark Strand
- Amy Clampitt
- Seamus Heaney
- Jay Macpherson
- A. R. Ammons
- Diana O'Hehir
- Rosanna Warren
- Michael S. Harper
- Mona Van Duyn
- Dana Gioia
- Paul Muldoon
- John Ashbery
- Rachel Hadas
- Robert Bagg
- David Lehman
- John Koethe
- Katha Pollitt
- Susan Snively
- Molly Peacock
- Douglas Crase
- Linda Pastan
- Alan Dugan
- Cynthia Zarin
- Emily Grosholz
- Stephen Romer
- Tony Sanders
- Grace Schulman
- Carolyn Kizer
- Margaret Holley
- April Bernard
- John Peck
- Alastair Reid
- Karl Kirchwey
- Rhina Espaillat
- Wyatt Printy
- Rachel Wetzsteon
- John Hollander
- Marilyn Nelson
- Carl Phillips
- Sarah Lindsay
- Deborah Warren
- Greg Williamson
- Eamon Grennan
- Elizabeth Spires
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Annie Boutelle
- W. D. Snodgrass
- Larissa Szporluk
- Erica Dawson
- Baron Wormser
- Terri Witek
- Andrew Hudgins
- Myung Mi Kim
- Stephanie Burt
- Jeffrey Harrison
- Dawn Lundy Martin
- Mary Jo Bang
- Sarah Gambito
- J. D. McClatchy
- Cleopatra Mathis
- Mary Jo Salter
- John Yau
- Mark Doty
- Charles Simic
- Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Jane Springer
- Matthea Harvey
- Joshua Mehigan
- Ari Banias
- Marilyn Chin
- Ronaldo V. Wilson
- Donika Kelly
- Joseph O. Legaspi
- Alicia Ostriker
- Martín Espada
- Anna Maria Hong
- Kaveh Akbar
- Franny Choi
- Erica Hunt
Preludes
In 1973, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the contest, the English department of Mount Holyoke College published a collection of poems titled Preludes: Selected Poems from the Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest 1924-1973.[5]
The collection included selected works from the first 50 years of the competition such as "The Black Swan" by James Merrill.[5]
References
- "Kudos". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- Nyary, Sasha (2016-03-15). "Glascock poetry contest slated for April 1–2". Mount Holyoke College. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- Horner, Joyce (2017-02-16). "Glascock Poetry Contest". Mount Holyoke College. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- "The Glascock Contest's Distinguished History". www.mtholyoke.edu. 24 April 2006. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- Preludes: Selected poems from the Kathryn Irene Glascock intercollegiate poetry contest, 1924-1973 (First ed.). South Hadley, Mass.: Dept. of English, Mount Holyoke College. 1973. ISBN 9780911838350.