National Poetry Series founder and director Daniel Halpern reflects on the 50th anniversary of his publishing imprint, Ecco Press, in an interview with Mitchell Kaplan on LitHub.
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series congratulates the five winners of the 2020 National Poetry Series Competition: W.J. Herbert, Trevor Ketner, Teresa K. Miller, Amanda Moore, and Devon Walker-Figueroa.
Continue readingAlejandro Pérez-Cortés is the winner of this year’s Paz Poetry Prize for an original manuscript of Spanish language poetry.
Continue readingRecent reviews spotlight winning poetry collections from the 2018 National Poetry Series: Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark, in The New York Times (9/17/2019) Daniel Poppick, Fear of Description in The New York Times (10/01/2019) Jon Sands, It’s Not Magic in The Boston Globe (9/26/2019)
Continue readingThe winners of the 2019 National Poetry Series are Heid Erdrich, Alexandria Hall, Diane Louie, Benjamin Garcia, and Michael Torres.
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series is proud to announce the winners of the 2018 Open Competition.
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series is pleased to announce the 2018 Paz Prize for Poetry winner, Puerto Rican poet Johanny Vazquez Paz for her manuscript Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana. The book, selected by judge Rigoberto Gonzalez, will be published in both English and Spanish by Akashic Books.
Continue reading“For Want of Water”: The Incredible Honor of Recognition from the National Poetry Series – November 02, 2017
Continue readingThe winners of the 2017 National Poetry Series are GennaRose Nethercott, Dominique Christina, Jos Charles, Lindsay Bernal, and J.Michael Martinez.
Continue readingDaniel Halpern, founder of The National Poetry Series, writes for The New York Times: “A Few Questions for Poetry.”
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