Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award was established in 1994 by The Formalist. The award, honoring the poet Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), was an open competition for sonnets in English that drew about 3000 entries annually. ^[1][2] The award was $1000, and from 1995–2004, the winning sonnet and the eleven finalists were published inFollowing the discontinuation of The Formalist in 2004, the winning sonnet and eleven finalist poems were published in the literary magazine Measure.^[3] The creation of this award is associated with the "New Formalism" movement.

In the announcement of the 2017 winner and finalists, the 2017 competition was described as the "24th & final" contest. ^[4]

List of winners

The winners, judges, and winning sonnets from 1994–2011 are posted on a webpage of The Formalist;^[5] the subsequent winners are also listed in the table below:

Past Winners

Year	Poet	Sonnet	Judge
2017	Carol Frith[6]	Dying Firethorn	Dana Gioia[7]
2016	Midge Goldberg[8]	Tennis Practice Against the Garage Door	Rachel Hadas
2015	D. R. Goodman[9]	All the Dropped Things	Gail White
2014	Marty Steyer[10]	Caliban Is Not	R.S. Gwynn
2013	Gail White[11]	Tourist in India	Dick Davis
2012	Gail White[12]	Old Photographs	Rhina Espaillat
2011	Robert W. Crawford[13]	Odds Are	A. M. Juster
2010	Catherine Chandler[14]	Coming to Terms	A. E. Stallings
2009	Richard Wakefield[15]	Petrarch	David Middleton
2008	Stephen Scaer	Sightseers	Timothy Steele
2007	A. M. Juster[2]	No	Frederick Turner
2006	Robert W. Crawford	The Empty Chair	Andrew Hudgins
2005	Marion Shore	Petrarch on West 115th Street	Charles Martin
2004	A. E. Stallings	Hank Williams Blues	Rachel Hadas
2003	Rhina Espaillat	Discovery	Dana Gioia
2002	Marion Shore	Embarking	Wyatt Prunty
2001	Deborah Warren	Baggage	X. J. Kennedy
2000	A. M. Juster	Note from Echo	W. D. Snodgrass
1999	Bob McKenty	Chain Poem	Wendy Cope
1998	Rhina Espaillat	Contingencies	John Frederick Nims
1997	Madeleine Mysko	Incipient Fireworks	Donald Justice
1996	Timothy Murphy	The Track of the Storm	Anthony Hecht
1995	A. M. Juster	Moscow Zoo	Mona Van Duyn
1994	Sarah Birnbaum	Jo Painted	Richard Wilbur

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literary awards

References

1. "Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award". Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
2. Juster, Mike (October 2008). "So you want to win a Nemerov?". 14by14 (6). Retrieved 2009-03-25. Essay by three-time Nemerov Award winner Mike Juster.
3. Measure is a literary journal founded in 2005 by Paul Bone and Rob Griffith. Two issues are published each year. See "Measure Press: The Journal". Archived from the original on 2014-04-04. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
4. Juster, A.M. (January 18, 2018). "Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award results". Able Muse. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
5. "Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Winners". The Formalist. University of Evansville. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23.
6. Juster, A.M. (January 18, 2018). "Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award results". Able Muse. Retrieved 2018-01-18. Includes list of finalists.
7. "Measure Press :: Nemerov Sonnet Award". Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
8. Juster, A.M. (January 1, 2017). "The 2016 Nemerov Sonnet Award". Able Muse. Retrieved 2017-01-02. Includes list of finalists.
9. "The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award" (PDF). University of Evansville. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2016-08-07. Includes list of finalists.
10. Corbett, Maryann (January 18, 2015). "Nemerov results". Able Muse. Retrieved 2015-01-18. Includes link to list of finalists.
11. Chandler, Catherine (January 28, 2014). "Gail White Wins the Nemerov (Again!)". Able Muse. Retrieved 2014-01-28. Includes list of finalists.
12. Cantor, Michael (January 29, 2013). "Gail White Wins the Nemerov". Able Muse. Retrieved 2013-07-03. Includes list of finalists.
13. Kreiling, Jean L. (January 27, 2012). "Bob Crawford Wins Nemerov". Able Muse. Retrieved 2012-01-27. Includes list of finalists.
14. Cantor, Michael (February 11, 2011). "Catherine Chandler Wins Nemerov". Able Muse. Retrieved 2011-03-08. Includes list of finalists.
15. "TCC Faculty Member Richard Wakefield wins Howard Nemerov Sonnet Competition" (Press release). Tacoma Community College. 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2010-08-02.^{[dead link]}