Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Winners
Click below to read the winning poems from each year
2005
"Petrarch on West 115th Street" by Marion Shore
Final Judge: Charles Martin
2004
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" by A.E. Stallings
Final Judge: Rachel Hadas
2003
“Discovery” by Rhina P. Espaillat
Final Judge: Dana Gioia
2002
“Embarking” by Marion Shore
Final Judge: Wyatt Prunty
2001
“Baggage” by Deborah Warren
Final Judge: X. J. Kennedy
2000
“Note from Echo” by A.M. Juster
Final Judge: W. D. Snodgrass
1999
“Chain Poem” by Bob McKenty
Final Judge: Wendy Cope
1998
“Contingencies” by Rhina P. Espaillat
Final Judge: John Frederick Nims
1997
“Incipient Fireworks” by Madeleine Mysko
Final Judge: Donald Justice
1996
“The Track of the Storm” by Timothy Murphy
Final Judge: Anthony Hecht
1995
“Moscow Zoo” by A.M. Juster
Final Judge: Mona Van Duyn
1994
“Jo Painted” by Sarah Birnbaum
Final Judge: Richard Wilbur