IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award

Description

The IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award is given every three years to a promising new poet of children’s poetry (for children and young adults up to grade 12) who has published no more than two books of children’s poetry. A book-length single poem maybe submitted. The award is for published works only. Poetry in any language may be submitted; non-English poetry must be accompanied by an English translation. The next award will be for poetry copyrighted from 2007 to 2009.

For additional information, please contact the Executive Division.

Award Recipients

2007

Joyce Lee Wong
Seeing Emily (Amulet)

2004

Lindsay Lee Johnson
Soul Moon Soup (Front Street)

2001

Craig Crist-Evans
Moon Over Tennessee: A Boy’s Civil War Journal (Houghton Mifflin)

1998

Kristine O’Connell George
The Great Frog Race and Other Poems (Clarion)

1995

Deborah Chandra
Rich Lizard and Other Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)