George Bogin Memorial Award

The Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award is given "by the family and friends of George Bogin for a selection of four or five poems that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in any of its forms."

Each winner receives a $500 prize.

Winners

 * 2001: Brian Henry
 * 2002: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Jill Bialosky
 * 2003: Susan Terris, Judge: Sonia Sanchez
 * 2004: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Tory Dent
 * 2005: G.C. Waldrep
 * 2006: Kevin Prufer, Judge: Marie Howe
 * 2007: Wayne Miller, Judge: Eleni Sikelianos
 * 2008: Theresa Sotto, Judge: Prageeta Sharma
 * 2009: Rusty Morrison, Judge: John Yau
 * 2010: Sawnie Morris, Judge: Hettie Jones
 * 2011: Suji Kwock Kim, Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Finalists: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Leslie Williams
 * 2012: Suji Kwock Kim, Judge: Evie Shockley, Finalists: Rebecca Morgan Frank, Mary Morris
 * 2013: Paula Bohince, Judge: Cate Marvin, Finalists: Jamaal May, Lucy Ricciardi
 * 2014: Gary Young, Judge: Jessica Greenbaum, Finalists: Meena Alexander and Jane Wong
 * 2015: Dean Rader, Judge: Stephen Burt, Finalists: Nina Puro and Diana Khoi Nguyen
 * 2016: Adam O. Davis, Judge: Eduardo Corral, Finalists: Shara Lessley and Purvi Shah
 * 2017: Marie La Viña, Judge: Victoria Redel, Finalists: Beth Bachmann, Kai Carlson-Wee, Aidan Forster, and Brian Tierney
 * 2018: Brian Tierney, Judge: Daniel Borzutzky, Finalists Catherine Imbriglio and Cate Lycurgus
 * 2019: Sarah Henning
 * 2020: JinJin Xu
 * 2021 Natalie Eilbert, Judge: Shane McCrae
 * 2022: Ina Cariño, Judge: Mai Der Vang
 * 2023: Tom Thompson, Finalist: Katie Farris, Judge: Atsuro Riley