Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards

[2] Additionally, the first ten volumes printed poems that were selected in a competition for undergraduate college students.

"[5] Moore had established a charitable foundation that underwrote the expenses of administering the Poetry Awards and publishing the annual anthology.

Beginning with the 1953 volume, they were titled in the style Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1953: A Compilation ... in order to "prevent confusion with 'awards' by other organizations".

[5] The titling was changed for the last time in 1957, reading Best Poems of 1956: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1957: A Compilation ....

The curriculum vitae of Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate of the United States in 1987, notes that his poem "Advice to a Prophet" won first place in the 1959 volume.