The Four Quartets Prize is an award of the Poetry Society of America, presented annually since 2018 in partnership with the T. S. Eliot Foundation.
"[1] The awards are named for T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, written over a four-year period.
The award recognizes the 75th anniversary of Eliot's New York publisher first collecting them in a single volume in 1943.
[5] The prize does not require that nominees have an existing body of work or reach a certain age.
[2] The Four Quartets Prize was first presented in 2018 to Danez Smith for their sonnet "summer, somewhere."