The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is administered by the Academy of American Poets selected by the New Hope Foundation in 1994.
Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.
[7] Receipt of the prize has been among the distinctions noted by the Library of Congress when the Poet Laureate of the United States is named.
[12] Following the folding of Saturday Review, the Prize was administered by The Nation magazine.
The Prize is still sponsored by The Nation, which usually publishes an article about the poetry of each year's finalists and winner.