Nominations open for Four Quartets Prize (US)

The Four Quartets Prize is first and foremost a celebration of the multi-part poem, which includes entire volumes composed of a unified sequence as well as novels in verse and book-length verse narratives.

Prize Information

• Finalists will receive $1,000 each.
• The winner will receive an additional $20,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The poems must have been published in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book in 2024.
• Entire books composed of a unified sequence, however long, are also welcome.
• Please be sure to order the poems in the sequence.
• Only work published in 2024 will be considered.
• The Poetry Society of America will accept submissions from authors, publishers, and literary agents.
• There is no submission fee.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
• Self-published work is ineligible.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.

Application Requirements

• Fourteen pages of published poems unified by subject, form, and style is the minimum per submission.
• Submissions must be accompanied by an entry form and a paragraph statement about the aims of the work.
• If the poems in the sequence have been published separately in print or online journals or in a chapbook, please include four copies of the table of contents and the copyright page of each journal or chapbook attached to the poems published in that publication.
• If the sequence is contained in a book, please send four copies of the sequence along with four copies of the table of contents’ page and the copyright page.
• If the sequence constitutes an entire book, please send four copies of the book.
• Only one submission per author will be considered.
• The submission must be accompanied by an entry form.
• Entries should be sent via USPS.

For more information, visit Poetry Society of America.