TheJames Laughlin Award, formerly theLamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book. The award is given by theAcademy of American Poets, and is noted as one of the major prizes awarded to younger poets in the United States.^[1] It is currently named afterJames Laughlin, an American poet and editor who foundedNew Directions Publishing, the distributor of English-translatedSiddhartha. In 1959, Harvey Shapiro referred to the award as "roughly, a Pulitzer for bardlings."^[2]

This partial listing is taken from the website of the Academy of American Poets.^[3]

For the first 20 years, a poet's first published volume was the annual Lamont Poetry Selection.

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