The Anthony Hecht Prize: A Twentieth-Anniversary Reading
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Thursday, Mar 05, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM EDT
Location: Room 326, Level 300
Baltimore Convention Center
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Waywiser fills a vibrant niche in the poetry publishing ecosystem. After launching the Waywiser Press in 2001, publisher Philip Hoy partnered with editor Joseph Harrison in 2005 to found the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, hailed as the poetry world’s “new plum.” Since then, Waywiser Press has run twenty Hecht Prize contests, with winners receiving numerous accolades. In celebration, five poets, spanning the two decades of the prize, will read from their books, to be followed by a Q&A.
Featuring:
Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Might Could
Austin Allen, Pleasures of the Game
Geoffrey Brock, Voices Bright Flags
Erica Dawson, Big-Eyed Afraid
Julia Thacker, To Wildness
