Bollingen Prize: Jackson Poetry Prize: Lambda Literary Award: Gay Poetry: Lesbian Poetry: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Craig Morgan Teicher Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Finalists: National Book Award for Poetry (NBA): NBA Finalists: NBA Longlist: NBA Judges: National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: The New Criterion Poetry Prize: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Wallace Stevens Award: Whiting Awards: PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: PEN Center USA 2018 Poetry Award: PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: ) Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge: Yale Younger Series: From the Poetry Society of America Frost Medal: Ron Padgett Shelley Memorial Award: Ntozake Shange Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Lyric Poetry Award: Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Victoria Chang Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: George Bogin Memorial Award: Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Norma Farber First Book Award: Eve L. Ewing Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: William Carlos Williams Award: Jennifer Chang Deaths January – June Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 3 – Keorapetse Kgositsile (b. 1938), South African Poet Laureate February 12 – Kamal al-Hadithi (b. 1939), Iraqi poet July – December August 5 – Matthew Sweeney (b. 1952), Irish poet October 22 – Anne Fairbairn, (b. 1928), Australian poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture October 27 – Ntozake Shange (b. 1948), American playwright and poet November 22 – Judith Rodriguez, (b. 1936), Australian poet and academic See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards References 2010s in poetry 2018 poems 2018-related lists Culture-related lists by year