The Waywiser Press

01/04/2025

Judge Shane McCrae has selected MIGHT COULD, by Anna Lena Phillips Bell, as the 20th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize winner. Congratulations to the winner, and to all the terrific finalists and semifinalists, and thanks to all of you who submitted your fine work, and to all of you who read and support Waywiser.

THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL ANTHONY HECHT POETRY PRIZE JUDGE: SHANE McCRAE The December 1st deadline for the twentieth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize has now passed, and the judging process is underway. The contest’s results will be posted on the press’s website – at The Waywiser Press – in the Spring ...

11/03/2025

Tonight! There is also a live stream option for those who can't join us in DC...

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10/03/2025

Tuesday!

Join us Tuesday to celebrate the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize! The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series and co-sponsor The Waywiser Press honor poet Julia Thacker, alongside this year’s prize judge, acclaimed Irish poet, critic, playwright, and translator Paul Muldoon, who will read with Thacker. Can't join us in person? There's a virtual option, too! https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/2025-anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-with-paul-muldoon/

06/12/2024

Looking for the perfect solstice gift for your favorite literary elf? It's always the season for Waywiser Poetry!

Julia Hungry is a communion and reckoning with form—a female poet’s apprenticeship to the male-dominated canon of twentieth century verse, part love-affair and part fencing match with its forebears. Inherited forms are intact almost to a fault but flooded with femininity as if in an attempt to r...

27/11/2024

The Folger Shakespeare Library may have missed an opportunity by not naming its new eatery As You Like it Cafe (as we suggested), but a cafe by any other name still looks as sweet. Quill & Crumb (that name got the most votes in a public call for ideas) opens tomorrow in the newly renovated

27/11/2024

27/11/2024

This year’s Hecht Prize judge, Shane McCrae, wants to read your first or second collections of poetry! Deadline approaching fast (Dec 1): https://hechtprize.waywiser-press.com/