The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry is an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. Sponsored by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Prize honors Donald Hall, former US poet laureate and a remarkable teacher and mentor and provides funding for the $5,500 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence, and is available to published and unpublished authors alike. Submission information can be viewed here and Donald Hall Prize for Poetry prize information can be found here.
See the 2025 winner retrovirology: poems by John Bonanni (announced here in January 2026).
2025 Donald Hall Poetry Prize
Selected by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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retrovirology
Committed to ‘remember what everyone wants to forget,’ retrovirology is stirring, persuasive proof that courage and outrage have mattered, and still can. The subjects here: intimacy and revolution, history and our rights, and equally, the slow burn of queer joy, the unstoppable fire of queer visibility. John Bonanni makes from that fire an essential music.
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