Yale Series of Younger Poets
The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the United States.
The Tempering, published by Howard Buck in 1919, is the first volume in the series.
Charlton M. Lewis (1919–1923)
Frederick E. Pierce (1923)
Edward Bliss Reed (1923–24)
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of Babylon", published in 1937.
Benét at Yale College in 1919
Benét's gravesite at Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut