University of North Texas 
The Academy of Poets, as part of their Academy Book Awards, sponsors the University and College Poetry Prize Program to distribute annual prizes at over 200 colleges and universities nationwide. The program is notable for having recognized many of America's premier poetic voices during their college years, including Diane Ackerman, Alice Fulton, Tess Gallagher, Allen Grossman, Kimiko Hahn, Robert Hass, Brad Leithauser, J.D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, and Gregory Orr, among others. Academy of American Poets website: https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/university-college-poetr...
2026 Voertman / Academy of American Poets Winner
John Muellner for "Henrietta"
Previous Winners
2024: Meg McManama for "Elegy to My Mother's Breasts"
2023: Daniel DeVaughn for "Animal Story"
2022: Minadora Macheret for "Remembering the End of the World"
2021: Aza Pace for "Chapel"
2020: Aza Pace for "My Father Asks What I'm Looking At"
2019: Megan Arlett for "Jaw"
2018: Megan Arlett for "Turn of the Millennium"
2017: Andrew Koch for "Inheritance"
2016: Chelsea Wagenaar for "The Spinning Place"
2015: Matt Haines for "The Instructor"
2014: Chelsea Wagenaar for "August"
2013: Justin Bigos for "Three Rivers"
Paul Voertman endowed the Voertman / Academy of American Poets Prize for creative writing graduate students at UNT.
Video: In memory of Paul Voertman https://youtu.be/ZYI66KB4Xuw