The Prize Judge To Be Joseph O. Legaspi
The New York Poetry Prize is administered annually by Torres & Company. It awards $1,000 for a single poem and inaugurates the poet at a venue in New York City on August 29th, 2026.
The judge for the prize is the assistant to the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, Joseph O. Legaspi.
Joseph O. Legaspi, Fulbright scholar and two-time New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow, is author of three collections (Amphibian; Threshold; and Imago) and three chapbooks (Postcards; Aviary, Bestiary; and Subways). Legaspi’s works have appeared in POETRY, American Poetry Review,New England Review,World Literature Today, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). He teaches at Fordham University and works at Columbia University. He resides with his husband in Queens, NY.
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We're excited to announce the judge of the New York Poetry Prize!
Mr. Legaspi assists with the administration of the Pulitzer Prizes at Colombia University. Send in your work to be considered by him for the New York Poetry Prize,
Learn more about Mr. Legaspi’s poetics at The Poetry Foundation.
About the Prize
Reading/contest fee: $17
Priority Deadline: June 15th, 2026
Open to all poets and writers
Submit: https://torresandcompany.subfolios.com/submit
All entrants are automatically considered for free admission to the awards ceremony in New York City. We look forward to seeing you there!
Executive Team
Judge: Joseph O. Legaspi
Administrator: Luis Torres
General Advisor: Brent Ameneyro, the senior editor at the Los Angeles Review
General Advisor: Sam Yaziji, the production editor at Poetry International
Note: We have opted to use Subfolio since it was created by the son of the editor-in-chief at AGNI, which was a meaningful fact when deciding how to administer the prize.