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Dietz Poetry Essay Prize

University of Iowa · published from the foundation's own scholarship portal, verified 2026-09-03

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Deadline

February 24, 2026 (passed)

Award amount

$250

Foundation

University of Iowa

Program description

"Elizabeth Dietz (1964-2005) was a poet and professor of Renaissance Literature at Rice University. A graduate of both the Writers Workshop and the University of Iowa’s doctoral program in English, Elizabeth specialized in the lyric poetry of sixteenth and seventeenth-century England and was equally interested in poetic theory and practice. She was also a gifted teacher of poetry. The Dietz Essay Prize is awarded annually, on alternating years, for the best essay on poetry written by an undergraduate and a graduate student. In honor of Elizabeth’s broad and eclectic interests, essays on all kinds of poetry — epic, lyric, narrative, dramatic, and experimental — as well as on poetics are welcome. This prize is offered to an undergraduate major in the spring of even-numbered years."

Quoted from University of Iowa's own portal listing.

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