In memory of Dr. George Huntington, poet, and novelist, professor of logic, rhetoric, and elocution from 1879 to 1906. The prize is awarded to the student whose submitted poem or group of poems is judged to be the best.
Huntington Prize Winners
- 2023: Bryn Battani, Youjaye Daniels
- 2022: Marianne Gunnarsson
- 2021: Octavia Washington
- 2020: Evan Allgood
- 2019: Lucy Horrell & Will Loner
- 2018: Annmarie Delfino
- 2017: Leslie Mei & Carrie Johnson
- 2016: Choto Chotocruz
- 2015: Julian Robert Skotheim
- 2014: Jeremiah Martin Moriarty
- 2013: Berett Alexa Wilber
- 2012: Kathleen Hagan Roberts
- 2011: Todd Spencer Anderson
- 2010: Emma Kathleen Bentley
- 2009: Gabriel Richard Ulman
- 2008: Matthew Ryan Shelton
- 2007: Gwen Erin Kirby
- 2006: Sarah Beth Dimick
- 2005: Stephen Richard Kampa
- 2004: Stephen Richard Kampa
- 2003: Ellen Mary Snead
- 2002: Amy Jean Kenna
- 2001: Amy Jean Kenna
- 2000: Christopher Michael Martin
- 1999: Jessica Lynne Wangsness
- 1998: Debbie Marie Urbanski
- 1997: Debbie Marie Urbanski
- 1996: Julia A. Bloch
- 1995: Lindsay Karin Lightner
- 1994: Josephine Angela Raney
- 1993: Josephine Angela Raney
- 1992: Jennifer Ellen Jerome
- 1991: Robert Kruger Brown
- 1990: Mark Dylan Sage and Sarah Ritchie Zimmerman
- 1989: Anna M. Prineas
- 1988: Christopher Roy Grundy
- 1987: James Robinson Garfield, Anna M. Prineas, and Alexis Karolides
- 1986: Anna M. Prineas
- 1985: Jenny Ann Bjorhus, Maia Nilsson and Tim James Spiekerman
- 1984: JessAnn Peterson, Ryder Edward Smith, Tim James Spiekerman and Ann Elizabeth Shaffer
- 1983: Jenny Ann Bjorhus, Catherine Lovekin Finney, Richard Lawrence Marolt and Tim James Spiekerman
- 1982: Matthew Bruce Epstein and Catherine Lovekin Finney
- 1980: Jon David Reid
- 1979: Tan Anthony Lin
- 1968: Larry M. Swingle
- 1967: Tamim Ansary
- 1966: Aline S. Faben
- 1965: Randolph Charles Blasing
- 1964: Peter Thomas Schwenger
- 1963: Peter Thomas Schwenger and Sharon Kathleen Walker
- 1962: Peter Charles Schjeldahl