sentences:  Winners had their poetry book published under the auspices of the award, and 16 were published from 1986 to 2001 with support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation and alumnae of Barnard College.Beacon Press was the publisher.A 2000 essay in the "Chicago Review" named this prize as one of two examples (along with the Yale Series of Younger Poets) of "first-book awards of notable integrity".