Jorie Graham
- taught at Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is now at Harvard.
- selected her student, Joshua Clover , as winner of the Walt Whitman Award, which has since changed its guidelines .
- selected her student, Michele Glazer , as winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Poetry in 1997, which prompted AWP to change its guidelines . Glazer, who studied with Graham at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize for her second book.
- chose her student, Geoffrey Nutter , as winner of the Colorado Prize in 1999.
- picked Iowa graduate James McCorkle for The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry published by Copper Canyon Press.
- awarded the 2004 Barnard Women Poets Prize to her former student, Tessa Rumsey , whose first book was selected for the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series by Jorie’s ex, James Galvin.
- "’It’s hard to imagine how one could be a better teacher of poetry than she is,’ says Mark Levine , a former student who now teaches at Iowa himself."* He must have been a very good student, as Graham picked his first book for the National Poetry Series in 1992.
- Presented her husband/Harvard colleague, Peter Sacks , with the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series prize for his book.
- A statement adopted in competitions to prevent judges from selecting students is often referred to as the Jorie Graham rule .