GREENFIELD — The annual Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest is seeing a change of venue in its 33rd year, transitioning from Stoneleigh-Burnham School to the new Greenfield Public Library.

The contest will be held Tuesday, April 23, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. This year also marks a return to holding the celebration in April, which is National Poetry Month.

“The major difference in the poetry event this year is that it’s going to be at the new library,” Cyndie Rothschild, co-chair of the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest, wrote in an email. “Stoneleigh-Burnham School has very graciously hosted our event for many years but now we have a beautiful space at the library.

“It is especially fitting that public libraries sponsor these types of free literary events open to all,” she added.

The contest, which was started in 1991, is held in honor of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, who lived in Greenfield from 1847 until his death in 1873 and was considered a gifted poet.

The event welcomes finalists to read their poetry submissions in the three categories: youth ages 12 to 14, youth ages 15 to 18, and adult. Each youth subcategory is narrowed down to five finalists, and another 10 finalists are chosen from the adult category. Two winners are selected for each youth subcategory — though they are not ranked — and adult category entrants can receive prizes for first, second or third place.

All 20 poems are read and winners are announced that evening. Around 110 poems were submitted for the adult category, and around 30 were submitted for the youth categories. Three youth poem judges and four adult poem judges were tasked with reviewing the submissions.

The adult first-prize winner will receive stewardship of the Poet’s Seat chair until the next adult first-place winner is announced the following year. The winner’s name will be engraved on the chair’s plaque, alongside the previous winners’ names. The adult winner will also receive a platter, donated annually by Shelburne Falls potter Stephen Earp.

Bob Barba, the 2019 winner of the adult category who now serves as that category’s head judge, said that when choosing finalists he looks for “poetry that is deeply felt. … I want to be moved.”

“As communities go, this one is pretty deep in poets,” Barba said. “When I go into the grocery store I’m very aware that I am surrounded by poets in Franklin County.”