HONOR

"Awarded every two years for the best volume of poetry published during those years or for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art." Started by Paul Mellon in 1948, the prize is $25,000 and is administered by Yale University. It became bi-annual in 1963.

Official Website:
http://highway49.library.yale.edu/bollingen/

1949	Ezra Pound
1950	Wallace Stevens
1951	John Crowe Ransom
1952	Marianne Moore
1953	Archibald Macleish and William Carlos Williams
1954	W. H. Auden
1955	Léonie Adams and Louise Bogan
1956	Conrad Aiken
1957	Allen Tate
1958	e. e. cummings
1959	Theodore Roethke
1960	Delmore Schwartz
1961	Yvor Winters
1962	John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart
1963	Robert Frost
1965	Horace Gregory
1967	Robert Penn Warren
1969	John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
1971	Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn
1973	James Merrill
1975	A. R. Ammons
1977	David Ignatow
1979	W. S. Merwin
1981	Howard Nemerov and May Swenson
1983	Anthony Hecht and John Hollander
1985	John Ashbery and Fred Chappell
1987	Stanley Kunitz
1989	Edgar Bowers
1991	Laura Riding and Donald Justice
1993	Mark Strand
1995	Kenneth Koch
1997	Gary Snyder
1999	Robert Creeley
2001	Louise Glück
2003	Adrienne Rich
2005	Jay Wright

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