Bollingen Prize in Poetry

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Bollingen Prize in Poetry

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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