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x Philip Schultz Philip Schultz.jpg 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2008 Failure
Philip Schultz (b. 1945 in Rochester, New York) is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including...
James Laughlin Award 1984 Deep within the Ravine
x Robert Hass Robert Hass.jpg Mar 1, 1941 National Book Award for Poetry 2007 Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941 San Francisco) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and...
MacArthur Fellowship Mar 1984 Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2008 Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 1996 Sun Under Wood
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 1984 Twentieth century pleasures
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x Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey.jpg 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2007 Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey (born 1966) is an American poet, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard. Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in...
x Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson.jpg Jan 13, 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2006 Late wife
Claudia Emerson (born January 13, 1957) is an American poet who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife. She is a professor of English and Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in...
x Ted Kooser Ted Kooser.jpg Apr 25, 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2005 Delights & shadows
Ted Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939, Kooser earned a BS at Iowa State University in 1962 and the MA at the...
x Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon Jun 20, 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2003 Moy Sand and Gravel
Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University. Muldoon's poetry is known for his difficult, sly, allusive style, casual use of...
x C. K. Williams C. K. Williams.jpg Nov 4, 1936 National Book Award for Poetry 2003 The Singing
Charles Kenneth Williams (b. November 4, 1936, Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet. He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and received his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career as a...
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2005  
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 1998  
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir 2001 Misgivings
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2000 Repair
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x Alan Dugan Alan Dugan.jpg Feb 12, 1923 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry 2002  
Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923-September 3, 2003) was an American poet. His poetry is known for its plain and direct language, though it is supported by technical skill; it is generally trenchant and ironic in its criticism of American life and...
National Book Award for Poetry 1962 Poems
National Book Award for Poetry 2001 Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1962 Poems
x Henry S. Taylor   1942 Michael Braude Award for Light Verse 2002  
Henry S. Taylor (born 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and author of over 15 books of poetry. Taylor was born on 21 June 1942 in rural Loudoun County, Virginia. He went to high school at George School in Newtown, PA. He graduated from...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1986 The Flying Change
x Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa by David Shankbone Apr 29, 1947 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2001  
Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29, 1947) is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular:...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
x Louise Glück Louise Glück Apr 22, 1943 Bollingen Prize 2001  
Louise Elisabeth Glück (born 22 April 1943) is an American poet of German heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000...
Lannan Literary Award for Poetry 1999  
Wallace Stevens Award 2008  
PEN/Winship Award for Poetry 2006 Averno
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1993 The Wild Iris
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x Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn.jpg 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2001 Different hours
Stephen Dunn (born 1939 in New York City) is an American poet. Dunn has written fourteen collections of poetry, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours. One of his poems, called "The Sacred" was written in...
National Poetry Series 1985 Local time
x Carl Dennis Carl Dennis.jpg Sep 17, 1939 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2000  
Carl Dennis (born September 17, 1939), an American poet and educator, wrote Practical Gods, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 17, 1939, Dennis attended Oberlin College and the University of...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2002 Practical gods
x Mark Strand Mark Strand.jpg Apr 11, 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1999 Blizzard of One
Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University. Strand was...
MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1987 Poetry
Bollingen Prize 1993  
Wallace Stevens Award 2004  
x Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin.JPG Jun 7, 1925 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1999  
Maxine Kumin (born 6 June 1925) is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982. Born in Philadelphia, Kumin, the daughter of Jewish parents, attended Catholic kindergarten...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1973 Up Country
Poets' Prize 1993 Looking for luck
Frost Medal 2006  
x Mary Oliver Mary Oliver.jpg Sep 10, 1935 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry 1998  
Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet. Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M. V. Oliver on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland. She briefly attended both Ohio State University and...
National Book Award for Poetry 1992 New & Selected Poems
PEN/Winship Award 1991 The House of Light
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1984 American Primitive
x Gary Snyder Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers May 8, 1930 Bollingen Prize 1997  
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep...
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2008  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1975 Turtle Island
American Book Award 1984 Axe handles
x William Morris Meredith, Jr. William Meredith (photo copyright © Dorothy Alexander) Jan 9, 1919 National Book Award for Poetry 1997 Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
William Morris Meredith, Jr. (9 January 1919 - 30 May 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. Meredith was born in New York City to William Morris Meredith, Sr....
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1988 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
x Richard Howard Richard Howard.jpg Oct 13, 1929 MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1996 Poetry
Richard Howard (born October 13, 1929) is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he now teaches. He lives in New York City....
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award 2002  
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation 1985  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1970 Untitled Subjects
Frost Medal 2004  
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x Franz Wright Franz Wright.jpg Mar 18, 1953 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 1996  
Franz Wright (born March 18, 1953) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Born in Vienna, Austria, and educated at Oberlin College (1977), Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2004 for his book Walking to Martha's Vineyard (ISBN 0-375...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard
x Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolynbrooks Jun 7, 1917 Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters 1994  
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000) was an American writer. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas to...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1950 Annie Allen
Frost Medal 1989  
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 1969 In the Mecca; Poems
x James Tate James Tate Dec 8, 1943 National Book Award for Poetry 1994 A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
James Vincent Tate (born December 8, 1943) is an American poet who has received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and is a professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts. Tate's writing...
Wallace Stevens Award 1995  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1992 Selected Poems
x Mona Van Duyn Mona Van Duyn.jpg May 9, 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1991 Near Changes
Mona Jane Van Duyn (9 May 1921 – 2 December 2004) was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1992. Van Duyn was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in the small town of Eldora (pop. 3,200...
Bollingen Prize 1971  
National Book Award for Poetry 1971 To See, To Take
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1989  
x Donald Justice Donald Justice.jpg Aug 12, 1925 Bollingen Prize 1991  
Donald Justice (born in Miami, Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He graduated from the University of Miami and went on to teach for many years at the Iowa Writers'...
Lannan Literary Award for Poetry 1996  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1980 Selected Poems
James Laughlin Award 1959 The Summer Anniversaries
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry 2005 Collected poems
x Jorie Graham Jorie Graham.jpg May 9, 1950 MacArthur Fellowship Aug 1990 Poetry
Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950) is an American poet and the editor of numerous volumes of poetry. Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including her most recent, Sea Change (Ecco, 2008). She has also edited two anthologies,...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1996 The dream of the unified field
x Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz Jul 29, 1905 Bollingen Prize 1987  
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (pronounced /ˈkjuːnɪts/) (29 July 1905 – 14 May 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Kunitz was born in...
National Book Award for Poetry 1995 Passing Through: The Later Poems
PEN/Winship Award for Poetry 2005 The Wild Braid
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1959 Selected Poems 1928-1958
Frost Medal 1998  
x Rita Dove 180px-Rita_dove_in_2004.jpg Aug 28, 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1987 Thomas and Beulah: poems
Rita Frances Dove (born 28 August 1952) is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1993, the first African American to be appointed, and received a second special appointment in...
x John Ashbery John Ashbery by David Shankbone Jul 28, 1927 MacArthur Fellowship Jul 1985 Poetry
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected...
Bollingen Prize 1985  
National Book Award for Poetry 1976 Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
Wallace Stevens Award 2001  
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1992  
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x Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Kizer.jpg Dec 10, 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985 Yin
Carolyn Ashley Kizer (born December 10, 1925) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. "Kizer reaches into mythology in poems like “Semele Recycled”; into politics, into feminism,...
Frost Medal 1988  
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry 2001 American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, 2 vols.
x Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell.jpg Feb 1, 1927 MacArthur Fellowship Nov 1984 Poetry
Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by...
National Book Award for Poetry 1983 Selected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1983 Selected Poems
Frost Medal 2002  
x Charles Simic Charles Simic May 9, 1938 MacArthur Fellowship Mar 1984 Poetry
Dušan “Charles” Simić (Serbian: Душан "Чарлс" Симић) (IPA: [/ˈtʃ͡ɑːɻls ˈʂimitɕ͡/]) (born 9 May 1938) is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the...
Wallace Stevens Award 2007  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1990 The World Doesn't End
x Anthony Hecht Anthony Hecht.jpg Jan 16, 1923 Bollingen Prize 1983  
Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the...
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1988  
Wallace Stevens Award 1997  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1968 The Hard Hours
Frost Medal 2000  
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x Charles Wright Charles Wright.jpg Aug 25, 1935 National Book Award for Poetry 1983 Country Music: Selected Early Poems
Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet. Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, and attended Davidson College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Wright has been widely published, winning the National Book Award in...
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1993  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1998 Black zodiac
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 1997 Black zodiac
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry 1998 Black zodiac
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x Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Oct 27, 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982 The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria...
x Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov Feb 29, 1920 Bollingen Prize 1981  
Howard Nemerov (29 February 1920 – 5 July 1991) was American poet, twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for...
National Book Award for Poetry 1978 The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1978 Collected Poems
St. Louis Literary Award 1979  
x James Schuyler James Schuyler.jpg Nov 9, 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1981 The Morning of the Poem
James Marcus Schuyler (9 November 1923 – 12 April 1991) was a major American poet in the late 20th century. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School of poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara,...
x Lisel Mueller Lisel Mueller.jpg Feb 8, 1924 National Book Award for Poetry 1981 The Need to Hold Still
Lisel Mueller (born February 8, 1924) is an award-winning American poet. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924 and immigrated to America at the age of 15. Her father, Fritz Neumann, was a professor at Evansville College. Her mother died in 1953....
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2002  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
James Laughlin Award 1975 The Private Life
x Philip Levine Phil Levine by David Shankbone Jan 10, 1928 National Book Award for Poetry 1980 Ashes : poems new & old
Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
National Book Award for Poetry 1991 What Work Is
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1987  
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1995 The simple truth
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 1979 Ashes : poems new & old
x W. S. Merwin W.S. Merwin.jpg Sep 30, 1927 Bollingen Prize 1979  
William Stanley Merwin (New York City, September 30, 1927) is an American poet. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 80s and 90s, Merwin's writing...
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award 2004  
National Book Award for Poetry 2005 Migration: New & Selected Poems
Wallace Stevens Award 1994  
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1998  
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x James Merrill poet James Merrill, age 30, in a 1957 publicity photograph for The Seraglio Mar 3, 1926 Bollingen Prize 1973  
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist (if deeply emotional) lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic...
National Book Award for Poetry 1979 Mirabell: Book of Numbers
National Book Award for Poetry 1967 Nights and Days
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1977 Divine Comedies
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 1983 The Changing Light at Sandover
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x James Wright James Wright.jpg Dec 13, 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1972 Collected Poems
James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale...
x Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur.jpg Mar 1, 1921 Bollingen Prize 1971  
Richard Purdy Wilbur (born 1 March 1921) is an American poet. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989. Wilbur was...
National Book Award for Poetry 1957 Things of This World
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2006  
Wallace Stevens Award 2003  
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation 1994  
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x Elizabeth Bishop EBPL Feb 8, 1911 National Book Award for Poetry 1970 The Complete Poems
Elizabeth Bishop (8 February 1911 – 6 October 1979) was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artist's retreat in Great...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1956 Poems - North & South
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 1976 Geography III
x George Oppen George Oppen on board Galley Board, Long Island Sound, 1935; a picture featured on "Selected Poems" (2003) Apr 24, 1908 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1969 Of Being Numerous
George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the...
x Karl Shapiro Karl Shapiro.jpg Nov 10, 1913 Bollingen Prize 1969  
Karl Jay Shapiro (10 November 1913, Baltimore, Maryland – 14 May 2000, New York City) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. Karl Shapiro attended the University of...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1945 V-Letter and Other Poems
x John Berryman John Berryman.jpg Oct 25, 1914 Bollingen Prize 1969  
John Allyn Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.) (October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the...
National Book Award for Poetry 1969 His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1965 77 Dream Songs
x Anne Sexton Anne-sexton Nov 9, 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1967 Live or Die
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts–October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts) was an influential American poet and writer known for her highly personal, confessional poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her...
x Louis Simpson Louis Simpson.jpg Mar 27, 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1964 At The End Of The Open Road
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in Jamaica) is an American poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road. His father was a lawyer of Scottish descent, and his mother Russian. At 17 he...
x Robert Frost Robert Frost NYWTS Mar 26, 1874 Bollingen Prize 1963  
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1943 A Witness Tree
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1937 A Further Range
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1931 The Collected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1924 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
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x Richard Eberhart Richard Eberhart.jpg Apr 5, 1904 Bollingen Prize 1962  
Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. He received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems: 1930-1965 and a...
National Book Award for Poetry 1977 Collected Poems, 1930-1976
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1966 Selected Poems
Frost Medal 1986  
x Phyllis McGinley Phyllis McGinley.jpg Mar 21, 1905 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
Phyllis McGinley (March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978) was an U.S. writer of children's books and poet about the positive aspects of suburban life. McGinley was born in Ontario, Oregon. At age 3, her family moved to Colorado, and on to Ogden, Utah...
x Robert Lowell Rlowell Mar 1, 1917 National Book Award for Poetry 1960 Life Studies
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946....
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1974 The Dolphin
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1947 Lord Weary's Castle
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 1977 Day by Day
Ambassador Book Award for American Arts and Letters 1988 Collected Prose
x William De Witt Snodgrass W. D. Snodgrass.jpg Jan 5, 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1960 Heart's Needle
William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. William De Witt Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh and...
x Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke.jpg May 25, 1908 Bollingen Prize 1959  
Theodore Huebner Roethke (pronounced /ˈrɛtkə/ RET-keh) (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in...
National Book Award for Poetry 1965 The Far Field
National Book Award for Poetry 1959 Words for the Wind
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1954 The Waking
x Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish May 7, 1892 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1959 J.B.
Archibald MacLeish (7 May 1892 – 20 April 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. MacLeish was born in Glencoe,...
Bollingen Prize 1953  
National Book Award for Poetry 1953 Collected Poems, 1917-1952
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1953 Collected Poems, 1917-1952
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1933 Conquistador
x Conrad Aiken ConradAikenBench Aug 5, 1889 Bollingen Prize 1956  
Conrad Potter Aiken (5 August 1889 – 17 August 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, and an autobiography. Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia. When Aiken was eleven years of age, his physician...
National Book Award for Poetry 1954 Collected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1930 Selected Poems
x W. H. Auden W. H. Auden Feb 21, 1907 Bollingen Prize 1954  
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973, pronounced /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/) who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of...
National Book Award for Poetry 1956 The Shield of Achilles
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1948 The Age of Anxiety
St. Louis Literary Award 1970  
x William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams, who was the only poet to be published as both an Objectivist and an Imagist Sep 17, 1883 Bollingen Prize 1953  
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), also known as WCW, was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a...
National Book Award for Poetry 1950 Paterson: Book III
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1963 Selected Poems
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
x Marianne Moore Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Nov 15, 1887 Bollingen Prize 1952  
Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer noted for her irony and wit. Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle...
National Book Award for Poetry 1952 Collected Poems
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1952 Collected Poems
Frost Medal 1967  
x Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg NYWTS Jan 6, 1878 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1951 Collected Poems
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg ...
Pulitzer Prize for History 1940 Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
Frost Medal 1952  
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