Bollingen Prize in Poetry

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The Bollingen Prize in Poetry, a prestigious literary honor given by the Beinecke Library of Yale University, is currently awarded every two years.


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
Archie Randolph 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 Jackson and Donald Justice
1993
Mark Strand
1995
Kenneth Koch
1997
Gary Snyder
1999
Robert Creeley
2001
Louise Glück
2003
Adrienne Rich
2005
Jay Wright
2007
Frank Bidart
2009
Allen Grossman
2011
Susan Howe
2013
Charles Wright
2015
Nathaniel Mackey

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