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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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