Shelley Memorial Award
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The Shelley Memorial Award of more than $3,500, given out by the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of the late Mary P. Sears, The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need.
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[edit] Winners
Winners of the Shelley Memorial Prize (click on years to get that "year in literature" Wikipedia article):[1]
- 2006 — George Stanley
- 2005 — Lyn Hejinian
- 2004 — Yusef Komunyakaa
- 2002/2003 — James McMichael
- 2001/2002 — Angela Jackson / Marie Ponsot
- 2000/2001 — Alice Notley / Michael Palmer
- 1999/2000 — Jean Valentine
- 1998/1999 — Tom Sleigh
- 1997/1998 — Eleanor Ross Taylor
- 1996/1997 — Frank Bidart
- 1995/1996 — Robert Pinsky / Anne Waldman
- 1994/1995 — Stanley Kunitz
- 1993/1994 — Kenneth Koch / Cathy Song
- 1992/1993 — Josephine Jacobsen
- 1991/1992 — Lucille Clifton
- 1990/1991 — Shirley Kaufman
- 1989/1990 — Thom Gunn
- 1988/1989 — Thomas McGrath / Theodore Weiss
- 1987/1988 — Dennis Schmitz
- 1986/1987 — Mona Van Duyn
- 1985/1986 — Gary Snyder
- 1984/1985 — Etheridge Knight
- 1983/1984 — Denise Levertov / Robert Duncan
- 1982/1983 — Jon Anderson / Leo Connellan
- 1981/1982 — Alan Dugan
- 1980/1981 — Robert Creeley
- 1979/1980 — Julia Randall
- 1978/1979 — Hayden Carruth
- 1977/1978 — Jane Cooper / William Everson
- 1976/1977 — Muriel Rukeyser
- 1975/1976 — Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1974/1975 — Edward Field
- 1973/1974 — W.S. Merwin
- 1972/1973 — John Ashbery / Richard Wilbur
- 1971/1972 — Galway Kinnel
- 1970/1971 — Adrienne Rich / Louise Townsend Nicholl
- 1969/1970 — X.J. Kennedy / Mary Oliver
- 1968/1969 — Anne Stanford
- 1967/1968 — May Swenson
- 1966/1967 — Anne Sexton
- 1965/1966 — David Ignatow
- 1964/1965 — Ruth Stone
- 1963/1964 — William Stafford
- 1962/1963 — Eric Barker
- 1961/1962 — Theodore Roethke
- 1960/1961 — Robinson Jeffers
- 1959/1960 — Delmore Schwartz
- 1958/1959 — Rose Garcia Villa
- 1957/1958 — Kenneth Rexroth
- 1956/1957 — George Abbe
- 1955/1956 — Robert Fitzgerald
- 1954/1955 — Leonie Adams
- 1953/1954 — Kenneth Patchen
- 1952/1953 — Elizabeth Bishop
- 1951/1952 — Richard Eberhardt
- 1950/1951 — Jeremy Ingalls
- 1949/1950 — Louis Kent
- 1948/1949 — John Berryman
- 1947/1948 — Janet Lewis
- 1946/1947 — Rolfe Humphries
- 1945/1946 — Karl Shapiro
- 1944/1945 — E.E. Cummings
- 1943/1944 — Edgar Lee Masters
- 1942/1943 — Robert Penn Warren
- 1941/1942 — Ridgely Torrence
- 1940/1941 — Marianne Moore
- 1939/1940 — Herbert Bruncken / Winfield T. Scott
- 1938/1939 — Robert Francis / Harry Bown
- 1937/1938 — Lincoln Fitzell
- 1936/1937 — Charlotte Wilder / Ben Belitt
- 1935/1936 — Josephine Miles
- 1934/1935 — Lola Ridge /Marya Zaturenska
- 1933/1934 — Lola Ridge / Frances Frost
- 1931/1932 — Archibald MacLeish
- 1930/1931 — Lizette Woodworth Reese
- 1929/1930 — Conrad Aiken
[edit] See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
[edit] References
- ^ Society of America Web site, Web page titled 'The Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award Winners", accessed October 29, 2006
[edit] External links
- [1] Shelley Memorial Award description at the Poetry Society of America Web site
