Frost Medal

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The Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement.

The medal was first awarded in 1930, to three individuals

In Memory of Bliss Carmen (Canadian)

In memory of George Edward Woodberry

and to Jessie Rittenhouse.

For the next 53 years, the Frost Medal was awarded only eleven times, to poets at the end of their careers. In 1984, it became an annual award to a living poet. Since 1995, the recipient of the Frost Medal has delivered the Frost Medal Lecture, a retrospective reading and talk that is the highlight of the Annual Awards Ceremony.

Robert Frost was the fourth recipient of the Frost Medal, in 1941, after he had retired from Amherst College.

The "Robert Frost Award" is a separate prize (with a $1,000 award) given out by the Robert Frost Foundation of Lawrence, Massachusetts.^[1]

Contents 1 Recipients 2 Notes 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Recipients

The Frost Medal winners (each year is a link to Wikipedia article for that year in literature):

• 2005 — Marie Ponsot

• 2004 — Richard Howard

• 2002/2003 — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• 2001/2002 — Galway Kinnell

• 2000/2001 — Sonia Sanchez

• 1999/2000 — Anthony Hecht

• 1998/1999 — Barbara Guest

• 1997/1998 — Stanley Kunitz

• 1996/1997 — Josephine Jacobsen

• 1995/1996 — Richard Wilbur

• 1994/1995 — John Ashbery

• 1993/1994 — A.R. Ammons

• 1992/1993 — William Stafford

• 1991/1992 — Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow

• 1990/1991 — Donald Hall

• 1989/1990 — Denise Levertov / James Laughlin

• 1988/1989 — Gwendolyn Brooks

• 1987/1988 — Carolyn Kizer

• 1986/1987 — Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
• 1985/1986 — Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart

• 1984/1985 — Robert Penn Warren (75th Birthday Celebration)

• 1983/1984 — Jack Stadler

• 1976 — A.M. Sullivan

• 1974 — John Hall Wheelock

• 1971 — Melville Cane

• 1967 — Marianne Moore

• 1955 — Leona Speyer

• 1952 — Carl Sandburg

• 1951 — Wallace Stevens

• 1947 — Gustav Davidson

• 1943 — Edna St. Vincent Millay

• 1942 — Edgar Lee Masters

• 1941 — Robert Frost

• 1930 — In Memory of Bliss Carmen

• 1930 — In memory of George Edward Woodberry

• 1930 — Jessie Rittenhouse

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Robert Frost Foundation Web site, with "Awards" page and "Past Winners" page, accessed April 24, 2008

[edit] See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of American literary awards
• List of literary awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

[edit] External links

• Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award Winners The Poetry Society of America