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Robert Creeley is the winner of the Lannan Foundation's latest Lifetime Achievement Award for 'writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature.' He received an honorarium of $200,000. John [...]

Louise Gluck has won the $50,000 Bollingen Prize for Vita Nuova (Ecco, 1999). The biennial prize, adminsitered by the Yale University Library, is given to a living U.S. poet for [...]

The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry announced that the Canadian and International winners of the first annual Griffin Poetry Prize are Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours (Alfred [...]

Among the fifteen recipients of the 2001 Bush Artist Fellowships are poets Jonathan Brannen, Sarah Fox, and Adrian Louis. Each will receive $40,000 over a twelve- to eighteen-month period. Established [...]

On April 20th, the Poetry Society of America hosted its 91st annual Awards Ceremony at the New School in New York City. Sonia Sanchez, upon whom the Frost Medal was [...]

Stephen McLeod's manuscript, The Borgo of the Holy Ghost, is the winner of this year's May Swenson Poetry Award. Offered through Utah State University Press, the distinction includes a $1,000 [...]

Maurice Manning from Danville, Kentucky, is the new Yale Younger poet. His manuscript, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was selected by judge W. S. Merwin and will be issued by [...]

The Academy of American Poets announced that John Canaday has won the 2001 Walt Whitman Award for his first collection of poems, The Invisible World, which will be published by [...]

Ed Pavlic has received the forth annual American Poetry Review Honickman First Book Award for Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue. The award includes a $3,000 honorarium and [...]

Poet Anthony Piccione was one of four writers picked for YMCA National Writer's Voice Community Residencies. He will be paid $5,500 to conduct workshops and give readings in the Syracuse [...]

Eleanor Ross Taylor was given the $10,000 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Since 1986 the honor has been offered by The Sewanee Review to recognize a long and [...]

Alan Shapiro is the recipient of the $75,000 Kingsley Tufts Award, according to Claremont Graduate University, administrators of the annual prize. Shapiro's book, The Dead Alive and Busy (University of [...]

Stephen Dunn is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Different Hours (W. W. Norton). The Prize is in the amount of $7,500. ?? Seven poets are [...]

The Academy of American Poets announced that Frank Bidart is the winner of the $150,000 Wallace Stevens Award for 'outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.' Formerly known [...]

Herbert Morris and Jay Wright are the most recent recipients of Lannan Literary Awards for Poetry. Established in 1989 'to honor and recognize writers whose work is of exceptional quality,' [...]

This year POETRY awards eight prizes for poems published during the past twelve months in Volumes 175 and 176, October 1999 through September 2000. The Levinson Prize presented annually since [...]

C. K. Williams has been awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his eighth collection, Repair (Farrar Straus). Also nominated as finalists were Elegy for the Southern Drawl, by [...]

Carl Dennis is the winner of the 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, sponsored by POETRY--The Modern Poetry Association. The award will be presented by Thomas Ewbank, on behalf of the [...]

The Claremont Graduate University announced that Robert Wrigley has won the eighth annual Kinsley Tufts Poetry Award. The prize, in the amount of $50,000, is designed to aid a poet [...]

Adrienne Rich has received the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award of $100,000 from the Lannan Foundation. Other Lannan Literary Awards, in the amount of $75,000 each, were presented to the poets [...]

Poets Lucille Clifton, W. S. Di Piero, Jack Gilbert, Mark Halliday, Ed Roberson, Gary Snyder, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Rosemarie Waldrop are among the recipients of 1998 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest [...]

Maxine Kumin is the winner of the 1999 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The award will be presented by Thomas Ewbank, on behalf of the donor, Mrs. Ruth Lilly of Indianapolis, [...]

Judges Gary Snyder, Carolyn Kizer, and Landgon Hammer have named Robert Creeley the 1999 winner of the biennial Bollingen Prize in Poetry. The Prize, which includes a cash award of [...]

THE LEVINSON PRIZE, presented annually since 1914 through the generosity of the late Salmon O. Levinson and his family, and now permanently endowed, for the sum of five hundred dollars, [...]

THE LEVINSON PRIZE, presented annually since 1914 through the generosity of the late Salmon O. Levinson and his family, and now permanently endowed, for the sum of five hundred dollars, [...]

Last spring Adrienne Rich was named the winner of Yale University's 2003 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry for lifetime achievement. Willard Spiegelman, Louise Gluck, and John Hollander made the selection. [...]

The Academy of American Poets announced that Ruth Stone has received the Wallace Stevens Award in the amount of $150,000 for mastery in the art of poetry. Marie Howe, Galway [...]

Nick Flynn won the 2001-2002 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarhip to spend a year abroad in a country of his choosing. The Scholarship carries a stipend of $37,000. The Academy [...]

THE LEVINSON PRIZE, presented annually since 1914 through the generosity of the late Salmon O. Levinson and his family, for the sum of five hundred dollars, is awarded to Carolyn [...]

Linda Pastan is the winner of the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The award was presented by Thomas Ewbank, on behalf of the donor, Mrs. Ruth Lilly of Indianapolis, in [...]

Carl Dennis won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Practical Gods (Penguin, 2001). The Prize includes an honorarium of $7,500. [??] Poets Erica Hunt and Anne Waldman [...]