Poetry Society of America
- Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets including Witter Bynner. Past members of the [http://www.poetrysociety.org Society] have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. Current members include John Ashbery, Louise Glück, Rita Dove, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Molly Peacock, Billy Collins and James Tate.
Former Executive Directors have included Jason Shinder, Judith Baumel, and Elise Paschen. The current Director is Alice Quinn.
In 1915 the Society began conferring awards honoring innovation and mastery of the form by emerging and established American poets. Over the past 90 years, the recipients have included John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Pinsky.
In 1930 the Society began awarding the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement in American poetry, and in the same year began awarding the Shelley Award and stipend to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need. In 1984 the Frost Medal became an annual award. The Shelley has been awarded every year since 1930, except for 1933.
Awards given by the society
*Frost Medal
*Shelley Memorial Award — since 1929, offered by the society to a poet living in the United States who is chosen on the basis of "genius and need."
*Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
*Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
*Lyric Poetry Award
*Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
*Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
*Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award
*George Bogin Memorial Award
*Roberth H. Winner Memorial Award
*Norma Farber First Book Award
*William Carlos Williams Award — offered by the society for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit, or university press
External links
* [http://www.poetrysociety.org/index.html Poetry Society of America web site]
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