Shelley Memorial Award

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.

Winners

Winners of the Shelley Memorial Prize: [Society of America Web site, Web page titled "The Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award Winners", accessed October 29, 2006]
*2007 — Kimiko Hahn
*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 Kinnell
*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

ee also

*American poetry
*List of poetry awards
*List of literature awards
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature

References

External links

* [http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_frsh.html] Shelley Memorial Award description at the Poetry Society of America Web site