List of winners of the Academy of American Poets fellowship explained

The Academy Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement" at mid-career. Fellows are awarded a stipend which is $25,000. The fellowship program was created in 1946, since 1995 given in memory of James Ingram Merrill.

The fellowship was the first of the academy's portfolio of awards; the academy's website describes it as "the first of its kind in the United States."^[1]

Academy fellows:

• 1937 Edwin Markham
• 1946 Edgar Lee Masters
• 1947 Ridgely Torrence
• 1948 Percy MacKaye
• 1950 E. E. Cummings
• 1952 Padraic Colum
• 1953 Robert Frost
• 1954 Louise Townsend Nicholl; Oliver St. John Gogarty
• 1955 Rolfe Humphries
• 1956 William Carlos Williams
• 1957 Conrad Aiken
• 1958 Robinson Jeffers
• 1959 Louise Bogan
• 1960 Jesse Stuart
• 1961 Horace Gregory
• 1962 John Crowe Ransom
• 1963 Ezra Pound; Allen Tate
• 1964 Elizabeth Bishop^[2]
• 1965 Marianne Moore
• 1966 Archibald MacLeish; John Berryman
• 1967 Mark Van Doren
• 1968 Stanley Kunitz
• 1969 Richard Eberhart; Anthony Hecht
• 1970 Howard Nemerov
• 1971 James Wright
• 1972 W. D. Snodgrass
• 1973 W. S. Merwin
• 1974 Léonie Adams
• 1975 Robert Hayden
• 1976 J. V. Cunningham
• 1977 Louis Coxe
• 1978 Josephine Miles
• 1979 May Swenson; Mark Strand^[3]
• 1980 Mona Van Duyn
• 1981 Richard Hugo
• 1982 John Frederick Nims; John Ashbery
• 1983 James Schuyler; Philip Booth
• 1984 Richmond Lattimore; Robert Francis
• 1985 Amy Clampitt; Maxine Kumin
• 1986 Irving Feldman; Howard Moss
• 1987 Josephine Jacobsen; Alfred Corn
• 1988 Donald Justice
• 1989 Richard Howard
• 1990 William Meredith
• 1991 J. D. McClatchy
• 1992 Adrienne Rich
• 1993 Gerald Stern
• 1994 David Ferry
• 1995 Denise Levertov
• 1996 Jay Wright
• 1997 John Haines^[4]
• 1998 Charles Simic
• 1999 Gwendolyn Brooks
• 2000 Lyn Hejinian
• 2001 Ellen Bryant Voigt
• 2002 Sharon Olds
• 2003 Li-Young Lee
• 2004 Jane Hirshfield
• 2005 Claudia Rankine^[5]
• 2006 Carl Phillips^[6]
• 2007 James McMichael
• 2008 Brigit Pegeen Kelly^[7]
• 2009 Harryette Mullen
• 2010 Khaled Mattawa
• 2011 Joan Larkin
• 2012 Brenda Hillman
• 2013 Carolyn Forché
• 2014 Tracy K. Smith
• 2015 Marie Howe
• 2016 Natasha Trethewey
• 2017 Ed Roberson
• 2018 Martín Espada
• 2019 Ilya Kaminsky
• 2020 Carmen Giménez Smith

External links

• Academy of American Poets website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Academy Fellowship . Academy of American Poets . 2009-05-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090301175948/http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/106 . 2009-03-01 . dead .
2. Web site: "Elizabeth Bishop" related terms, short phrases and links. keywen.com.
3. Web site: Mark Strand Strand, Mark - Essay - eNotes.com. eNotes.
4. Web site: The Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry - the Sewanee Review - Sewanee :: The University of the South . 2010-09-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100912201605/http://www.sewanee.edu/sewanee_review/aiken_taylor . 2010-09-12 .
5. Web site: "POETRY FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL PROJECT OF POETRY INSTITUTE", Cave Canem Foundation.
6. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-06-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070723213640/http://www.graywolfpress.org/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=701 . 2007-07-23 .
7. Web site: Kelly honored with Academy of American Poets fellowship . news.illinois.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716024756/http://news.illinois.edu/ii/08/0918/kelly.html . 2011-07-16.