Shelley Memorial Award

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The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need, and is currently worth (2014) between $6,000 and $9,000. The selection is made by a jury of three poets: one each appointed by the presidents of Radcliffe and Berkeley, and the third by the Board of Governors of the Society.

Winners

Winners of the Shelley Memorial Prize:

2014 — Bernadette Mayer

2013 — Martín Espada / Lucia Perillo

2012 — Wanda Coleman

2011 — Rigoberto González / Joan Larkin

2010 — Kenneth Irby / Eileen Myles

2009 — Ron Padgett / Gary Young

2008 — Ed Roberson

2007 — Kimiko Hahn

2006 — George Stanley

2005 — Lyn Hejinian

2004 — Yusef Komunyakaa

2003 — James McMichael

2002 — Angela Jackson / Marie Ponsot

2001 — Alice Notley / Michael Palmer

2000 — Jean Valentine

1999 — Tom Sleigh

1998 — Eleanor Ross Taylor

1997 — Frank Bidart

1996 — Robert Pinsky / Anne Waldman

1995 — Stanley Kunitz

1994 — Cathy Song / Kenneth Koch

1993 — Josephine Jacobsen

1992 — Lucille Clifton

1991 — Shirley Kaufman

1990 — Thom Gunn

1989 — Thomas McGrath / Theodore Weiss

1988 — Dennis Schmitz

1987 — Mona Van Duyn

1986 — Gary Snyder

1985 — Etheridge Knight

1984 — Robert Duncan / Denise Levertov

1983 — Jon Anderson / Leo Connellan

1982 — Alan Dugan

1981 — Robert Creeley

1980 — Julia Randall

1979 — Hayden Carruth

1978 — Jane Cooper / William Everson

1977 — Muriel Rukeyser

1976 — Gwendolyn Brooks

1975 — Edward Field

1974 — W. S. Merwin

1973 — John Ashbery / Richard Wilbur

1972 — Galway Kinnell

1971 — Louise Townsend Nicholl / Adrienne Rich

1970 — X. J. Kennedy / Mary Oliver

1969 — Ann Stanford

1968 — May Swenson

1967 — Anne Sexton

1966 — David Ignatow

1965 — Ruth Stone

1964 — William Stafford

1963 — Eric Barker

1962 — Theodore Roethke

1961 — Robinson Jeffers

1960 — Delmore Schwartz

1959 — Jose Garcia Villa

1958 — Kenneth Rexroth

1957 — George Abbe

1956 — Robert Fitzgerald

1955 — Léonie Adams

1954 — Kenneth Patchen

1953 — Elizabeth Bishop

1952 — Richard Eberhart

1951 — Jeremy Ingalls

1950 — Louis Kent

1949 — John Berryman

1948 — Janet Lewis

1947 — Rolfe Humphries

1946 — Karl Shapiro

1945 — E. E. Cummings

1944 — Edgar Lee Masters

1943 — Robert Penn Warren

1942 — Ridgely Torrence

1941 — Marianne Moore

1940 — Herbert Bruncken / Winfield T. Scott

1939 — Harry Brown / Robert Francis

1938 — Lincoln Fitzell

1937 — Ben Belitt / Charlotte Wilder

1936 — Josephine Miles

1935 — Lola Ridge / Marya Zaturenska

1934 — Frances Frost / Lola Ridge

1932 — Archibald MacLeish

1931 — Lizette Woodworth Reese

1930 — Conrad Aiken

References

Shelley Memorial Award Wikipedia

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