Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
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The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work.
When poet Amy Lowell
died in 1925, her will established the scholarship, which is administered by the trustees at the law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart
in Boston, Massachusetts.
When poet Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.- Personal life:...
died in 1925, her will established the scholarship, which is administered by the trustees at the law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart
Choate, Hall & Stewart
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP is a Boston-based law firm founded in 1899. It is currently one of the largest law firms in the Greater Boston market, and one of the old-line Boston Brahmin firms which has previously been described by The New York Times as having a reputation for being "stuffy." Legal...
in Boston, Massachusetts.
Winners
- 2009-2010 Brian TurnerBrian Turner (American poet)Brian Turner is an American poet, essayist, and professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War...
- 2007-2008 David RoderickDavid RoderickDavid Roderick is an award-winning American poet, who is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro...
- 2006-2007 James ArthurJames ArthurJames Arthur was a Dominican friar and theologian.He was born in Limerick, Ireland, early in the 17th century and died most likely in 1670. He became a member of the Dominican Order in the convent of St...
- 2005-2006 Geri DoranGeri DoranGeri Doran was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1966. Doran has attended Vassar College, the University of Cambridge, the University of Florida , and Stanford University, where she held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry...
- 2004-2005 Mary Jane NealonMary Jane Nealon-Life:She was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey.She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.From 1976, she worked as a nurse in New Jersey and New York City. After Sept...
- 2003-2004 Mark WunderlichMark WunderlichMark Wunderlich ) is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin...
- 2002-2003 Rick HillesRick Hilles-Life:Rick Hilles was born in Canton, Ohio and grew up in North Canton , Ohio, where he attended North Canton Montessori before entering the public schools, receiving his diploma from Hoover High School....
- 2001-2002 Nick FlynnNick FlynnNick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. His most recent publication is a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins...
- 2000-2001 Richard FoersterRichard FoersterRichard Foerster is an American poet who has recently been awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry....
- 1999-2000 Phillis LevinPhillis Levin-Life:She is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin of Yardley, Pa.Phillis Levin graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, and The Johns Hopkins University in 1977....
- 1998-1999 Elizabeth MacklinElizabeth Macklin-Life:She read Spanish literature at SUNY Potsdam, and Complutense University of Madrid. In 1974 to 1999, worked at The New Yorker, living in New York City.She spent a year in Bilbao, Spain, until February 2000....
- 1997-1998 Caroline FinkelsteinCaroline Finkelstein-Life:As a girl, Finkelstein led what she calls “a bifurcated life, half American, half some idea of upper bourgeois European society...This upbringing maintains itself in many of my poems as mood, or attitude, or actual subject matter”....
- 1996-1997 Craig ArnoldCraig ArnoldCraig Arnold was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells , was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets...
- 1995-1996 Mary Jo SalterMary Jo SalterMary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...
- 1994-1995 Reginald ShepherdReginald ShepherdReginald Shepherd was an American poet, born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. He died of cancer in Penascola, Florida, in 2008.-Biography:...
(resigned) - 1993-1994 John DrexelJohn Drexel-Life and Work:A New England native, John Drexel is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and holds an M.A. in English from the University of Leeds, England, where his thesis adviser was Geoffrey Hill...
- 1992-1993 Daniel J. HallDaniel Hall (poet)-Life:Hall's first book, Hermit with Landscape, was selected by James Merrill as winner of the 1989 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.Hall's second book, Strange Relation, was selected by Mark Doty as winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series...
- 1991-1992 Sharon M. Van SluysSharon M. Van Sluys-Life:She taught at Washburn University, and University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was a marketing manager for the Association of American University Presses.Her work has appeared in Passages North Anthology.-Awards:...
- 1990-1991 Richard TillinghastRichard Tillinghast-Life:Richard Tillinghast is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, a graduate of Sewanee and Harvard . He has taught at Harvard as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer, at the University of California at Berkeley, in the college program at San Quentin Prison, at Sewanee, and the University of Michigan.Tillinghast...
- 1989-1990 Henri ColeHenri ColeHenri Cole is an award-winning American poet.-Biography:Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in...
- 1988-1989 Jeffrey HarrisonJeffrey HarrisonJeffrey W. Harrison is an American poet. His most recent poetry collection is The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems . His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century...
- 1987-1988 David WojahnDavid WojahnDavid Wojahn is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts...
- 1986-1987 Elizabeth SpiresElizabeth Spires-Life:She was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, and in many other literary magazines and anthologies, She lives in Baltimore with her...
- 1985-1986 Nicholas ChristopherNicholas Christopher-Background:Christopher graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. He teaches at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. His novels can be considered as magic realist...
- 1984-1985 Gjertrud SchnackenbergGjertrud SchnackenbergGjertrud Schnackenberg is an American poet.-Life:Schnackenberg graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1975. She lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University, and was Writer-in-Residence at Smith College and visiting fellow at St...
- 1983-1984 Nicholas ChristopherNicholas Christopher-Background:Christopher graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. He teaches at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. His novels can be considered as magic realist...
(resigned) - 1982-1983 Debora GregerDebora GregerDebora Greger is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist.She was raised in Richland, Washington....
- 1981-1982 Brad LeithauserBrad LeithauserBrad E. Leithauser is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he is now on faculty at The...
- 1980-1981 William LoganWilliam Logan (poet)William Logan is an American poet, critic and scholar.-Life:Logan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his wife, the poet and artist, Debora Greger...
- 1979-1980 Norman WilliamsNorman WilliamsNorman Francis Williams CGM DFM & Bar served as an air gunner in RAAF bombers in the Second World War, becoming its most highly decorated non-commissioned officer...
- 1978-1979 Edward HirschEdward HirschEdward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published eight books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial...
- 1977-1978 Lynn SukenickLynn SukenickLynn Luria Sukenick was an American poet.-Life:She received her undergraduate education at Brandeis University...
- 1976-1977 John HainesJohn HainesJohn Haines was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.John Meade Haines, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia, published nine collections of poetry. He was appointed the Poet Laureate of Alaska in 1969. A collection of critical essays about his poetry, The...
- 1975-1976 Jonathan AaronJonathan Aaron-Life:He graduated from the University of Chicago and Yale University Ph.D.His work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of books, The Boston Globe , and The Times Literary Supplement.Aaron was born and raised in...
- 1974-1975 Rika LesserRika LesserRika Lesser is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.-Life:Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things , and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C...
- 1973-1974 Kenneth O. HansonKenneth O. HansonKenneth O. Hanson was a teacher, translator, and poet.-Life:Hanson, a native of Idaho, received his B.A. from the University of Idaho, in 1942. He then pursued graduate study in comparative literature and the Chinese language at the University of Washington, where he was an instructor...
- 1972-1973 Robert PetersonRobert Peterson (poet)Robert Peterson was a widely anthologized American poet.-Life:His childhood was spent in San Francisco at the Fielding Hotel, a Union Square hotel owned by his adoptive parents....
- 1971-1972 Michael WolfeMichael WolfeMichael Wolfe is an American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of . He is also a frequent lecturer on Islamic issues at universities across the United States including Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, SUNY Buffalo, and Princeton...
- 1970-1971 Keith WaldropKeith WaldropKeith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal .With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press...
- 1969-1970 Galway KinnellGalway KinnellGalway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...
- 1968-1969 Edwin HonigEdwin HonigEdwin Honig was an American poet, playwright, and translator.-Life:He has published ten books of poetry, eight books of translation, five books of criticism and fiction, three books of plays....
- 1967-1968 Robert FrancisRobert Francis (poet)Robert Francis was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.-Life:Robert Francis was born on August 12, 1901 in Upland, Pennsylvania . He graduated from Harvard University in 1923. He would later attend the Graduate School of Education at Harvard where he once said...
- 1966-1967 Robert GrenierRobert Grenier (poet)Robert Grenier is a contemporary American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor of the influential magazine This...
- 1965-1966 Thomas McGrathThomas McGrath (poet)Thomas Matthew McGrath, was a celebrated American poet....
- 1964-1965 Robert BlyRobert BlyRobert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...
- 1963-1964 Miller WilliamsMiller WilliamsMiller Williams is an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He has authored over twenty-five books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments have been chronicled in Arkansas Biography. He is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's...
- 1962-1963 Byron VazakasByron VazakasByron Vazakas was an American poet, whose career extended from the modernist era well into the postmodernist period; nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1947.-Life:...
- 1961-1962 Adrienne Rich ConradAdrienne RichAdrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...
- 1960-1961 Judson JeromeJudson JeromeJudson Jerome was an American poet, author, and literary critic, perhaps best known for having written the poetry column for Writer's Digest for thirty years....
- 1959-1960 May SwensonMay SwensonAnna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright...
- 1958-1959 Kenneth RexrothKenneth RexrothKenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement...
- 1957-1958 Elizabeth BishopElizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
- 1956-1957 William AlfredWilliam AlfredWilliam Alfred was a playwright and Professor of English literature at Harvard University.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Alfred served in the Army tank corps in World War II, received a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1948, and received an M.A. in English from Harvard in 1949. He earned his Ph.D...
- 1955-1956 Joseph LanglandJoseph LanglandJoseph Langland was an American poet.-Life:He was raised in Northeastern Iowa on the family farm. Langland received both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Iowa. He served in the U.S. Army as an infantryman during World War II...
- 1954-1955 Stanley KunitzStanley KunitzStanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...
- 1953-1954 E. L. MayoE. L. MayoEdward Leslie Mayo was an American poet.-Life:He attended schools in Malden, Massachusetts, then Bates College in Lewiston, Maine....
See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature