Golden Rose Award
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The Golden Rose Award, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, was inaugurated in 1919.
The rose was modeled after the Gold Rose which is now in the Cluny Museum in Paris. The New England Poetry Club awards the Rose annually for American poetry.
The rose was modeled after the Gold Rose which is now in the Cluny Museum in Paris. The New England Poetry Club awards the Rose annually for American poetry.
List of winners
| Earl Marlatt Earl Marlatt Earl Bowman Marlatt Earl Bowman Marlatt Earl Bowman Marlatt (born May 24, 1892 Columbus, Indiana - June 13, 1976 Winchester, Indiana was an American theologian and poet.-Life:He graduated from DePauw University. He served in World War I and graduated from Boston University School of Theology.... |
Marshall Schact Marshall Schact Marshall Walter Schacht was an American poet. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.-Life:His work appeared in Poetry Magazine, the New Yorker.... |
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| Katherine Lee Bates | Robert Frost Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and... |
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| Joseph Auslander Joseph Auslander Joseph Auslander was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist... |
Nancy Byrd Turner Nancy Byrd Turner Nancy Byrd Turner was an American poet, editor and lecturer.-Life:Nancy Byrd Turner, born in Boydton, Virginia, was the eldest child of Rev. Byrd Thornton and Nancy Turner.... |
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| Robert Hillyer Robert Hillyer Robert Silliman Hillyer was an American poet.-Life:He was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He attended Kent School in Kent, Connecticut and graduated from Harvard in 1917, after which he went to France and volunteered with the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps serving the Allied... |
S. Foster Damon S. Foster Damon S Foster Damon was an American academic, a specialist in William Blake, a critic and a poet. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He was one of the Harvard Aesthetes, and married Louise Wheelwright, sister of John Wheelwright who was another poet identified with that grouping... |
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| Frances Frost Frances Frost Frances Frost was an American poet, novelist and mother of poet Paul Blackburn.-Life:... |
Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:... |
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| Gretchen Osgood Warren Gretchen Osgood Warren Gretchen Osgood Warren ; the wife of Fiske Warren was an actress, singer and poet. The daughter of Dr. Hamilton Osgood and Margaret Cushing Osgood of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, her younger sister was Mary Alden Childers wife of writer and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers.-Early... |
Robert P. T. Coffin Robert P. T. Coffin Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was a writer, poet and professor at Wells College and Bowdoin College . He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936.-Life:... |
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| John Hall Wheelock John Hall Wheelock John Hall Wheelock was an American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.He wrote fourteen books of poetry and was co-winner of the 1962 Bollingen Prize... |
John Holmes John Holmes (poet) John Holmes , born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a professor of literature and modern poetry for 28 years. He wrote several volumes of poetry and the lyrics to several Unitarian... |
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| Leonora Speyer Leonora Speyer Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer was an American poet and violinist.-Life:She was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Stosch of Mantze in Silesia, who fought for the Union.... |
Kenneth Porter | |
| David McCord David McCord David Thompson Watson McCord was an American poet, and college fundraiser.-Life:He grew up in Portland, Oregon.He graduated from Harvard University.His work appeared in Harper's,... |
Robert Francis Robert 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... |
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| Amos Wilder Amos Wilder Amos Niven Wilder was an American poet, minister, and theology professor.-Life:He studied two years at Oberlin College , but volunteered in the Ambulance Field Service; he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. In November 1917, he enlisted in the U.S... |
Theodore Spencer Theodore Spencer -Life:He graduated from Princeton University in 1923, and a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1928. He then taught there, from 1927 to 1949. He was appointed lecturer in English literature at Cambridge University, England, in 1939. In 1942, Spencer gave the Lowell lectures on Shakespeare, published... |
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| May Sarton May Sarton May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton , an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.-Biography:... |
David Morton David Morton David H. Morton was an American poet.Born in Elkton, Kentucky, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909.... |
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| John Ciardi John Ciardi John Anthony Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and... |
William Rose Benet William Rose Benét William Rose Benét was an American poet, writer, and editor.He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét.... |
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| Richard Eberhart Richard Eberhart Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total... |
Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.... |
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| Harry Elmore Hurd Harry Elmore Hurd Harry Elmore Hurd was an American poet, and minister.-Life:He graduated from Boston University in 1916, and Harvard University in 1922. He was a Chaplain, First Lieutenant with the 33rd Engineers during World War I... |
Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer was an American poet and magazine editor.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1911... |
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| Frances Minturn Howard Frances Minturn Howard Frances Minturn Howard was an American poet.-Life:She studied sculpture.In 1957, she met and corresponded with May Sarton.In 1959, Sylvia Plath came to dinner.... |
Dorothy Burnham Eaton | |
| Samuel French Morse Samuel French Morse Samuel French Morse was an American poet and teacher. The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize from 1983–2009, was for a first or second book of poems by a U.S. poet, a $1000 cash award, and publication of the winning manuscript by Northeastern University Press/UPNE.-Life:Samuel French Morse was born... |
Norma Farber Norma Farber Norma Holzmann Farber was an American children's book writer and poet. The Poetry Society of America presents the Norma Farber First Book Award; it is presented for a first book of original poetry written by an American.-Life:... |
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| Morris Bishop Morris Bishop Morris Gilbert Bishop was an American scholar, historian, biographer, author, and humorist.Raised in Canada and New York, he attended Cornell from 1910–1913, earning a Bachelor's in 1913 and then a Master of Arts degree in 1914... |
Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, and Beat Generation... |
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| Edwin Honig Edwin Honig Edwin 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.... |
Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov... |
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| Dudley Fitts Dudley Fitts Dudley Fitts was an American teacher, critic, poet, andtranslator. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Harvard University where he edited the Harvard Advocate. He taught at The Choate School 1926-1941 and at Phillips Academy at Andover 1941-1968... |
Robert Lowell Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948... |
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| Abbie Huston Evans Abbie Huston Evans Abbie Huston Evans was an American poet, and teacher.-Life:Her father, Bard Lewis Darenydd Evans immigrated to the United States, from Wales. He labored as a coal miner, until he was accepted for college... |
Louis Untermeyer Louis Untermeyer Louis Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.-Life and career:... |
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| Elizabeth Coatsworth Elizabeth Coatsworth Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth was an American author of children's fiction and poetry. Her novel The Cat Who Went to Heaven won the 1931 Newbery Medal.... |
L.E. Sissman L.E. Sissman Louis Edward Sissman was a poet and advertising executive.-Life:Sissman was raised in Detroit. He went to private schools, and in 1941 he became a national spelling champion. He was a Quiz Kid.... |
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| Allen Grossman Allen Grossman Allen Grossman is a noted American poet, critic and professor.-Biography:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1932, Grossman was educated at Harvard University, graduating with an MA in 1956 after several interruptions. He went on to receive a PhD from Brandeis University in 1960, where he remained a... |
Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz Stanley 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:... |
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| Constance Carrier Constance Carrier -Life:Carrier was descended from Martha Carrier, one of the women hanged during the notorious Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials of 1692, the subject of her last volume.... |
Charles Edward Eaton Charles Edward Eaton -Life:He was born in Winston-Salem, N.C. Eaton received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1936, studied at Princeton, and received his M.A. degree from Harvard, where he worked with Robert Frost, who later recommended him to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.Eaton served as... |
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| Barbara Howes Barbara Howes Barbara Howes was an American poet.-Life:She was adopted by well-to-do Massachusetts family, and reared chiefly in Chestnut Hill, where she attended Beaver Country Day School. She graduated from Bennington College in 1937... |
X.J. Kennedy | |
| Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935... |
Robert Fitzgerald Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin... |
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| Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982.-Early years:... |
J.V. Cunningham | |
| John Updike John Updike John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.... |
William Jay Smith William Jay Smith William Jay Smith is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.- Life :... |
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| Peter Viereck Peter Viereck Peter Robert Edwin Viereck , was an American poet and political thinker, as well as a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College for five decades.-Background:... |
James Merrill James Merrill James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies... |
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| Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell Galway 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... |
May Swenson May Swenson Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright... |
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| Philip Levine Philip Levine (poet) Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well... |
John Hollander John Hollander John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University... |
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| Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros... |
Donald Hall Donald Hall Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:... |
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| W.S. Merwin | Marge Piercy Marge Piercy Marge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.-Biography:... |
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| Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Adrienne 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:... |
Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes... |
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| F.D. Reeve F.D. Reeve Franklin D'Olier Reeve is an academic, writer, poet, Russian translator, and editor. He is also the father of late actor Christopher Reeve... |
Frank Bidart Frank Bidart Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet.-Biography:In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop... |
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| Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. He defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind is a classic of... |
Mary Oliver Mary Oliver Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:... |
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| William Meredith William Meredith William Meredith may refer to:* Billy Meredith , Welsh international winger, oft described as "football's first superstar"* William Morris Meredith, Jr. , American poet and Pulitzer Prize laureate... |
Robert Creeley Robert Creeley Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P... |
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| Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry... |
Sharon Olds Sharon Olds -Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad... |
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers... |
David Ferry David Ferry David Ferry may refer to:* David Ferry , Canadian-born actor* David Ferry , American poet and translatorSee also*David Ferrie, pilot... |
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| Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A... |
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