The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition.... in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry
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The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition.... in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
The Pulitzer Prize jury has the option of awarding special citations where they consider necessary.... were presented in 1918
1918 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... and 1919
1919 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... .
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyric poetry and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, Bohemianism lifestyle and her many love affairs....
New Hampshire is a 1923 in literature Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning volume of poetry written by Robert Frost. The book included several of Frost's best-known poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Illustrations for the book were provided by woodcut artist and Frost friend J.... by 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....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowell was an United States poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .EventsFile:Hermann Hesse 1927 Photo Gret Widmann.jpg... :Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer was an American poet and violinist.She was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Stosch of Mantze in Silesia....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Ben?t was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Ben?t is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster and By the Waters of Babylon....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken
Conrad Potter Aiken was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short story, novels, and an autobiography.He was born in Savannah, Georgia....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Collected Poems by 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....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .Events*William Butler Yeats rents a house in Dublin.... :The Flowering Stone by George Dillon
George Dillon
George Hill Dillon was an American editor and poet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernism school of poetry. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer
Robert Hillyer
Robert Silliman Hillyer was an American poet. He had long links to Harvard University, including holding a position as a Professor of English. He also taught at Kenyon College and the University of Delaware....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann
Audrey Wurdemann
Audrey Wurdemann was an American poetry, and the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry at the age of 24, for her collection Bright Ambush....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :A Further Range by 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....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska
Marya Zaturenska
Marya Zaturenska was an United States Lyric poetry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938. She was born in Kiev and her family emigrated to the United States when she was eight and lived in New York....
— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939"Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .Events... :Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher
John Gould Fletcher
John Gould Fletcher was a Pulitzer Prize winning Imagist poetry and author. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a socially prominent family....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic. He was born in the town of Hope in Vermilion County, Illinois. The son of the county's doctor, he was raised on his family's farm in eastern Illinois....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon
Leonard Bacon (poet)
Leonard Bacon was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poetry, translator, and literary critic. He graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until his retirement in 1923....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet
William Rose Benét
William Rose Ben?t was an American poet, writer, and editor.He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Ben?t.He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated The Albany Academy in Albany, NY and at Yale University....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :A Witness Tree by 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....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Ben?t was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Ben?t is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster and By the Waters of Babylon....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Lord Weary's Castle by 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 in 1946....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety (poem)
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxons alliterative verse.... by W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
Peter Viereck
Peter Robert Edwin Viereck , was a Pulitzer prize-winning poet and influential political thinker as well as a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College for five decades....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was an United States writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernism school of poetry. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Waking by Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was a United States Modernism poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life working for an insurance company in Connecticut....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 and in 1989....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1974 and again in 2000....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley was an U.S. writer of children's books and poet about the positive aspects of suburban life. McGinley was born in Ontario, Oregon....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Poems by Alan Dugan
Alan Dugan
Alan Dugan was an United States poet. His poetry is known for its plain and direct language, though it is supported by technical skill; it is generally trenchant and ironic in its criticism of American life and received ideas, and in its frank sensuality alike....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was an list of American poets closely associated with Modernist poetry and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson
Louis Simpson
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson is a Jamaican Poetry. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.His father was a lawyer of Scotland descent, and his mother Russian....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
John Berryman
John Allyn Berryman was an United States poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional poetry school of poetry....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart
Richard Eberhart
Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poetry who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. He received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems: 1930-1965 and a National Book Award in 1977 for Collected Poems: 1930-1976....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht
Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the World War II, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Of Being Numerous by George Oppen
George Oppen
George Oppen was an United States poetry poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist poets group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
Richard Howard
Richard Howard is a distinguished United States poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he now teaches....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Collected Poems by James Wright
James Wright (poet)
James Arlington Wright was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States poet.Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Dolphin by 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 in 1946....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder is an American poet , essayist, lecturer, and environmentalism . Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhism spirituality and nature....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
John Ashbery
John Ashbery is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Divine Comedies
Divine Comedies
Published in 1976, Divine Comedies is the seventh book of poetry by James Merrill . It includes "Lost in Translation " and all of The Book of Ephraim.... by James Merrill
James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill was a Pulitzer Prize winning United States poet. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov was American poet, twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Selected Poems by Donald Justice
Donald Justice
Donald Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing. He graduated from the University of Miami and went on to teach for many years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's first graduate program in creative writing....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
James Schuyler
James Marcus Schuyler was a major United States poet in the late 20th century. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School of poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .Events*Final edition of This Magazine published.... :The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an United States poet, novelist and short story writer.Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Flying Change by Henry S. Taylor
Henry S. Taylor
Henry S. Taylor is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and author of over 15 books of poetry.Taylor was born on 21 June 1942 in rural Loudoun County, Virginia....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1993, and received a second special appointment in 1999....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
William Morris Meredith, Jr.
William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 and in 1989....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
Charles Simic
Du?an ?Charles? Simic is a Serbs-American poet, and co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Selected Poems by James Tate
James Tate (writer)
James Vincent Tate is an American poet who has received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Gl?ck is an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1999, and again in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, also for Neon Vernacular, and the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poet...
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
Philip Levine (poet)
Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning United States poet. He taught for many years at California State University, Fresno. More recently he is the Distinguished Poet in Residence for the Creative Writing Program at New York University....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller is a prize-winning American poet.She was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924 and immigrated to America at the age of 15. Her father, Fritz Neumann, was a professor at Evansville College....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Repair by C. K. Williams
C. K. Williams
Charles Kenneth Williams is an United States poet.He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and received his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn is an American poet. Dunn has written fourteen collections of poetry, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis , an American poet and educator, wrote Practical Gods, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 17, 1939, Dennis attended Oberlin College and the University of Chicago prior to receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1961....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
Franz Wright
Franz Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.Born in Vienna, Austria, and educated at Oberlin College , Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2004 for his book Walking to Martha's Vineyard ....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson is an United States poetry who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife. She is a professor of English and Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard. Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi....
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .... :Time and Materials by Robert Hass
Robert Hass
Robert L. Hass is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.... and Failure by Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City....
This is a list of awards that are, or have been, given out to writers of poetry, either for a specific poem, collection of poems, or body of work.Thousands of poetry awards and prizes are given throughout the world, ranging from the very well-respected to those that are little more than cons scamming would-be poets of their money , so called Vani...
This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry . These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry....
This page gives a chronological list of years in literature , with notable publications listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance literature, Baroque literature and History of modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century....
