List of winners of the Academy of American Poets' Fellowship

List of winners of the Academy Fellowship is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement" at mid-career, by the Academy of American Poets.

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.

It 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."

Academy Fellows:

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

External links

• Academy of American Poets website