Frost Medalists
Awarded annually at the discretion of the Poetry Society of America's Board of Governors for distinguished lifetime achievement in American Poetry.
 2013 Robert Bly |
 2012 Marilyn Nelson |
 2011 Charles Simic |
 2010 Lucille Clifton |
 2009 X. J. Kennedy |
 2008 Michael S. Harper |
 2007 John Hollander |
 2006 Maxine Kumin |
 2005 Marie Ponsot |
 2004 Richard Howard |
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 2002 Galway Kinnell |
 2001 Sonia Sanchez |
 2000 Anthony Hecht |
 1999 Barbara Guest |
 1998 Stanley Kunitz |
 1997 Josephine Jacobsen |
 1996 Richard Wilbur |
 1995 John Ashbery |
 1994 A. R. Ammons |
 1993 William Stafford |
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  1992 Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow |
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 1991 Donald Hall |
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  1990 Denise Levertov / James Laughlin |
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 1989 Gwendolyn Brooks |
 1988 Carolyn Kizer |
  1987 Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown |
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  1986 Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart |
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 1985 Robert Penn Warren |
1984 Jack Stadler |
 1976 A. M. Sullivan |
 1974 John Hall Wheelock |
 1971 Melville Cane |
 1967 Marianne Moore |
 1955 Leona Speyer |
 1952 Carl Sandburg |
 1951 Wallace Stevens |
 1947 Gustav Davidson |
 1943 Edna St. Vincent Millay |
 1942 Edgar Lee Masters |
 1941 Robert Frost |
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  1930 Bliss Carmen (In Memory) / George Edward Woodbery (In Memory) |
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 1930 Jessie Rittenhouse |
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