Shelley Winners
Awarded to a living American poet, selected with reference to his or her genius and need.
The Shelley Memorial Award Winners
  2013 Lucia Perillo / Martín Espada |
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 2012 Wanda Coleman |
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  2011 Rigoberto Gonzalez / Joan Larkin |
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  2010 Kenneth Irby / Eileen Myles |
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  2009 Ron Padgett / Gary Young |
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 2008 Ed Roberson |
 2007 Kimiko Hahn |
 2006 George Stanley |
 2005 Lyn Hejinian |
 2004 Yusef Komunyakaa |
 2003 James McMichael |
  2002 Marie Ponsot / Angela Jackson |
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  2001 Michael Palmer / Alice Notley |
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 2000 Jean Valentine |
 1999 Tom Sleigh |
 1998 Eleanor Ross Taylor |
 1997 Frank Bidart |
  1996 Robert Pinsky / Anne Waldman |
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 1995 Stanley Kunitz |
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  1994 Kenneth Koch / Cathy Song |
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 1993 Josephine Jacobsen |
 1992 Lucille Clifton |
 1991 Shirley Kaufman |
 1990 Thom Gunn |
  1989 Thomas McGrath / Theodore Weiss |
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 1988 Dennis Schmitz |
 1987 Mona Van Duyn |
 1986 Gary Snyder |
 1985 Etheridge Knight |
  1984 Denise Levertov / Robert Duncan |
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  1983 Jon Anderson / Leo Connellan |
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 1982 Alan Dugan |
 1981 Robert Creeley |
 1980 Julia Randall |
 1979 Hayden Carruth |
  1978 Jane Cooper / William Everson |
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 1977 Muriel Rukyser |
 1976 Gwendolyn Brooks |
 1975 Edward Field |
 1974 W. S. Merwin |
  1973 John Ashbery / Richard Wilbur |
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 1972 Galway Kinnell |
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  1971 Adrienne Rich / Louise Townsend Nicholl |
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  1970 X. J. Kennedy / Mary Oliver |
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 1969 Anne Stanford |
 1968 May Swenson |
 1967 Anne Sexton |
 1966 David Ignatow |
 1965 Ruth Stone |
 1964 William Stafford |
 1963 Eric Baker |
 1962 Theodore Roethke |
 1961 Robinson Jeffers |
 1960 Delmore Schwartz |
 1959 Rose Garcia Villa |
 1958 Kenneth Rexroth |
 1957 George Abbe |
 1956 Robert Fitzgerald |
 1955 Leonie Adams |
 1954 Kenenth Patchen |
 1953 Elizabeth Bishop |
 1952 Richard Eberhardt |
 1951 Jeremy Ingalls |
 1950 Louis Kent |
 1949 John Berryman |
 1948 Janet Lewis |
 1947 Rolfe Humphries |
 1946 Karl Shapiro |
 1945 E. E. Cummings |
 1944 Edgar Lee Masters |
 1943 Robert Penn Warren |
 1942 Ridgely Torrence |
 1941 Marianne Moore |
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  1940 Herbert Bruncken / Winfield T. Scott |
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  1939 Robert Francis / Harry Brown |
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 1938 Lincoln Fitzell |
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  1937 Charolotte Wilder / Ben Belitt |
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 1936 Josephine Miles |
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  1935 Lola Ridge / Marya Zaturenska |
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  1934 Lola Ridge / Frances Frost |
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 1932 Archibald MacLeish |
 1931 Lizette Woodworth Reese |
  1930 Conrad Aiken / Conrad Aiken |
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