Awards

Award Winners

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Shelley Award
Individual Awards
Anna Rabinowitz Prize
Student Poetry Award
Book Awards for Publishers
Frost Award
Shelley Award
Chapbook Fellowships
Four Quartets Prize

2026

Joan Naviyuk Kane

2025

John Levy

2024

Shin Yu Pai

2023

Evie Shockley

2022

Joyelle McSweeney

2021

Arthur Sze

2020

Rick Barot

2019

Carl R. Martin

2018

Ntozake Shange

2017

Gillian Conoley

2016

Sonia Sanchez

2015

D. A. Powell

2014

Bernadette Mayer

2013

Lucia Perillo
Martín Espada

2012

Wanda Coleman

2011

Rigoberto González
Joan Larkin

2010

Kenneth Irby
Eileen Myles

2009

Ron Padgett
Gary Young

2008

Ed Roberson

2007

Kimiko Hahn

2006

George Stanley

2005

Lyn Hejinian

2004

Yusef Komunyakaa

2003

James McMichael

2002

Angela Jackson
Marie Ponsot

2001

Alice Notley
Michael Palmer

2000

Jean Valentine

1999

Tom Sleigh

1998

Eleanor Ross Taylor

1997

Frank Bidart

1996

Robert Pinsky
Anne Waldman

1995

Stanley Kunitz

1994

Kenneth Koch
Cathy Song

1993

Josephine Jacobsen

1992

Lucille Clifton

1991

Shirley Kaufman

1990

Thom Gunn

1989

Thomas McGrath
Theodore Weiss

1988

Dennis Schmitz

1987

Mona Van Duyn

1986

Gary Snyder

1985

Etheridge Knight

1984

Robert Duncan
Denise Levertov

1983

Jon Anderson
Leo Connellan

1982

Alan Dugan

1981

Robert Creeley

1980

Julia Randall

1979

Robert Hayden