Bollingen Prize: Quick Facts

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Notable Honorees

Ezra Pound • Robert Frost • W. H. Auden • W.S. Merwin • Adrienne Rich • Gary Snyder • Louise Bogan • Robert Penn Warren • Louise Glück • E.E. Cummings • John Berryman • Wallace Stevens • Conrad Aiken • Mona Van Duyn • James Merrill • Anthony Hecht • William Carlos Williams • Robert Creeley • Frank Bidart • Archibald MacLeish • Allen Tate • John Crowe Ransom • Howard Nemerov • Kenneth Koch • Stanley Kunitz • John Ashbery • Marianne Moore • Robert Fitzgerald • Richard Wilbur • Mark Strand • A.R. Ammons • Theodore Roethke • David Ignatow • May Swenson • Richard Eberhart • Horace Gregory • Laura Riding • Delmore Schwartz • Karl Shapiro • Léonie Adams • Yvor Winters

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Poetry American literature Pulitzer Prize Booker Prize Governor General’s Literary Awards National Book Awards Crossword Book Awards Frost Medal Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Costa Book Awards Prix Goncourt Büchner Prize