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Also Known As Conrad Potter Aiken
Born August 5, 1889 • Savannah • Georgia
Died August 17, 1973 (aged 84) • Savannah • Georgia
Title / Office poet laureate (1950-1952)
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1955) • National Book Award (1954) • Pulitzer Prize (1953) • Pulitzer Prize (1930)
Notable Works “Preludes to Definition” • “Selected Poems” • “Ushant”
Notable Family Members daughter Joan Aiken

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William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
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James Agee
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
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Mark Strand
Canadian-American poet, writer, and translator
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
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James Tate
American poet
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
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James Merrill
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet

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