Mona Van Duyn: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Mona Jane Van Duyn
Born May 9, 1921 • Waterloo • Iowa
Died December 2, 2004 (aged 83) • Missouri
Founder ā€œPerspective: A Quarterly of Literature and the Artsā€
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1989) • Bollingen Prize (1971)
Notable Works ā€œA Time of Beesā€ • ā€œFirefallā€ • ā€œIf It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982ā€ • ā€œMerciful Disguisesā€ • ā€œNear Changesā€ • ā€œTo See, to Takeā€

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Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
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
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
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C.K. Williams
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
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James Merrill
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
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Lisel Mueller
German-American poet
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Theodore Roethke
American poet
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Richard Eberhart
American poet
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John Crowe Ransom
American poet and critic