Bollingen Prize

The Bollingen Prize, awarded every two years by the Bollingen Foundation, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on a poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement. It rewards a cash prize, currently $25,000.

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1949Ezra Pound

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1950Wallace Stevens

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1950 - Wallace Stevens

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1951John Crowe Ransom

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1952Marianne Moore

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1953Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams

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1954W. H. Auden

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1955Léonie Adams and Louise Bogan

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1955 - Léonie Adams - Louise Bogan

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1956Conrad Aiken

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1957Allen Tate

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1958E. E. Cummings

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1959Theodore Roethke

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1960Delmore Schwartz

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1961Yvor Winters

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1962John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart

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1963Robert Frost

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1965Horace Gregory

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1967Robert Penn Warren

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1969John Berryman and Karl Shapiro

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1971Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn

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1973James Merrill

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1975Archie Randolph Ammons

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1977David Ignatow

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1979W. S. Merwin

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1981Howard Nemerov and May Swenson

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1983Anthony Hecht and John Hollander

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1985John Ashbery and Fred Chappell

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1987Stanley Kunitz

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1989Edgar Bowers

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1991Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice

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1993Mark Strand

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1995Kenneth Koch

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1997Gary Snyder

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1999Robert Creeley

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2001Louise Gluck

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2003Adrienne Rich

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2005Jay Wright

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2005 - Jay Wright

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