Bollingen Prize for Poetry
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The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a writing award given to an American poet. The award is given to a poet for the best new book or for the work of a poet's whole life. From 1948 to 1962, the prize was given every year. Starting in 1965, it was given every two years.[1]
The prize was started in 1948 by Paul Mellon. It was named after psychiatrist Carl Jung’s home in Switzerland.[1]
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University is the home of the Bollingen Prize.[2]
Winners[1]
- 1948 – Ezra Pound
- 1949 – Wallace Stevens
- 1950 – John Crowe Ransom
- 1951 – Marianne Moore
- 1952 – Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams
- 1953 – W. H. Auden
- 1954 – Léonie Adams and Louise Bogan
- 1955 – Conrad Aiken
- 1956 – Allen Tate
- 1957 – E. E. Cummings
- 1958 – Theodore Roethke
- 1959 – Delmore Schwartz and David Jones
- 1960 – Yvor Winters
- 1961 – John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart
- 1962 – Robert Frost
- 1965 – Horace Gregory
- 1967 – Robert Penn Warren
- 1969 – John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
- 1971 – Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn
- 1973 – James Merrill
- 1975 – A. R. Ammons
- 1977 – David Ignatow
- 1979 – W. S. Merwin
- 1981 – Howard Nemerov and May Swenson
- 1983 – Anthony Hecht and John Hollander
- 1985 – John Ashbery and Fred Chappell
- 1987 – Stanley Kunitz
- 1989 – Edgar Bowers
- 1991 – Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice
- 1993 – Mark Strand
- 1995 – Kenneth Koch
- 1997 – Gary Snyder
- 1999 – Robert Creeley
- 2001 – Louise Glück
- 2003 – Adrienne Rich
- 2005 – Jay Wright
- 2007 – Frank Bidart
- 2009 – Allen Grossman
- 2011 – Susan Howe
- 2013 – Charles Wright
- 2015 – Nathaniel Mackey
- 2017 – Jean Valentine
- 2019 – Charles Bernstein
- 2021 – Mei-mei Berssenbrugge