Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry

The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.

Winners
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * 2009 &mdash; Donald Hall
 * 2008 &mdash; John Haines
 * 2007 &mdash; Anne Stevenson
 * 2006 &mdash; Brendan Galvin
 * 2005 &mdash; B.H. Fairchild
 * 2004 &mdash; Henry Taylor
 * 2003 &mdash; Daniel Hoffman
 * 2002 &mdash; Grace Schulman
 * 2001 &mdash; Frederick Morgan
 * 2000 &mdash; Eleanor Ross Taylor
 * 1999 &mdash; George Garrett
 * 1998 &mdash; X. J. Kennedy
 * 1997 &mdash; Fred Chappell
 * 1995 &mdash; Maxine Kumin
 * 1994 &mdash; Wendell Berry
 * 1993 &mdash; George Starbuck
 * 1992 &mdash; Gwendolyn Brooks
 * 1991 &mdash; John Frederick Nims
 * 1990 &mdash; W. S. Merwin
 * 1989 &mdash; Anthony Hecht
 * 1988 &mdash; Richard Wilbur
 * 1987 &mdash; Howard Nemerov