Fellows of the Academy of American Poets

List of winners of the Academy Fellowship is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement" at mid-career, by the Academy of American Poets.

Fellows are awarded a stipend which is presently $25,000. The Fellowship program was created in 1946, since 1995 given in Memory of James Ingram Merrill.

It was the first of the Academy's current portfolio of awards; the Academy's website describes it as "the first of its kind in the United States."

Academy Fellows: