The Wallace Stevens Award, named for famous modernist American poet Wallace Stevens, was established in 1994 by the Academy of American Poets to "recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry", and grant $100,000.[1][2][3] Receipt of the prize has been among the distinctions noted by the Library of Congress when the Poet Laureate of the United States is named.[4][5]
"It's a very sweet award, there's no doubt about that," 2004 winner Mark Strand said. "It's so meaningful to know that you're thought well enough of by your peers that they think you deserve something like this."[6]
| Year | Poet | Judges |
| 2010 | Galway Kinnell [7] | Victor Hernández Cruz, Rita Dove, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Kay Ryan, Susan Stewart, Gerald Stern, and C. K. Williams |
| 2009 | Jean Valentine [8] | Frank Bidart, Victor Hernández Cruz, Rita Dove, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Susan Stewart, Gerald Stern, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams |
| 2008 | Louise Glück [9] | Frank Bidart, Victor Hernández Cruz, Rita Dove, Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Susan Stewart, Gerald Stern, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams |
| 2007 | Charles Simic[10] | Frank Bidart, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Galway Kinnell, Nathaniel Mackey, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Gerald Stern, Susan Stewart, James Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams |
| 2006 | Michael Palmer[11] | Robert Hass, Fanny Howe, Susan Stewart, Arthur Sze, and Dean Young |
| 2005 | Gerald Stern | Frank Bidart, Lucille Clifton, Toi Derricotte, Sharon Olds, and Kevin Young |
| 2004 | Mark Strand [12] | Rosanna Warren, Jonathan Aaron, W. S. DiPiero, Jane Hirshfield, Lynne McMahon |
| 2003 | Richard Wilbur | Alice Fulton, Glyn Maxwell, Heather McHugh, C. K. Williams, and Al Young |
| 2002 | Ruth Stone | Marie Howe, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine |
| 2001 | John Ashbery | Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Harryette Mullen, Geoffrey O'Brien, Cole Swensen |
| 2000 | Frank Bidart | Eavan Boland, Louise Glück, Wendy Lesser, James Longenbach, Carl Phillips |
| 1999 | Jackson Mac Low | Frank Bidart, Robert Creeley, Sharon Olds, Marjorie Perloff, John Yau |
| 1998 | A. R. Ammons | Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard, Stephen Sandy, Susan Stewart, Helen Vendler |
| 1997 | Anthony Hecht | Harold Bloom, Debora Greger, John Hollander, Heather McHugh, Mark Strand |
| 1996 | Adrienne Rich | Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, Daniel Hoffman, David Wagoner, Rosanna Warren |
| 1995 | James Tate | John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Charles Simic |
| 1994 | W. S. Merwin | James Merrill, Carolyn Kizer, J. D. McClatchy |
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References[]
- ↑ Nancy Breen, ed. 2008 Poet's Market. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books. p. 407. ISBN 9781582974996.
- ↑ "Poetry Awards". Poetry Newsletter. Tattered Cover Book Store. http://booksense-stores.booksense.com/images/stores/6801/newsletter/poetry.pdf.
- ↑ "Wallace Stevens Award". Academy of American Poets. http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/107. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/poetry/more_simic.html
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0711/merwin.html
- ↑ Poet Mark Strand receives 2004 Wallace Stevens Award
- ↑ http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/107
- ↑ http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/107
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/louise_gl%C3%BCck_wins_100000_wallace_stevens_award
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/poetry/more_simic.html
- ↑ http://www.cca.edu/about/press/2006/mpalmer
- ↑ http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/041011.strand.shtml
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