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Encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book: Country: United States: Presented by: Academy of American Poets: First awarded: 1975: Website: poets.org /academy-american-poets /prizes /walt-whitman-award
The Academy of American Poets was created in 1934 in New York City by 23-year-old Marie Bullock [8] with a mission to "support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry." In 1936, the Academy of American Poets was officially incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Marie Bullock was the ...
The Academy Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement" at mid-career. Fellows are awarded a stipend which is $25,000. The fellowship program was created in 1946, since 1995 given in memory of James Ingram Merrill.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is administered by the Academy of American Poets selected by the New Hope Foundation in 1994. Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.
Wallace Stevens Award – $100,000 to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry; Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets – $25,000 for distinguished poetic achievement; Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize – $25,000 for the best book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year
A. List of winners of the Academy of American Poets fellowship; Academy of American Poets; Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
List of winners of the Wallace Stevens Award.Originally named for its donor Dorothea Tanning, the Wallace Stevens Award was established in 1994 and is being administered by the Academy of American Poets, to "recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry"; it carries a prize of $100,000.
The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book. The award is given by the Academy of American Poets , and is noted as one of the major prizes awarded to younger poets in the United States. [ 1 ]