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Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography. [1]
Poetry portal; These poets have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, awarded since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American writer, or one of the 1918 and 1919 special awards that the organization now considers the first Poetry Pulitzers.
Harriet Monroe, founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, wrote in an editorial (Apr.-Sept., 1922), "The award of a Pulitzer Prize of one thousand dollars to the Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson is a most agreeable surprise, as this is the first Pulitzer Prize ever granted to a poet.
James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk; W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate; Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer; Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
Many of the poems in Conrad Aiken's collection of sonnets, And In The Human Heart, were originally included in letters he wrote to Mary. Mary Aiken contributed illustrations to Conrad Aiken's book of children's verse, A Little Who's Zoo of Mild Animals. [7] Mary Hoover Aiken died on 22 October 1992 in Tybee Island, Georgia.
The collection won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1] The collection begins with new poems but includes portions of his lyric memoir, Among the Trees . [ 2 ] The book also contains selections from a several of Phillip's former poetry collections, specifically Speak Low , Double Shadow , Silverchest , Reconnaissance , Wild is the Wind ...
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), [1] adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, [2] and where he was an emeritus profes
Aiken was born in Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, on 4 September 1924. [1] Her father was the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken (1889–1973). Her older brother was the writer and research chemist [5] John Aiken (1913–1990), and her older sister was the writer Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009).