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The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award came five years after the first Pulitzers were awarded in other categories; [note 1] Joseph Pulitzer's will had not mentioned poetry. [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.
The name was changed to the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948, and eligibility was expanded to also include short stories, novellas, novelettes, and poetry, as well as novels. Finalists have been announced since 1980, usually a total of three.
An example of a writing field that has been expanded was the former Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), which has been changed to the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which also includes short stories, novellas, novelettes, and poetry, as well as novels. Chronology of Pulitzer Prize categories
American poet Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize four times from 1924 to 1943. William Allen White received the Pulitzer Prize twice but in two different categories: Journalism in 1923 for an editorial writing and posthumously in 1947 in the category Books, Drama, and Music for his autobiography.
For biographies of the prize-winning poets, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners. Pages in category "Pulitzer Prize for Poetry–winning works" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (March 27, 1923 – September 14, 2012) [ 1 ] was an American poet born in Jamaica. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road .
George Hill Dillon (November 12, 1906 – May 9, 1968) was an American editor and poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1932 for The Flowering Stone.. Dillon was born in Jacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West.