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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]
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.
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.
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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.
Conrad is known for using and inventing the poetic form of "[Soma]tics." [5] This form is a sort of writing prompt/personal exercise in being engaged in the present moment. Conrad was one of the two poets in the short film, I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead (2018) by filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, also featured was poet Eileen Myles. [6] [7] [8]
Carl Phillips (born 23 July 1959) [1] is an American writer and poet. He is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis . [ 2 ] In 2023, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 .