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The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.
William Morris Meredith Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, [1] and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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.
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress; Poets' Prize – awarded annually for the best book of verse published by an American in the previous calendar year; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Rattle Poetry Prize – $5000 prize for one poem given every year by Rattle
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. ...
The poet laureate presents an annual lecture and reading of their poetry and usually introduces poets at the Library's poetry series, the oldest in the Washington area and among the oldest in the United States. This annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, and occasional dramatic performances began in the 1940s.
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
The $10,000 prize winner is chosen by a three-member jury appointed by a selection committee composed of the Librarian of Congress, the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a publisher named by the Academy of American Poets and a literary critic nominated by the Bobbitt family. Awarded for "the Most Distinguished Book of Poetry Published in 2006 ...