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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]
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.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 1922–1979 [2] Year Poet Title Ref. 1922: Edwin Arlington Robinson: Collected Poems: 1923: Edna St. Vincent Millay " The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver," "A Few Figs from Thistles," and "Eight Sonnets" 1924: Robert Frost: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes [3] [4] 1925: Edwin Arlington Robinson: The ...
A $2.5 million renovation of the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken has lightened its interiors and its heartbreaking history.
As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood," although there was some struggle over whether the word wholesome should be used instead of whole, the word Pulitzer had written in his will. [3]
[14] She invented stories for her family and walked with an open book, turning the pages as if reading while improvising a story. [14] Wharton began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, and she attempted to write her first novel at the age of 11. [15] Her mother's criticism quashed her ambition, however, and she turned to poetry. [15]
Poetry: The Waking by Theodore Roethke . Music: Concerto For Two Pianos and Orchestra by Quincy Porter (American Composers Alliance). First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954.
Stag's Leap is a book of poetry written by Sharon Olds and published in 2012. [1] It follows the events leading up to and following the poet's divorce, after a thirty-year marriage. The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2013.