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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.
These books have been recognized by the American Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. For biographies of the prize-winning poets, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners . Pages in category "Pulitzer Prize for Poetry–winning works"
Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
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).
In 1919, Hillyer described himself as “a conservative and religious poet in a radical and blasphemous age." [3] In 1934, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer. [1] [2] His work is in meter and often rhyme and he tended to write about death, love and nature. [1]
Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia [2] from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds ...