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Joy Harjo wins Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry
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2023 | Joy Harjo
2021 | Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
2019 | Charles Bernstein
2017 | Jean Valentine
2015 | Nathaniel Mackey
2013 | Charles Wright
2011 | Susan Howe
2009 | Allen Grossman
2007 | Frank Bidart
2005 | Jay Wright
2003 | Adrienne Rich
2001 | Louise Glück
1999 | Robert Creeley
1997 | Gary Snyder
1995 | Kenneth Koch
1993 | Mark Strand
1991 | Donald Justice
1991 | Laura Riding Jackson
1989 | Edgar Bowers
1987 | Stanley Kunitz
1985 | John Ashbery
1985 | Fred Chappell
1983 | John Hollander
1983 | Anthony Hecht
1981 | Howard Nemerov
1981 | May Swenson
1979 | W. S. Merwin
1977 | David Ignatow
1975 | A. R. Ammons
1973 | James Merrill
1971 | Richard Wilbur
1971 | Mona Van Duyn
1969 | Karl Shapiro
1969 | John Berryman
1967 | Robert Penn Warren
1965 | Horace Gregory
1962 | Robert Frost
1961 | Richard Eberhart
1961 | John Hall Wheelock
1960 | Yvor Winters
1959 | Delmore Schwartz
1958 | Theodore Roethke
1957 | E. E. Cummings
1956 | Allen Tate
1955 | Conrad Aiken
1954 | Louise Bogan
1954 | Léonie Adams
1953 | W. H. Auden
1952 | Archibald MacLeish
1951 | Marianne Moore
1950 | John Crowe Ransom
1949 | Wallace Stevens
1948 | Ezra Pound
2023
Joy Harjo
2021
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
2019
Charles Bernstein
2017
Jean Valentine
2015
Nathaniel Mackey
2013
Charles Wright
2011
Susan Howe
2009
Allen Grossman
2007
Frank Bidart
2005
Jay Wright
2003
Adrienne Rich
2001
Louise Glück
1999
Robert Creeley
1997
Gary Snyder
1995
Kenneth Koch
1993
Mark Strand
1991
Donald Justice
1991
Laura Riding Jackson
1989
Edgar Bowers
1987
Stanley Kunitz
1985
John Ashbery
1985
Fred Chappell
1983
John Hollander
1983
Anthony Hecht
1981
Howard Nemerov
1981
May Swenson
1979
W. S. Merwin
1977
David Ignatow
1975
A. R. Ammons
1973
James Merrill
1971
Richard Wilbur
1971
Mona Van Duyn
1969
Karl Shapiro
1969
John Berryman
1967
Robert Penn Warren
1965
Horace Gregory
1962
Robert Frost
1961
Richard Eberhart
1961
John Hall Wheelock
1960
Yvor Winters
1959
Delmore Schwartz
1958
Theodore Roethke
1957
E. E. Cummings
1956
Allen Tate
1955
Conrad Aiken
1954
Louise Bogan
1954
Léonie Adams
1953
W. H. Auden
1952
Archibald MacLeish
1951
Marianne Moore
1950
John Crowe Ransom
1949
Wallace Stevens
1948
Ezra Pound