The Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, or "Academy Fellowship", was the first award of its kind in the United States. Given out since 1946, it is awarded for "distinguished poetic achievement."

Each summer the Academy's Board of Chancellors elects one fellow by majority vote. No applications are accepted. The Fellowship carries with it a stipend of $25,000. The Academy of American Poets is the largest organization in the United States dedicated to the art of poetry. ...

It is given in memory of James Ingram Merrill.

Academy Fellows

• 2006—Carl Phillips
• 2005—Claudia Rankine
• 2004—Jane Hirshfield
• 2003—Li-Young Lee
• 2002—Sharon Olds
• 2001—Ellen Bryant Voigt
• 2000— Lyn Hejinian
• 1999—Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1998—Charles Simic
• 1997—John Haines
• 1996—Jay Wright
• 1995—Denise Levertov
• 1994—David Ferry
• 1993—Gerald Stern
• 1992—Adrienne Rich
• 1991—J. D. McClatchy
• 1990—William Meredith
• 1989—Richard Howard
• 1988—Donald Justice
• 1987—Josephine Jacobsen and Alfred Corn
• 1986—Irving Feldman and Howard Moss
• 1985—Amy Clampitt and Maxine Kumin
• 1984—Richmond Lattimore and Robert Francis
• 1983—James Schuyler and Philip Booth
• 1982—John Frederick Nims and John Ashbery
• 1981—Richard Hugo
• 1980—Mona Van Duyn
• 1979—May Swenson and Mark Strand
• 1978—Josephine Miles
• 1977—Louis Coxe
• 1976—J. V. Cunningham
• 1975—Robert Hayden
• 1974—Léonie Adams
• 1973—W. S. Merwin
• 1972—W. D. Snodgrass
• 1971—James Wright
• 1970—Howard Nemerov
• 1969—Richard Eberhart and Anthony Hecht
• 1968—Stanley Kunitz
• 1967—Mark Van Doren
• 1966—Archibald MacLeish and John Berryman
• 1965—Marianne Moore
• 1964—Elizabeth Bishop
• 1963—Ezra Pound and Allen Tate
• 1962—John Crowe Ransom
• 1961—Horace Gregory
• 1960—Jesse Stuart
• 1959—Louise Bogan
• 1958—Robinson Jeffers
• 1957—Conrad Aiken
• 1956—William Carlos Williams
• 1955—Rolfe Humphries
• 1954—Louise Townsend Nicholl and Oliver St. John Gogarty
• 1953—Robert Frost
• 1952—Padraic Colum
• 1950—E. E. Cummings
• 1948—Percy MacKaye
• 1947—Ridgely Torrence
• 1946—Edgar Lee Masters
• 1937—Edwin Markham

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William Meredith may refer to more than one person: William Meredith (poet) William M. Meredith, a U.S. Treasury Secretary Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a minor British politician. ... Richard Howard is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. ... Donald Justice (born in Miami, Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. ... Howard Moss (January 22, 1922–September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist, and critic who was poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine from 1948 until his death. ... Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) was an American poet and author. ... Maxine Kumin (b. ... Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 - February 26, 1984) was an American poet and translator known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey. ... Robert Francis (1901-1987) was an American poet who lived much of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... James Schuyler(9 November 1923 – 12 April 1991) was a major American poet in the late 20th century. ... American poet born in 1913 in Muskegon, Michigan and died on in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois. ... John Ashbery John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 - December 2, 2004) was an American poet. ... May Swenson (May 28, 1913 - December 4, 1989) was a United States poet and playwright. ... Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934) is an American poet, born in Canada. ... Josephine Miles (June 11, 1911 - 1985) was the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - February 25, 1980), born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, was a United States African-American poet, essayist, and educator. ... Léonie Fuller Adams (9 December 1899 – 27 June 1988) was a United States poet. ... William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin was born on September 30, 1927 in New York City and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and Scranton, Pennsylvania. ... W. D. Snodgrass is an USA American poet and 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner. ... There have been several people named James Wright. ... Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990. ... Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was a prolific American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. ... Anthony Ivan Hecht, (January 16, 1923-October 20, 2004), was an American poet. ... Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born July 29, 1905) is a noted American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. ... Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic. ... Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. ... John Berryman (originally John Smith) (October 25, 1914 - January 7, 1972) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. ... Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ... Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest 20th century poets writing in English. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943 - 1944. ... John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 - July 3, 1974) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator. ... Horace Gregory(1898-1982) was a prize-winning American poet and literary critic. ... Jesse Hilton Stuart (August 8, 1906 - February 17, 1984) was an American writer who achieved prominence in the short story, poetry, and novels. ... Louise Bogan (August 11, 1879 - 1970) was an American poet. ... John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. ... Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories and novels. ... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with Modernism and Imagism. ... Oliver St John Gogarty (August 17, 1878-September 22, 1957) was an Irish physician and ear surgeon, who was also a poet and writer, one of the most prominent Dublin wits, and for some time a political figure of the Irish Free State. ... Robert Frost (1941) Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet, one of the foremost of the 20th century. ... Padraic Colum, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1959 Padraic Colum (December 8, 1881 - January 11, 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. ... E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. ... Percy MacKaye (1875 - 1956), was a U.S. dramatist and poet. ... Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 - March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer and dramatist. ... Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. ...

See also

• List of poetry awards
• List of American literature awards

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Poetry prizes. ... A list of famous prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc. ...

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