Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry

The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.

Winners

1987 — Howard Nemerov 1988 — Richard Wilbur 1989 — Anthony Hecht 1990 — W. S. Merwin 1991 — John Frederick Nims 1992 — Gwendolyn Brooks 1993 — George Starbuck 1994 — Wendell Berry 1995 — Maxine Kumin 1997 — Fred Chappell 1998 — X. J. Kennedy 1999 — George Garrett 2000 — Eleanor Ross Taylor 2001 — Frederick Morgan 2002 — Grace Schulman 2003 — Daniel Hoffman 2004 — Henry Taylor 2005 — B.H. Fairchild 2006 — Brendan Galvin 2007 — Anne Stevenson 2008 — John Haines 2009 — Donald Hall 2010 — Louise Glück 2011 — Billy Collins 2012 — Debora Greger 2013 — William Logan 2014 — Dana Gioia 2015 — Marie Ponsot 2016 — Christian Wiman 2017 — Mary Ruefle 2018 — Heather McHugh 2019 — Carl Phillips 2020 — Nikky Finney 2021 — Vievee Francis

See also American poetry List of poetry awards List of literary awards List of years in poetry List of years in literature

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