Bollingen Prize
The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American
Inception and controversy
The prize was established in 1948 by
The choice of a work by a man who had been a committed
Continuance through the Yale University Library
The Bollingen Foundation decided to continue the program with the administrative tasks being handled by the Yale University Library. The prize was awarded annually from 1948 to 1963. In 1963, the amount of the award was increased to $5,000. After 1963, it was given every other year. The Bollingen Foundation was dissolved in 1968, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation took over funding. In 1973, the Mellon Foundation established an endowment of $100,000 to enable the Yale Library to continue awarding the prize in perpetuity.[5]
In 1961, a similar prize was set up by the Bollingen Foundation for best translation. The prize for best translation was given out only from 1961-1968.[6] It was first won by Robert Fitzgerald for his translation of the Odyssey. It has also been won by Walter W. Arndt for his translation of Eugene Onegin, and in 1963 by Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn jointly.
Recipients
- 1965 – Horace Gregory
- 1967 – Robert Penn Warren
- 1969 – John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
- 1971 – Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn
- 1973 – James Merrill
- 1975 – A. R. Ammons
- 1977 – David Ignatow
- 1979 – W. S. Merwin
- 1981 – Howard Nemerov and May Swenson
- 1983 – Anthony Hecht and John Hollander
- 1985 – John Ashbery and Fred Chappell
- 1987 – Stanley Kunitz
- 1989 – Edgar Bowers
- 1991 – Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice
- 1993 – Mark Strand
- 1995 – Kenneth Koch
- 1997 – Gary Snyder
- 1999 – Robert Creeley
- 2001 – Louise Glück
- 2003 – Adrienne Rich
- 2005 – Jay Wright
- 2007 – Frank Bidart
- 2009 – Allen Grossman
- 2011 – Susan Howe
- 2013 – Charles Wright
- 2015 – Nathaniel Mackey
- 2017 – Jean Valentine[7]
- 2019 – Charles Bernstein
- 2021 – Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- 2023 – Joy Harjo
When awarded annually
- 1949 – Ezra Pound
- 1950 – Wallace Stevens
- 1951 – John Crowe Ransom
- 1952 – Marianne Moore
- 1953 – Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams
- 1954 – W. H. Auden
- 1955 – Léonie Adams and Louise Bogan
- 1956 – Conrad Aiken
- 1957 – Allen Tate
- 1958 – E. E. Cummings
- 1959 – Theodore Roethke
- 1960 – David Jones
- 1961 – Yvor Winters
- 1962 – John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart
- 1963 – Robert Frost
See also
Lists
- List of American literary awards
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in literature
- List of years in poetry
References
- ^ a b "About | The Bollingen Prize for Poetry". bollingen.yale.edu. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ^ "About | The Bollingen Prize for Poetry". bollingen.yale.edu. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
- ^ Britannica online.
- ^ McGuire, William (1982). Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past (Princeton University Press:Bollingen Series, New Jersey).
- ^ ISBN 0-8444-0586-8. Online version retrieved November 10, 2007.
- ^ "Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize - Oxford Reference". September 26, 2023. Archived from the original on September 26, 2023. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
- ^ "Mei-mei Berssenbrugge wins Yale's 2021 Bollingen Prize for Poetry | the Bollingen Prize for Poetry".
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