American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals - Poetry

Poetry

  • 2009 — Mark Strand
  • 2003 — W. S. Merwin
  • 1997 — John Ashbery
  • 1991 — Richard Wilbur
  • 1985 — Robert Penn Warren
  • 1979 — Archibald MacLeish
  • 1973 — John Crowe Ransom
  • 1968 — W. H. Auden
  • 1963 — William Carlos Williams
  • 1958 — Conrad Aiken
  • 1953 — Marianne Moore
  • 1939 — Robert Frost
  • 1929 — Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • 1911 — James Whitcomb Riley

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