David Wojahn - Awards

Awards

  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
  • writing residencies from the Yaddo, and McDowell colonies.
  • 1987-1988 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
  • Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Book Award.
  • Glassworks, awarded the Society of Midland Authors’ Award for best volume of poetry
  • Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, was one of three named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library
  • In April 2007, Wojahn was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Interrogation Palace.
  • 2003 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003
  • National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
  • Illinois Arts Council award
  • the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fellowship
  • William Carlos Williams Award
  • Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America
  • Vermont College’s Crowley/Weingarten Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • George Kent Prize from Poetry magazine
  • three Pushcart Prizes.
  • 2008 he was named VCU’s Outstanding Faculty Award Winner
  • 2008 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize.

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