Awards
Each year links to its corresponding " in poetry" or " in literature" article:
- 1952: Yale Younger Poets Prize for A Mask for Janus
- 1954: Kenyon Review Fellowship in Poetry
- 1956: Rockefeller Fellowship
- 1957: National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
- 1957: Playwrighting Bursary, Arts Council of Great Britain
- 1961: Rabinowitz Foundation Grant
- 1962: Bess Hokin Prize, Poetry magazine
- 1964/1965: Ford Foundation Grant
- 1966: Chapelbrook Foundation Fellowship
- 1967: Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, Poetry magazine
- 1969: PEN Translation Prize for Selected Translations 1948-1968
- 1969: Rockefeller Foundation Grant
- 1971: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Carrier of Ladders (published in 1971)
- 1973: Academy of American Poets Fellowship
- 1974: Shelley Memorial Award
- 1979: Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Yale University Library
- 1987: Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii
- 1990: Maurice English Poetry Award
- 1993: The Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry
- 1993: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Travels
- 1994: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award
- 1998: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded by The Poetry Foundation
- 1999: Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, a jointly-held position with Rita Dove and Louise Glück
- 2005: National Book Award for Poetry for Migration: New and Selected Poems
- 2004: Golden Wreath Award of the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival in Macedonia
- 2004: Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2009: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Shadow of Sirius (published in 2008)
- 2010: Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
- 2010: United States Poet Laureate
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