Awards and Honors
- Frost Medal: Gustav Davidson
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Lowell appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Ridgely Torrence
- Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Poems for People, Dorothy Livesay
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