Philip Levine (poet) - Awards

Awards

• 2011 Appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate).
• 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry – The Simple Truth (1994)
• 1991 National Book Award for Poetry and Los Angeles Times Book Prize – What Work Is
• 1987 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Modern Poetry Association and the American Council for the Arts
• 1981 Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine
• 1980 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
• 1980 National Book Award for Poetry – Ashes: Poems New and Old
• 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Ashes: Poems New and Old – 7 Years from Somewhere
• 1978 Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry
• 1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize – The Names of the Lost (1975)
• 1973 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Frank O'Hara Prize, Guggenheim Foundation fellowship