Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry

The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.

Winners

Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• 2016 — Christian Wiman
• 2015 — Marie Ponsot
• 2014 — Dana Gioia
• 2013 — William Logan
• 2012 — Debora Greger
• 2011 — Billy Collins
• 2010 — Louise Gluck
• 2009 — Donald Hall
• 2008 — John Haines
• 2007 — Anne Stevenson
• 2006 — Brendan Galvin
• 2005 — B.H. Fairchild
• 2004 — Henry Taylor
• 2003 — Daniel Hoffman
• 2002 — Grace Schulman
• 2001 — Frederick Morgan
• 2000 — Eleanor Ross Taylor
• 1999 — George Garrett
• 1998 — X. J. Kennedy
• 1997 — Fred Chappell
• 1995 — Maxine Kumin
• 1994 — Wendell Berry
• 1993 — George Starbuck
• 1992 — Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1991 — John Frederick Nims
• 1990 — W. S. Merwin
• 1989 — Anthony Hecht
• 1988 — Richard Wilbur
• 1987 — Howard Nemerov

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literature awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

External links

• "Aiken Taylor Award home page". The Sewanee Review. Sewanee: The University of the South. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
• Staff writers (January 18, 1987). "Nemerov First Winner Of Taylor Poetry Prize". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-19.