The Bollingen Prize in Poetry is a $50,000 award, given biennially, from 1949 to present-day.
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This $50,000 award is given biennially. It is administered by Yale University and the Bollingen Foundation.
- 1949
- Ezra Pound
- 1950
- Wallace Stevens
- 1951
- John Crowe Ransom
- 1952
- Marianne Moore
- 1953
- Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams
- 1954
- W. H. Auden
- 1955
- Leonie Adams and Louise Bogan
- 1956
- Conrad Aiken
- 1957
- Allen Tate
- 1958
- e. e. cummings
- 1959
- Theodore Roethke
- 1960
- Delmore Schwartz
- 1961
- Yvor Winters
- 1962
- John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart
- 1963
- Robert Frost
- 1965
- Horace Gregory
- 1967
- Robert Penn Warren
- 1969
- John Berryman and Karl Shapiro
- 1971
- Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn
- 1973
- James Merrill
- 1975
- Archie Randolph Ammons
- 1977
- David Ignatow
- 1979
- W. S. Merwin
- 1981
- Howard Nemerov and May Swenson
- 1983
- Anthony Hecht and John Hollander
- 1985
- John Ashbery and Fred Chappell
- 1987
- Stanley Kunitz
- 1989
- Edgar Bowers
- 1991
- Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice
- 1993
- Mark Strand
- 1995
- Kenneth Koch
- 1997
- Gary Snyder
- 1999
- Robert White Creeley
- 2001
- Louise Gluck
- 2003
- Adrienne Rich
- 2005
- Jay Wright
- 2007
- Frank Bidart
- 2009
- Allen Grossman
- 2011
- Susan Howe
- 2013
- Charles Wright
- 2015
- Nathaniel Mackey
