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Merwin Merwin in 2003 Born William Stanley Merwin (1927-09-30)September 30, 1927 New York City, New York, U.S. Died March 15, 2019(2019-03-15) (aged 91) Haiku, Hawaii, U.S. Occupation Poet Nationality American Education Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, PA 1944; Princeton University (attended) Period 1952–2019 Genre Poetry, prose, translation Notable awards PEN Translation Prize 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1971, 2009 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 1994 Tanning Prize 1994 National Book Award 2005 United States Poet Laureate 2010 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2013 Spouse Dorothy Jeanne Ferry Dido Milroy Paula Dunaway (1983–2017) Signature William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation.[1] During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests. Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009;[2] the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005,[3] and the Tanning Prize—one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets—as well as the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings. In 2010, the Library of Congress named him the 17th United States Poet Laureate.[4][5] Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early career: 1952–1976 2.2 Later career: 1977–2019 3 Death 4 Awards 4.1 Other accolades 5 Bibliography 5.1 Poetry 5.2 Prose 5.3 Plays 5.4 Translations 5.5 As editor 6 Other sources 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Early life[edit] Merwin grew up on this street in Union City, New Jersey, which was renamed for him in 2006. W. S. Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. He grew up on the corner of Fourth Street and New York Avenue in Union City, New Jersey, and lived there until 1936, when his family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania. As a child, Merwin was enamored of the natural world, sometimes finding himself talking to the large tree in his back yard. He was also fascinated with things that he saw as links to the past, such as the building behind his home that had once been a barn which housed a horse and carriage.[6] At the age of five he started writing hymns for his father,[7] a Presbyterian minister.[5] Career[edit] Early career: 1952–1976[edit] After attending Princeton University in 1952, Merwin married Dorothy Jeanne Ferry, and moved to Spain. During his stay there, while visiting the renowned poet Robert Graves at his homestead on the island of Majorca, he served as tutor to Graves's son. There, he met Dido Milroy, fifteen years his senior, with whom he collaborated on a play and whom he later married and lived with in London. In 1956, Merwin moved to Boston for a fellowship at the Poets' Theater. He returned to London, where he became friends with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1968, Merwin moved to New York City, separating from his wife Dido Milroy, who stayed at their home in France. In the late 1970s, Merwin moved to Hawaii and eventually was divorced from Dido Milroy. He married Paula Dunaway in 1983.[8] From 1956 to 1957, Merwin was also playwright-in-residence at the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts; he became poetry editor at The Nation in 1962. Besides being a prolific poet, he was a respected translator of Spanish, French, Latin and Italian literature and poetry (including Lazarillo de Tormes and Dante's Purgatorio)[9][10] as well as poetry from Sanskrit, Yiddish, Middle English, Japanese and Quechua. He served as selector of poems of the American poet Craig Arnold (1967–2009).[11] Merwin is known for his poetry about the Vietnam War, and can be included among the canon of Vietnam War-era poets which includes writers Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and Yusef Komunyakaa.[12] Merwin's early subjects were frequently tied to mythological or legendary themes, while many of his poems featured animals. A volume called The Drunk in the Furnace (1960) marked a change for Merwin, in that he began to write in a more autobiographical way.[13] In the 1960s, Merwin lived in a small apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village.[6] Later career: 1977–2019[edit] Merwin's volume Migration: New and Selected Poems won the 2005 National Book Award for poetry.[14] In 1998, Merwin wrote Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, an ambitious novel-in-verse about Hawaiʻi in history and legend.[15] The Shadow of Sirius,[16] published in 2008 by Copper Canyon Press, was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.[2] In June 2010, the Library of Congress named Merwin the seventeenth United States Poet Laureate to replace the outgoing Kay Ryan.[4][5] He is the subject of the 2014 documentary film Even Though the Whole World Is Burning. Merwin appeared in the PBS documentary The Buddha, released in 2010. He had moved to Hawaii to study with the Zen Buddhist master Robert Aitken in 1976.[17] In 2010, with his wife Paula, he co-founded The Merwin Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving his hand-built, off-the-grid poet's home and 18-acre restored property in Haiku, Maui, which has been transformed from an "agricultural wasteland" to a "Noah's Ark" for rare palm trees, one of the largest and most biodiverse collections of palms in the world.[18] Merwin's last book of poetry, Garden Time[19] (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), was composed during the difficult process of losing his eyesight. When he could no longer see well enough to write, he dictated poems to his wife, Paula. It is a book about aging and the practice of living one's life in the present. Writing about Garden Time in The New York Times, Jeff Gordinier suggests that "Merwin's work feels like part of some timeless continuum, a river that stretches all the way back to Han Shan and Li Po."[20] In 2017, Copper Canyon Press published The Essential W. S. Merwin, a book which traces the seven decade legacy of Merwin's poetry, with selections ranging from his 1952 debut, A Mask for Janus, to 2016's Garden Time, as well as a selection of translations and lesser known prose narratives.[21] Merwin's literary papers are held at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The collection consists of some 5,500 archival items, and 450 printed books.[22][23] Death[edit] Merwin lived on land that was part of a pineapple plantation, on the northeast coast of Maui, Hawaii.[4][5] W.S Merwin died on March 15, 2019, in his sleep at his home, as reported by his publisher Copper Canyon Press.[24] Awards[edit] 1952: Yale Younger Poets Prize for A Mask for Janus[25] 1954: Kenyon Review Fellowship in Poetry[26] 1956: Rockefeller Fellowship[26] 1957: National Institute of Arts and Letters grant[26] 1957: Playwrighting Bursary, Arts Council of Great Britain[26] 1961: Rabinowitz Foundation Grant[26] 1962: Bess Hokin Prize, Poetry magazine[26] 1964/1965: Ford Foundation Grant[26] 1966: Chapelbrook Foundation Fellowship[26] 1967: Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, Poetry magazine[26] 1969: PEN Translation Prize for Selected Translations 1948–1968[27] 1969: Rockefeller Foundation Grant[26] 1971: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Carrier of Ladders (published in 1971)[27] 1973: Academy of American Poets Fellowship[26] 1974: Shelley Memorial Award[26] 1979: Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Yale University Library[26] 1987: Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii[27] 1990: Maurice English Poetry Award[28] 1993: The Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry[27] 1993: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Travels[27] 1994: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award[27] 1999: Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, a jointly-held position with Rita Dove and Louise Glück[29] 2005: National Book Award for Poetry for Migration: New and Selected Poems[14][25] 2004: Golden Wreath Award of the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival in Macedonia[29] 2004: Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award[29] 2008: Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement [30] 2009: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Shadow of Sirius (published in 2008)[31] 2010: Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement[32] 2010: United States Poet Laureate[4] 2013: Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award[33] Other accolades[edit] Merwin's home town honored him in 2006 by renaming a local street near his childhood home W. S. Merwin Way.[6] Bibliography[edit] Main article: W. S. Merwin bibliography Poetry[edit] Collections 1952: A Mask for Janus, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press; awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize, 1952 (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[25] 1954: The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[25] 1956: Green with Beasts, New York: Knopf (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[25] 1960: The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Macmillan (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[25] 1963: The Moving Target, New York: Atheneum[25] 1966: Collected Poems, New York: Atheneum[25] 1967: The Lice, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2017, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[34] 1969: Animae, San Francisco: Kayak[25] 1970: The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum[25] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize[2] 1970: Signs, illustrated by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall Press[25] 1973: Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum[25] 1975: The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[25] 1977: The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum[25] 1978: Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[25] 1982: Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press[25] 1983: Opening the Hand, New York: Atheneum[25] 1988: The Rain in the Trees, New York: Knopf[25] 1988: Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum[25] 1993: Travels: Poems, New York: Knopf[25] – winner of the 1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize[27] 1996: The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf[25] 1997: Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977–1983 Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[25] 1998: The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf[35] 1999: The River Sound: Poems, New York: Knopf[25] 2001: The Pupil, New York: Knopf[25] 2005: Migration: New and Selected Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[25] – winner of the National Book Award for Poetry[14] 2005: Present Company, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[25] 2008: The Shadow of Sirius, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[36] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize;[2] 2009: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books 2014: The Moon Before Morning, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press; Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books[37] 2016: Garden Time, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press;[19] Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books 2017: The Essential W. S. Merwin, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[21] Prose[edit] 1970: The Miner's Pale Children, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[25] 1977: Houses and Travellers, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[25] 2002: The Mays of Ventadorn, National Geographic Directions Series; Washington: National Geographic[25] 2004: The Ends of the Earth, essays, Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard[25] Plays[edit] 1956: Darkling Child (with Dido Milroy), produced that year[25] 1957: Favor Island, produced this year at Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (broadcast in 1958 by Third Programme, British Broadcasting Corporation)[25] 1961: The Gilded West, produced this year at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, England[25] Translations[edit] 1959: The Poem of the Cid, London: Dent (American edition, 1962, New York: New American Library)[25] 1960: The Satires of Persius, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press[25] 1961: Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)[25] 1962: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities, a Spanish novella; New York: Doubleday Anchor[25] 1963: The Song of Roland[27] 1969: Selected Translations, 1948–1968, New York: Atheneum[25] – winner of the PEN Translation Prize[27] 1969: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, poems by Pablo Neruda; London: Jonathan Cape (reprinted in 2004 with an introduction by Christina Garcia, New York: Penguin Books)[25] 1969: Products of the Perfected Civilization, Selected Writings of Chamfort, also author of the introduction; New York: Macmillan [25] 1969: Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia, Chicago: Follett (reprinted in 1988 and 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[25] 1969: Transparence of the World, poems by Jean Follain, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[25] 1971: "Eight Quechua Poems", The Hudson Review[38] 1974: Osip Mandelstam: Selected Poems (with Clarence Brown), New York: Oxford University Press (reprinted in 2004 as The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, New York: The New York Review of Books)[25] 1977: Sanskrit Love Poetry (with J. Moussaieff Masson), New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press)[25] 1977: Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press)[25] 1978: Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis (with George E. Dimock Jr.), New York: Oxford University Press[25] 1979: Selected Translations, 1968–1978, New York: Atheneum[25] 1981: Robert the Devil, an anonymous French play; with an introduction by the translator; Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[25] 1989: Sun at Midnight, poems by Musō Soseki (with Soiku Shigematsu)[27] 2000: Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf[25] 2002: Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation, New York: Knopf; 2003: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books[25] 2013: Sun At Midnight, poems by Muso Soseki, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press (with Soiku Shigematsu) (updated and reissued)[37] As editor[edit] 1961: West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society[25] 1996: Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (compiler), Washington: Counterpoint[25] Other sources[edit] The Union City Reporter March 12, 2006. References[edit] ^ "Amazon.com Official Profile". Retrieved October 7, 2012. ^ a b c d "Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved April 8, 2012. ^ "2005 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists, The National Book Foundation". Nationalbook.org. Retrieved January 21, 2018. ^ a b c d Kennicott, Philip (July 1, 2010). "W. S. Merwin, Hawaii-based poet, will serve as 17th U.S. laureate". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 1, 2010. ^ a b c d Cohen, Patricia (June 30, 2010). "W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate". The New York Times. Retrieved July 9, 2010. ^ a b c Diaz, Lana Rose. "Merwin Speaks"; The Union City Reporter, July 11, 2010, pages 1 & 9. ^ "About W. S. Merwin". English.illinois.edu. Retrieved January 21, 2018. ^ Smith, Dinitia (February 19, 1995). "A Poet of Their Own". The New York Times. Retrieved March 30, 2010. ^ "An Online Interview with W. S. Merwin". English.illinois.edu. Retrieved January 21, 2018. ^ Wutz, Michael; Crimmel, Hal (May 21, 2015). Conversations with W. S. Merwin. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781626746190. Retrieved January 21, 2018 – via Google Books. ^ "Today's poem is "asunder"". Verse Daily. Retrieved February 17, 2017. ^ Mosson, Gregg. "American Poetry: Vietnam and Today". The Potomac. Retrieved February 17, 2017. ^ Michael Wutz, Hal Crimmel, Michael and Hal Crimmel (2015). Conversations with W. S. Merwin. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1628462227. Retrieved February 17, 2017. ^ a b c "National Book Awards – 2005". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08. (With acceptance speech by Merwin, essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material.) ^ Kramer, Michael (October 8, 1998). "Hawaii's History, By Chapter and Verse" (PDF). Newsday. Retrieved February 17, 2017. ^ "Copper Canyon Press: The Shadow of Sirius". coppercanyonpress.org. Retrieved September 26, 2018. ^ "Featured Scholars and Poets – The Buddha". Pbs.org. Retrieved January 21, 2018. ^ "The Merwin Conservancy". The Merwin Conservancy. Retrieved March 16, 2019. ^ a b "Copper Canyon Press: Garden Time, poetry by W. S. Merwin". January 21, 2018. ^ Gordinier, Jeff (September 19, 2016). "Memories Distilled by 2 Radically Different Poets". NYTimes.com. Retrieved January 21, 2018. ^ a b "Copper Canyon Press: The Essential W. S. Merwin, Poetry by W. S. Merwin". Coppercanyonpress.org. Retrieved January 21, 2018. ^ "Finding Aid for the W. S. Merwin Papers, Merwin 1". Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. hdl:10111/UIU00002. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) ^ "Finding Aid for the W. S. Merwin Book Collection (UIU00141)". Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. hdl:10111/UIU00141. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) ^ "Poet W. S. Merwin, Who Was Inspired By Conservation, Dies At 91". NPR.org. March 15, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az Merwin biography at Poetry Foundation, Accessed October 23, 2010 ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Elizabeth C. Clarage, "1971: W. S. Merwin" article, p. 534, Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners Phoenix, Arizona: The Oryx Press (1999), ISBN 1-57356-111-8, retrieved via Google Books on June 8, 2010 ^ a b c d e f g h i j News release, "Poet W. S. Merwin Reads at Library of Congress October 15, September 22, 1997, Library of Congress website, retrieved June 8, 2010 ^ Routledge Staff (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Routledge. p. 383. ISBN 1-85743-179-0. Retrieved July 20, 2008. ^ a b c W. S. Merwin Archived October 1, 2005, at the Wayback Machine at Barclay Agency, Accessed October 23, 2010 ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. ^ "The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners/Poetry", Pulitzer.org; Accessed October 23, 2010 ^ "Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement". KenyonReview.org. ^ "There's a flame in me that thinks…". Fundacja im. Zbigniewa Herberta. Retrieved January 25, 2014. ^ "LC Catalog". catalog.loc.gov. Retrieved April 24, 2019. ^ "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)"; Amazon.com; 2010 ^ Farr, Sheila, "Poet ponders life's contrasts in 'The Shadow of Sirius'", book review, October 30, 2010, The Seattle Times, retrieved June 8, 2010 ^ a b "W. S. Merwin". coppercanyonpress.org. ^ Archive at The Hudson Review Accessed October 23, 2010 Archived March 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Further reading[edit] Armenti, Peter. W. S. Merwin: Online Resources, Library of Congress, accessed November 25, 2010. W. S. Merwin at the Steven Barclay Agency, accessed November 25, 2010. Norton, Ingrid. "Second Glance: Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one" Open Letters Monthly, accessed November 25, 2010. Edward Hirsch (Spring 1987). "W. S. Merwin, The Art of Poetry No. 38". The Paris Review. Kubota, Gary T. "Catching Up With Maui's Most Famous Poet: At Home and at Peace In a Tropical Landscape, W. S. Merwin Enriches the Literature of Nature", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 21, 2001 W. S. Merwin – Online Poems, Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, accessed November 25, 2010. Lerner, Ben. "The Emptiness at the End" Jacket magazine, October 2005 External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to W. S. Merwin. The Merwin Conservancy W. S. Merwin at Poets.org Profile and poems of W. S. Merwin, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry". Academy of Achievement, July 3, 2008 W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree PBS Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Letters to W.S. (William Stanley) and Dido Merwin, 1958-1969 v t e Laureates of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Robert Rozhdestvensky (1966) Bulat Okudzhava (1967) László Nagy (1968) Mak Dizdar (1969) Miodrag Pavlović (1970) W. H. Auden (1971) Pablo Neruda (1972) Eugenio Montale (1973) Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1974) Léopold Sédar Senghor (1975) Eugène Guillevic (1976) Artur Lundkvist (1977) Rafael Alberti (1978) Miroslav Krleža (1979) Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1980) Blaže Koneski (1981) Nichita Stănescu (1982) Sachchidananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' (1983) Andrei Voznesensky (1984) Yiannis Ritsos (1985) Allen Ginsberg (1986) Tadeusz Różewicz (1987) Desanka Maksimović (1988) Thomas Shapcott (1989) Justo Jorge Padrón (1990) Joseph Brodsky (1991) Ferenc Juhász (1992) Gennadiy Aygi (1993) Ted Hughes (1994) Yehuda Amichai (1995) Makoto Ooka (1996) Adunis (1997) Liu Banjiu (1998) Yves Bonnefoy (1999) Edoardo Sanguineti (2000) Seamus Heaney (2001) Slavko Mihalić (2002) Tomas Tranströmer (2003) Vasco Graça Moura (2004) William S. Merwin (2005) Nancy Morejón (2006) Mahmoud Darwish (2007) Fatos Arapi (2008) Tomaž Šalamun (2009) Lyubomir Levchev (2010) Mateja Matevski (2011) Mongane Wally Serote (2012) José Emilio Pacheco (2013) Ko Un (2014) Bei Dao (2015) Margaret Atwood (2016) Charles Simic (2017) Adam Zagajewski (2018) Ana Blandiana (2019) v t e Poets Laureate / Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress Joseph Auslander (1937) Allen Tate (1943) Robert Penn Warren (1944) Louise Bogan (1945) Karl Shapiro (1946) Robert Lowell (1947) Léonie Adams (1948) Elizabeth Bishop (1949) Conrad Aiken (1950) William Carlos Williams (1952) Randall Jarrell (1956) Robert Frost (1958) Richard Eberhart (1959) Louis Untermeyer (1961) Howard Nemerov (1963) Reed Whittemore (1964) Stephen Spender (1965) James Dickey (1966) William Jay Smith (1968) William Stafford (1970) Josephine Jacobsen (1971) Daniel Hoffman (1973) Stanley Kunitz (1974) Robert Hayden (1976) William Meredith (1978) Maxine Kumin (1981) Anthony Hecht (1982) Reed Whittemore (1984) Robert Fitzgerald (1984) Gwendolyn Brooks (1985) Robert Penn Warren (1986) Richard Wilbur (1987) Howard Nemerov (1988) Mark Strand (1990) Joseph Brodsky (1991) Mona Van Duyn (1992) Rita Dove (1993) Robert Hass (1995) Robert Pinsky (1997) Rita Dove, Louise Glück & W. S. Merwin (1999) Stanley Kunitz (2000) Billy Collins (2001) Louise Glück (2003) Ted Kooser (2004) Donald Hall (2006) Charles Simic (2007) Kay Ryan (2008–2010) W. S. Merwin (2010–2011) Philip Levine (2011–2012) Natasha Trethewey (2012–2014) Charles Wright (2014–2015) Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–2017) Tracy K. Smith (2017–2019) Joy Harjo (2019–present) v t e Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1951–1975) Carl Sandburg (1951) Marianne Moore (1952) Archibald MacLeish (1953) Theodore Roethke (1954) Wallace Stevens (1955) Elizabeth Bishop (1956) Richard Wilbur (1957) Robert Penn Warren (1958) Stanley Kunitz (1959) W. D. Snodgrass (1960) Phyllis McGinley (1961) Alan Dugan (1962) William Carlos Williams (1963) Louis Simpson (1964) John Berryman (1965) Richard Eberhart (1966) Anne Sexton (1967) Anthony Hecht (1968) George Oppen (1969) Richard Howard (1970) William S. Merwin (1971) James Wright (1972) Maxine Kumin (1973) Robert Lowell (1974) Gary Snyder (1975) Complete list (1922–1950) (1951–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025) v t e Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2001–2025) Stephen Dunn (2001) Carl Dennis (2002) Paul Muldoon (2003) Franz Wright (2004) Ted Kooser (2005) Claudia Emerson (2006) Natasha Trethewey (2007) Robert Hass / Philip Schultz (2008) W. S. Merwin (2009) Rae Armantrout (2010) Kay Ryan (2011) Tracy K. 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