Bollingen Prize for Poetry

The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a writing award given to an American poet. The award is given to a poet for the best new book or for the work of a poet's whole life. From 1948 to 1962, the prize was given every year. Starting in 1965, it was given every two years.^[1]

The prize was started in 1948 by Paul Mellon. It was named after psychiatrist Carl Jung’s home in Switzerland.^[1]

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University is the home of the Bollingen Prize.^[2]

Winners^[1]

• 1948 – Ezra Pound
• 1949 – Wallace Stevens
• 1950 – John Crowe Ransom
• 1951 – Marianne Moore
• 1952 – Archibald MacLeish and William Carlos Williams
• 1953 – W. H. Auden
• 1954 – Léonie Adams and Louise Bogan
• 1955 – Conrad Aiken
• 1956 – Allen Tate
• 1957 – E. E. Cummings
• 1958 – Theodore Roethke
• 1959 – Delmore Schwartz and David Jones
• 1960 – Yvor Winters
• 1961 – John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart
• 1962 – 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 – A. R. 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 Creeley
• 2001 – Louise Glück
• 2003 – Adrienne Rich
• 2005 – Jay Wright
• 2007 – Frank Bidart
• 2009 – Allen Grossman
• 2011 – Susan Howe
• 2013 – Charles Wright
• 2015 – Nathaniel Mackey
• 2017 – Jean Valentine
• 2019 – Charles Bernstein
• 2021 – Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

References

1. "About | The Bollingen Prize for Poetry". bollingen.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
2. "Prizes". Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2023-02-10.