Frost Medal
The Frost Medal is a literary award from the Poetry Society of America for the life's work of a poet and his contributions to American poetry.
The medal was first awarded in 1930 and only at irregular intervals for the following 53 years. The Frost Medal has been awarded annually since 1984. It is endowed with $ 2500.
Award winners
- 1930: Jessie Rittenhouse , Bliss Carmen (posthumous), George Edward Woodberry (posthumous)
- 1941: Robert Frost
- 1942: Edgar Lee Masters
- 1943: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 1947: Gustav Davidson
- 1951: Wallace Stevens
- 1952: Carl Sandburg
- 1955: Leona Speyer
- 1967: Marianne Moore
- 1971: Melville Cane
- 1974: John Hall Wheelock
- 1976: Aloysius Michael Sullivan
- 1984: Jack Stadler
- 1985: Robert Penn Warren
- 1986: Allen Ginsberg , Richard Eberhart
- 1987: Robert Creeley , Sterling Allen Brown
- 1988: Carolyn Kizer
- 1989: Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1990: Denise Levertov , James Laughlin
- 1991: Donald Hall
- 1992: Adrienne Rich , David Ignatow
- 1993: William Stafford
- 1994: AR Ammons
- 1995: John Ashbery
- 1996: Richard Wilbur
- 1997: Josephine Jacobsen
- 1998: Stanley Kunitz
- 1999: Barbara Guest
- 2000: Anthony Hecht
- 2001: Sonia Sanchez
- 2002: Galway Kinnell
- 2003: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- 2004: Richard Howard
- 2005: Marie Ponsot
- 2006: Maxine Kumin
- 2007: John Hollander
- 2008: Michael S. Harper
- 2009: XJ Kennedy
- 2010: Lucille Clifton
- 2011: Charles Simic
- 2012: Marilyn Nelson
- 2013: Robert Bly
- 2014: Gerald Stern
- 2015: Kamau Brathwaite
- 2016: Grace Schulman
- 2017: Susan Howe
- 2018: Ron Padgett
- 2019: Eleanor Wilner
Web links
- Poetry Society of America : The Frost Medalists