page_title: List of honors received by John Ashbery
section_title: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards
hierarchical_section_title: List of honors received by John Ashbery / Accolades for individual works / "Best-of" anthologies / Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Best Poems of 1969: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1970, Volume 22 of the anthology series Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards series.
context_page_description: American poet John Ashbery received numerous awards, nominations, grants, fellowships, and other honors in his lifetime. He was generally regarded as the most-honored poet of his generation and one of the most-honored American writers of any era.
  He received his first award, the 92nd Street Y Discovery Prize for unpublished poets, in 1952. Four years later, W. H. Auden selected him as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, resulting in the publication of his debut poetry collection Some Trees. He rose to prominence when his 1975 collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror became the first book to win a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. To date, Ashbery remains the only writer to attain the achievement, which has been called the "Triple Crown" of American literature.
  Beyond prizes, he was a recipient of several monetary grants and fellowships that provided crucial support for his literary ambitions and travel. As a Fulbright scholar, Ashbery moved to France in 1955 to study French poetry and teach. He continued to live in the country for nearly a decade thereafter.
context_section_description: The Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards were a nonprofit literary foundation and annual poetry anthology series released between 1949 and 1977. The Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards anthologies collected the editors' selections of the best original English-language poems of no more than 100 lines published the preceding year in literary magazines. After making an initial selection, the editors read poems with the names of the author and original publication removed and assigned scores. The authors of the three highest-scoring poems received cash prizes and were designated as First, Second, and Third place in the anthology.
  Ashbery's poem "Soonest Mended", first published in The Paris Review and included in his collection The Double Day of Spring (1970), was chosen for Best Poems of 1969: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1970. It did not receive one of the top three placements.
caption: The 1970 Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards anthology included Ashbery's poem "Soonest Mended".
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