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.

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

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

Winners

 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

Category:Literary awards