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The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the '' Sewanee Review'' and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of
Conrad Aiken Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short st ...
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Winners

* 1987 —
Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. He was twice ...
* 1988 — Richard Wilbur * 1989 —
Anthony Hecht Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, an ...
* 1990 — W. S. Merwin * 1991 — John Frederick Nims * 1992 —
Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poet ...
* 1993 — George Starbuck * 1994 —
Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays o ...
* 1995 —
Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982. Biography Early years Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June ...
* 1997 — Fred Chappell * 1998 — X. J. Kennedy * 1999 — George Garrett * 2000 — Eleanor Ross Taylor * 2001 — Frederick Morgan * 2002 — Grace Schulman * 2003 —
Daniel Hoffman Daniel Gerard Hoffman (April 3, 1923 – March 30, 2013) was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973. Early life and education Hoffman wa ...
* 2004 — Henry Taylor * 2005 — B.H. Fairchild * 2006 —
Brendan Galvin Brendan James Galvin (October 20, 1938 – August 17, 2023) was an American poet. His book, ''Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965–2005'', was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Life During forty years of college teaching, he served ...
* 2007 — Anne Stevenson * 2008 — John Haines * 2009 —
Donald Hall Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and inc ...
* 2010 —
Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existe ...
* 2011 — Billy Collins * 2012 — Debora Greger * 2013 — William Logan * 2014 —
Dana Gioia Michael Dana Gioia (; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist. Since the early 1980s, Gioia has been considered part of the highly controversial and countercultural literary movements w ...
* 2015 — Marie Ponsot * 2016 — Christian Wiman * 2017 — Mary Ruefle * 2018 — Heather McHugh * 2019 —
Carl Phillips Carl Phillips (born 23 July 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his '' Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.'' ...
* 2020 —
Nikky Finney Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957, in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at ...
* 2021 — Vievee Francis


See also

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American poetry American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the Constitution of the United States, constitutional unification ...
* List of poetry awards * List of literary awards *
List of years in poetry This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry. These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry. Before 1000 BC * – '' Kesh Temple Hymn'' * – Enheduanna, ''The Exalta ...
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List of years in literature This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern liter ...


External links

* *{{cite news , author=Staff writers , title=Nemerov First Winner Of Taylor Poetry Prize, work=New York Times, date=January 18, 1987 , url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/18/books/nemerov-first-winner-of-taylor-poetry-prize.html, accessdate=January 19, 2009 American poetry awards