The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work. When poet

Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Life Amy Lowell was born on February 9, 1874, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughte ...

died in 1925, her will established the scholarship, which is administered by the trustees at the law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart in

Boston, Massachusetts Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

Winners

Source: * 1953–1954 E. L. Mayo * 1954–1955

Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 28, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Biography Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massac ...

* 1955–1956 Joseph Langland * 1956–1957

William Alfred William Alfred (August 16, 1922 – May 20, 1999) was an American playwright, poet, and professor of English literature at Harvard University. Biography Alfred was born into an Irish family in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a bricklayer and ...

* 1957–1958

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Awar ...

* 1958–1959

Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Althoug ...

* 1959–1960

May Swenson Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson (May 28, 1913 – December 4, 1989) was an American poet and playwright. Harold Bloom considered her one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century. Born to Margaret and Dan Arthur Swenson, she ...

* 1960–1961 Judson Jerome * 1961–1962 Adrienne Rich Conrad * 1962–1963

Byron Vazakas Byron Vazakas (September 24, 1905, in New York City – September 30, 1987, in Reading, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, whose career extended from the modernist era well into the postmodernist period; nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ...

* 1963–1964

Miller Williams Stanley Miller Williams (April 8, 1930January 1, 2015) was an American contemporary poet, as well as a university professor, translator and editor. He produced over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments were chronic ...

* 1964–1965

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

* 1965–1966 Thomas McGrath * 1966–1967 Robert Grenier * 1967–1968 Robert Francis * 1968–1969 Edwin Honig * 1969–1970

Galway Kinnell Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. His dark poetry emphasized scenes and experiences in threatening, ego-less natural environments. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Se ...

* 1970–1971

Keith Waldrop Bernard Keith Waldrop (December 11, 1932 – July 27, 2023) was an American poet, translator, publisher, and academic. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. Early life and educ ...

* 1971–1972 Michael Wolfe * 1972–1973 Robert Peterson * 1973–1974 Kenneth O. Hanson * 1974–1975

Rika Lesser Rika Lesser (born 1953 Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works. Life Lesser earned her bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1974. She studied at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden ...

* 1975–1976

Jonathan Aaron Jonathan Aaron is an American poet and author of four poetry collections: ''Second Sight Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City,'' and ''Just About Anything.'' Life and education Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has a B.A. fro ...

* 1976–1977

John Haines John Meade Haines (June 29, 1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska. Published in 2024, the book May the Owl Call Again, A Return to Poet John Meade Haines, 1924-2011 focuses on the ...

* 1977–1978 Lynn Sukenick * 1978–1979

Edward Hirsch Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including ''The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems'' (2010), which brings toget ...

* 1979–1980 Norman Williams * 1980–1981 William Logan * 1981–1982

Brad Leithauser Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & W ...

* 1982–1983 Debora Greger * 1983–1984 Nicholas Christopher (resigned) * 1984–1985

Gjertrud Schnackenberg Gjertrud Schnackenberg (; born August 27, 1953, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet. Life Schnackenberg graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1975. She lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University in St. ...

* 1985–1986 Nicholas Christopher * 1986–1987 Elizabeth Spires * 1987–1988 David Wojahn * 1988–1989 Jeffrey Harrison * 1989–1990 Henri Cole * 1990–1991 Richard Tillinghast * 1991–199
Sharon M. Van Sluys
* 1992–1993 Daniel J. Hall * 1993–1994 John Drexel * 1994–1995 Reginald Shepherd (resigned) * 1995–1996 Mary Jo Salter * 1996–1997 Craig Arnold * 1997–1998

Caroline Finkelstein Caroline Finkelstein (born New York City, April, 1940, died Atlanta, February, 2016) was an American poet. Life Finkelstein was the second child of Louis and Rasha (Rae) Shapiro, clothing merchants in Manhattan. Her brother, David I. Shapiro, b ...

* 1998–1999 Elizabeth Macklin * 1999–2000 Phillis Levin * 2000–2001 Richard Foerster * 2001–2002

Nick Flynn Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet. Life and career Nick Flynn was raised by his mother in Scituate, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Flynn had no contact with his father throughout most of his chil ...

* 2002–2003 Rick Hilles * 2003–2004 Mark Wunderlich * 2004–2005 Mary Jane Nealon * 2005–2006 Geri Doran * 2006–2007

James Arthur James Andrew Arthur (born 2 March 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the ninth series of ''The X Factor'' in 2012. His debut single, a cover of Shontelle's " Impossible", was released by Syco Music aft ...

* 2007–2008 David Roderick * 2008–2009 Kathleen Graber * 2009–2010 Brian Turner * 2010–2011 Paula Bohince, Elizabeth Arnold * 2011–2012 Paisley Rekdal, Spencer Reece * 2012–2013

Joshua Weiner Joshua Weiner (born 1963 Boston) is an American poet. Life He graduated from Northwestern University, and earned his PhD in English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as the writing coordinator at the F ...

, V. Penelope Pelizzon * 2013–2014 CJ Evans, Rebecca Lindenberg * 2014–2015 Sam Taylor * 2015–2016 Meg Day * 2018–2019 Molly McCully Brown * 2019–2020 Anne Pierson Wiese * 2020–2021 Austin Smith * 2021–2022 Tiana Clark, Ama Codjoe * 2022–2023 Derrick Austin, Devon Walker-Figueroa * 2023–2024 Christopher Nelson * 2024–2025 Kimberly Johnson

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* {{official, https://www.amylowell.org/ American poetry awards

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