Shelley Memorial Award
The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.[1] The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need, and is currently worth (2014) between $6,000 and $9,000.[2] The selection is made by a jury of three poets: one each appointed by the presidents of Radcliffe and Berkeley, and the third by the Board of Governors of the Society.
Winners
Winners of the Shelley Memorial Prize:[3]
- 2024 — Shin Yu Pai
- 2023 — Evie Shockley
- 2022 — Joyelle McSweeney
- 2021 — Arthur Sze
- 2020 — Rick Barot
- 2019 — Carl R. Martin
- 2018 — Ntozake Shange
- 2017 — Gillian Conoley
- 2016 — Sonia Sanchez
- 2015 — D. A. Powell
- 2014 — Bernadette Mayer
- 2013 — Martín Espada / Lucia Perillo
- 2012 — Wanda Coleman
- 2011 — Rigoberto González / Joan Larkin
- 2010 — Kenneth Irby / Eileen Myles
- 2009 — Ron Padgett / Gary Young
- 2008 — Ed Roberson
- 2007 — Kimiko Hahn
- 2006 — George Stanley
- 2005 — Lyn Hejinian
- 2004 — Yusef Komunyakaa
- 2003 — James McMichael
- 2002 — Angela Jackson / Marie Ponsot
- 2001 — Alice Notley / Michael Palmer
- 2000 — Jean Valentine
- 1999 — Tom Sleigh
- 1998 — Eleanor Ross Taylor
- 1997 — Frank Bidart
- 1996 — Robert Pinsky / Anne Waldman
- 1995 — Stanley Kunitz
- 1994 — Cathy Song / Kenneth Koch
- 1993 — Josephine Jacobsen
- 1992 — Lucille Clifton
- 1991 — Shirley Kaufman
- 1990 — Thom Gunn
- 1989 — Thomas McGrath / Theodore Weiss
- 1988 — Dennis Schmitz
- 1987 — Mona Van Duyn
- 1986 — Gary Snyder
- 1985 — Etheridge Knight
- 1984 — Robert Duncan / Denise Levertov
- 1983 — Jon Anderson / Leo Connellan
- 1982 — Alan Dugan
- 1981 — Robert Creeley
- 1980 — Julia Randall
- 1979 — Hayden Carruth
- 1978 — Jane Cooper / William Everson
- 1977 — Muriel Rukeyser
- 1976 — Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1975 — Edward Field
- 1974 — W. S. Merwin
- 1973 — John Ashbery / Richard Wilbur
- 1972 — Galway Kinnell
- 1971 — Louise Townsend Nicholl / Adrienne Rich
- 1970 — X. J. Kennedy / Mary Oliver
- 1969 — Ann Stanford
- 1968 — May Swenson
- 1967 — Anne Sexton
- 1966 — David Ignatow
- 1965 — Ruth Stone
- 1964 — William Stafford
- 1963 — Eric Barker
- 1962 — Theodore Roethke
- 1961 — Robinson Jeffers
- 1960 — Delmore Schwartz
- 1959 — Jose Garcia Villa
- 1958 — Kenneth Rexroth
- 1957 — George Abbe
- 1956 — Robert Fitzgerald
- 1955 — Léonie Adams
- 1954 — Kenneth Patchen
- 1953 — Elizabeth Bishop
- 1952 — Richard Eberhart
- 1951 — Jeremy Ingalls
- 1950 — Louis Kent
- 1949 — John Berryman
- 1948 — Janet Lewis
- 1947 — Rolfe Humphries
- 1946 — Karl Shapiro
- 1945 — E. E. Cummings
- 1944 — Edgar Lee Masters
- 1943 — Robert Penn Warren
- 1942 — Ridgely Torrence
- 1941 — Marianne Moore
- 1940 — Herbert Bruncken / Winfield T. Scott
- 1939 — Harry Brown / Robert Francis
- 1938 — Lincoln Fitzell
- 1937 — Ben Belitt / Charlotte Wilder
- 1936 — Josephine Miles
- 1935 — Lola Ridge / Marya Zaturenska
- 1934 — Frances Frost / Lola Ridge
- 1932 — Archibald MacLeish
- 1931 — Lizette Woodworth Reese
- 1930 — Conrad Aiken
See also
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literary awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
References
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- The Cenci (1819)
- Prometheus Unbound (1820)
- Hellas (1822)
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- Zastrozzi (1810)
- St. Irvyne (1811)
- "The Necessity of Atheism" (1811)
- "Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things" (1811)
- "A Letter to Lord Ellenborough" (1812)
- A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
- History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
- "On Frankenstein" (1817, published 1832)
- A Philosophical View of Reform (1819–20, published 1920)
- "A Defence of Poetry" (published posthumously, 1840)
- "The Devil's Walk" (1812)
- "Mutability" (1816)
- "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817)
- "Mont Blanc" (1817)
- "Ozymandias" (1818)
- "Love's Philosophy" (1819)
- "Ode to the West Wind" (1820)
- "To a Skylark" (1820)
- "The Cloud" (1820)
- "One Word is Too Often Profaned" (1822)
- "Music, When Soft Voices Die" (1824)
- "A Dirge" (1824)
- "England in 1819" (1834)
- Queen Mab (1813)
- Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816)
- The Revolt of Islam (1818)
- Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue (1819)
- Epipsychidion (1821)
- Adonaïs (1821)
- Julian and Maddalo (1824)
- The Witch of Atlas (1824)
- The Triumph of Life (1824)
- The Masque of Anarchy (1832)
Mary Shelley
- History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
- Proserpine (1820)
- Midas (1820)
- Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit (1822)
- Wolfstein, The Murderer; or, The Secrets of a Robber's Cave (1850)
- Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline (1977)
- Zastrozzi, A Romance (1986)
- Frankenstein authorship question
- The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein
- Mary Shelley (wife)
- Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (son)
- Timothy Shelley (father)
- Sir Bysshe Shelley (grandfather)
- Lord Byron
- Claire Clairmont
- William Godwin (father-in-law)
- Thomas Jefferson Hogg
- John Keats
- Thomas Medwin
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Edward John Trelawny
- The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Shelley's Vegetarianism
- Shelley: A Life Story
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935 film)
- Bloody Poetry (1984 play)
- Gothic (1986 film)
- Haunted Summer (1988 film)
- Rowing with the Wind (1988 film)
- Mary Shelley (2017 film)
- "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
- Shelley Memorial Award