List of winners of the Academy of American Poets fellowship

The Academy Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement" at mid-career. Fellows are awarded a stipend which is $25,000. The fellowship program was created in 1946, since 1995 given in memory of James Ingram Merrill.

The fellowship was the first of the academy's portfolio of awards; the academy's website describes it as "the first of its kind in the United States."

Academy fellows:


 * 1937 	Edwin Markham
 * 1946 	Edgar Lee Masters
 * 1947 	Ridgely Torrence
 * 1948 	Percy MacKaye
 * 1950 	E. E. Cummings
 * 1952 	Padraic Colum
 * 1953 	Robert Frost
 * 1954 	Louise Townsend Nicholl; Oliver St. John Gogarty
 * 1955 	Rolfe Humphries
 * 1956 	William Carlos Williams
 * 1957 	Conrad Aiken
 * 1958 	Robinson Jeffers
 * 1959 	Louise Bogan
 * 1960 	Jesse Stuart
 * 1961 	Horace Gregory
 * 1962 	John Crowe Ransom
 * 1963 	Ezra Pound; Allen Tate
 * 1964 	Elizabeth Bishop
 * 1965 	Marianne Moore
 * 1966 	Archibald MacLeish; John Berryman
 * 1967 	Mark Van Doren
 * 1968 	Stanley Kunitz
 * 1969 	Richard Eberhart; Anthony Hecht
 * 1970 	Howard Nemerov
 * 1971 	James Wright
 * 1972 	W. D. Snodgrass
 * 1973 	W. S. Merwin
 * 1974 	Léonie Adams
 * 1975 	Robert Hayden
 * 1976 	J. V. Cunningham
 * 1977 	Louis Coxe
 * 1978 	Josephine Miles
 * 1979 	May Swenson; Mark Strand
 * 1980 	Mona Van Duyn
 * 1981 	Richard Hugo
 * 1982 	John Frederick Nims; John Ashbery
 * 1983 	James Schuyler; Philip Booth
 * 1984 	Richmond Lattimore; Robert Francis
 * 1985 	Amy Clampitt; Maxine Kumin
 * 1986 	Irving Feldman; Howard Moss
 * 1987 	Josephine Jacobsen; Alfred Corn
 * 1988 	Donald Justice
 * 1989 	Richard Howard
 * 1990 	William Meredith
 * 1991 	J. D. McClatchy
 * 1992 	Adrienne Rich
 * 1993 	Gerald Stern
 * 1994 	David Ferry
 * 1995 	Denise Levertov
 * 1996 	Jay Wright
 * 1997 	John Haines
 * 1998 	Charles Simic
 * 1999 	Gwendolyn Brooks
 * 2000 	Lyn Hejinian
 * 2001 	Ellen Bryant Voigt
 * 2002 	Sharon Olds
 * 2003 	Li-Young Lee
 * 2004 	Jane Hirshfield
 * 2005 	Claudia Rankine
 * 2006 	Carl Phillips
 * 2007 	James McMichael
 * 2008 	Brigit Pegeen Kelly
 * 2009	Harryette Mullen
 * 2010	Khaled Mattawa
 * 2011	Joan Larkin
 * 2012  Brenda Hillman
 * 2013  Carolyn Forché
 * 2014  Tracy K. Smith
 * 2015  Marie Howe
 * 2016  Natasha Trethewey
 * 2017  Ed Roberson
 * 2018  Martín Espada
 * 2019  Ilya Kaminsky
 * 2020   Carmen Giménez Smith