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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

American award for distinguished poetry

Memorial Pages

33 memorial pages

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Louise Glück

04/22/1943 – 10/13/2023

80 years

U.S. poet and Nobel laureate

Cambridge

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Charles Simic

05/09/1938 – 01/09/2023

84 years

Serbian born American poet

Dover

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Lisel Mueller

02/08/1924 – 02/21/2020

96 years

Chicago

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W. S. Merwin

09/30/1927 – 03/15/2019

91 years

American poet

Haiku

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Mary Oliver

09/10/1935 – 01/17/2019

83 years

American poet

Hobe Sound

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Richard Wilbur

03/01/1921 – 10/14/2017

96 years

American poet

Belmont

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Philip Levine

01/10/1928 – 02/14/2015

87 years

Jewish-American poet

Fresno

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Claudia Emerson

01/13/1957 – 12/04/2014

57 years

Richmond

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Mark Strand

04/11/1934 – 11/29/2014

80 years

Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Brooklyn

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Maxine Kumin

06/06/1925 – 02/06/2014

88 years

American poet and author

Warner

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W. D. Snodgrass

01/05/1926 – 01/13/2009

83 years

Madison County

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Stanley Kunitz

07/29/1905 – 05/14/2006

100 years

American poet

New York City

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Peter Viereck

08/05/1916 – 05/13/2006

89 years

South Hadley

1934

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Richard Eberhart

04/05/1904 – 06/09/2005

101 years

Hanover

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Mona Van Duyn

05/09/1921 – 12/02/2004

83 years

University City

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Anthony Hecht

01/16/1923 – 10/20/2004

81 years

Washington, D.C.

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Alan Dugan

02/12/1923 – 09/03/2003

80 years

Hyannis

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Gwendolyn Brooks

06/07/1917 – 12/03/2000

83 years

American writer

Chicago

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Karl Shapiro

11/10/1913 – 05/14/2000

86 years

New York City

Family Tree

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James Merrill

03/03/1926 – 02/06/1995

68 years

Tucson

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James Schuyler

11/09/1923 – 04/12/1991

67 years

New York City

Family Tree

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George Oppen

04/24/1908 – 07/07/1984

76 years

Santa Clara County

Family Tree

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Archibald MacLeish

05/07/1892 – 04/20/1982

89 years

Boston

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Marya Zaturenska

09/12/1902 – 01/19/1982

79 years

Shelburne Falls

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