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Poetry

1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht 1981 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) 1974 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings 1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken 1955 D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry 1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his 1st U.S. poetry reading tour 1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1938 Johnny Tillotson, born in Jacksonville, Florida, singer, Gidget, Poetry in Motion 1933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic 1892 Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet and critic, Mirror of Dutch Poetry 1886 Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 1860 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I 1794 Leopold Zunz, German scientist, Synagogical Poetry 1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught" 1744 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28 1715 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet, Temple of Real Poetry 1711 Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry, Complete Works 1598 Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry", Hercules 1597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"

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