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The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken.

Winners

• 2005 — B.H. Fairchild
• 2004 — Henry Taylor
• 2003 — Daniel Hoffman
• 2002 — Grace Schulman
• 2001 — Frederick Morgan
• 2000 — Eleanor Ross Taylor
• 1999 — George Garrett
• 1998 — X. J. Kennedy
• 1997 — Fred Chappell
• 1995 — Maxine Kumin
• 1994 — Wendell Berry
• 1993 — George Starbuck
• 1992 — Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1991 — John Frederick Nims
• 1990 — W. S. Merwin
• 1989 — Anthony Hecht
• 1988 — Richard Wilbur
• 1987 — Howard Nemerov

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literature awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

External links

• [1] Aiken Taylor Award home page
• [2] New York Times article, "Nemerov First Winner Of Taylor Poetry Prize" (January 18, 1987)

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