Award Winners

2021 Frost Medalist

N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday author photo

All Winners

2024

Joy Harjo

2023

Juan Felipe Herrera

2022

Sharon Olds

2020

Toi Derricotte

2019

Eleanor Wilner

2018

Ron Padgett

2017

Susan Howe

2016

Grace Schulman

2015

Kamau Brathwaite

2014

Gerald Stern

2013

Robert Bly

2011

Charles Simic

2001

Sonia Sanchez

2000

Anthony Hecht

1999

Barbara Guest

1998

Stanley Kunitz

1997

Josephine Jacobsen

1996

Richard Wilbur

1995

John Ashbery

1994

A. R. Ammons

1993

William Stafford

1992

Adrienne Rich
David Ignatow

1991

Donald Hall

1990

James Laughlin
Denise Levertov

1989

Gwendolyn Brooks

1988

Carolyn Kizer

1987

Sterling Brown
Robert Creeley

1986

Richard Eberhart
Allen Ginsberg

1985

Robert Penn Warren

1984

Jack Stadler

1976

A. M. Sullivan

1974

John Hall Wheelock

1971

Melville Cane

1967

Marianne Moore

1955

Leona Speyer

1952

Carl Sandburg

1951

Wallace Stevens

1947

Gustav Davidson

1943

Edna St. Vincent Millay

1942

Edgar Lee Masters

1941

Robert Frost