Awards & Winners

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years. The award is overseen by the Library of Congress Center for the Book.
Date Established : 1990

Check all the winners of Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry presented under Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry since 1990 .


Bob Hicok

Honored for : This Clumsy Living

Charles Wright

(Lifetime Achievement)

W. S. Merwin

Honored for : Present company

B. H. Fairchild

Honored for : Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems

Alice Fulton

Honored for : Felt

David Ferry

Honored for : Of no country I know

Frank Bidart

Honored for : Desire

Kenneth Koch

Honored for : One Train

A. R. Ammons

Honored for : Garbage

Louise Glück

Honored for : Ararat

Mark Strand

Honored for : The Continuous Life: Poems

James Merrill

Honored for : The Inner Room