List of winners of the Wallace Stevens Award

List of winners of the Wallace Stevens Award. Originally named for its donor Dorothea Tanning, the Wallace Stevens Award was established in 1994 and is being administered by the Academy of American Poets, to "recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry"; it carries a prize of $100,000.^[1]^[2]^[3] Receipt of the prize has been among the distinctions noted by the Library of Congress when the Poet Laureate of the United States is named.^[4]^[5]

"It's a very sweet award, there's no doubt about that," 2004 winner Mark Strand said. "It's so meaningful to know that you're thought well enough of by your peers that they think you deserve something like this."^[6] "

Year	Poet	Judges	Ref
2022	Marilyn Nelson
2021	Toi Derricotte		^[7]
2020	Nikky Finney		^[8]
2019	Rita Dove		^[9]
2018	Sonia Sanchez		^[10]
2017^[11]	Jorie Graham	Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Ellen Bass, Forrest Gander, Linda Gregerson, Terrance Hayes, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Nelson, Alicia Ostriker, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, David St. John, Arthur Sze
2016^[12]	Sharon Olds	Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Linda Gregerson, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Juan Felipe Herrera, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Nelson, Alicia Ostriker, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, Arthur Sze, Anne Waldman
2015	Joy Harjo	Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Linda Gregerson, Jane Hirshfield, Juan Felipe Herrera, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Khaled Mattawa, Alicia Ostriker, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, Arthur Sze, C. D. Wright, Anne Waldman	^[13]
2014	Robert Hass	Victor Hernández Cruz, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ron Padgett, Marie Ponsot, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, Arthur Sze, Anne Waldman, C. D. Wright
2013	Philip Levine	Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marie Ponsot, Claudia Rankine, Arthur Sze, Anne Waldman, C. D. Wright
2012	Gary Snyder	Victor Hernández Cruz, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Marie Ponsot, Arthur Sze, and Anne Waldman
2011	Yusef Komunyakaa	Victor Hernández Cruz, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Marie Ponsot, Kay Ryan, Gerald Stern, and Anne Waldman
2010	Galway Kinnell^[14]	Victor Hernández Cruz, Rita Dove, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Kay Ryan, Susan Stewart, Gerald Stern, and C. K. Williams
2009	Jean Valentine^[15]	Frank Bidart, Victor Hernández Cruz, Rita Dove, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Edward Hirsch, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Susan Stewart, Gerald Stern, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams
2008	Louise Glück^[16]	Frank Bidart, Victor Hernández Cruz, Rita Dove, Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Susan Stewart, Gerald Stern, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams
2007	Charles Simic^[17]	Frank Bidart, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Galway Kinnell, Nathaniel Mackey, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, Gerald Stern, Susan Stewart, James Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and C. K. Williams
2006	Michael Palmer^[18]	Robert Hass, Fanny Howe, Susan Stewart, Arthur Sze, and Dean Young
2005	Gerald Stern	Frank Bidart, Lucille Clifton, Toi Derricotte, Sharon Olds, and Kevin Young
2004	Mark Strand^[19]	Rosanna Warren, Jonathan Aaron, W. S. DiPiero, Jane Hirshfield, Lynne McMahon
2003	Richard Wilbur	Alice Fulton, Glyn Maxwell, Heather McHugh, C. K. Williams, and Al Young
2002	Ruth Stone	Marie Howe, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine
2001	John Ashbery	Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Harryette Mullen, Geoffrey O'Brien, Cole Swensen
2000	Frank Bidart	Eavan Boland, Louise Glück, Wendy Lesser, James Longenbach, Carl Phillips
1999	Jackson Mac Low	Frank Bidart, Robert Creeley, Sharon Olds, Marjorie Perloff, John Yau
1998	A. R. Ammons	Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard, Stephen Sandy, Susan Stewart, Helen Vendler
1997	Anthony Hecht	Harold Bloom, Debora Greger, John Hollander, Heather McHugh, Mark Strand
1996	Adrienne Rich	Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, Daniel Hoffman, David Wagoner, Rosanna Warren
1995	James Tate	John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Charles Simic
1994	W. S. Merwin	James Merrill, Carolyn Kizer, J. D. McClatchy

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