title: Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
text: # Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
  
  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
  
  * 1987 — Howard Nemerov
  * 1988 — Richard Wilbur
  * 1989 — Anthony Hecht
  * 1990 — W. S. Merwin
  * 1991 — John Frederick Nims
  * 1992 — Gwendolyn Brooks
  * 1993 — George Starbuck
  * 1994 — Wendell Berry
  * 1995 — Maxine Kumin
  * 1997 — Fred Chappell
  * 1998 — X. J. Kennedy
  * 1999 — George Garrett
  * 2000 — Eleanor Ross Taylor
  * 2001 — Frederick Morgan
  * 2002 — Grace Schulman
  * 2003 — Daniel Hoffman
  * 2004 — Henry Taylor
  * 2005 — B.H. Fairchild
  * 2006 — Brendan Galvin
  * 2007 — Anne Stevenson
  * 2008 — John Haines
  * 2009 — Donald Hall
  * 2010 — Louise Glück
  * 2011 — Billy Collins
  * 2012 — Debora Greger
  * 2013 — William Logan
  * 2014 — Dana Gioia
  * 2015 — Marie Ponsot
  * 2016 — Christian Wiman
  * 2017 — Mary Ruefle
  * 2018 — Heather McHugh
  * 2019 — Carl Phillips
  * 2020 — Nikky Finney
  * 2021 — Vievee Francis
  