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Laureates From: 1991-2000
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1990-1991
Mark Strand
(1934- ) Strand, born on Prince Edward Island, Canada,
received a BA from Antioch College, a BFA from Yale and an
MA from the University of Iowa. He is the author of 10 books
of poems, including “Blizzard of One,” which won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1999. He has received many honors, including a
MacArthur fellowship and three grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts. Strand also has published a
collection of stories, “Mr. and Mrs. Baby,” many translations
and several anthologies.
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1991-1992
Joseph Brodsky
(1940-1996) Brodsky, born in Leningrad, left school at age
15 and worked at many occupations, including a milling
machine operator and a geologist-prospector. He began
writing poetry at age 18 and studied with Russian poet Anna
Akhmatova. After Brodsky was exiled in 1972, he came to
the United States. He wrote nine volumes of poetry, including
the 1980 acclaimed collection “A Part of Speech.” His 1986
collection of essays, “Less Than One,” won the National Book
Critic’s Award for criticism. He received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1987.
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1992-1993
Mona Van Duyn
(1921-2004) Van Duyn, born in Waterloo, Iowa, received a
bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa and a
master’s from the University of Iowa. There were six women
Consultants in Poetry, but Van Duyn was the first woman
Poet Laureate. From 1947-67, she co-edited and co-
published Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature. Her poetry
collection, “Near Changes,” earned her the 1991 Pulitzer
Prize. Other honors include the 1971 National Book Award for
“To See, To Take,” and the 1971 Bollingen Prize.
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1993-1995
Rita Dove
(1952- ) Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, was a 1970 Presidential
Scholar as one of the 100 best high school graduates in the
United States that year. She received a bachelor’s from
Miami University of Ohio and a master’s from the University
of Iowa. Her poetry collection, “Thomas and Beulah,” won the
1987 Pulitzer Prize. She also wrote “Grace Notes” (1989), a
volume of short stories, and “Through the Ivory Gate”
(1992), a novel. Her most recent book of poetry is “American
Smooth” (2004). Dove is a professor of English at the
University of Virginia.
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1995-1997
Robert Hass
(1941- ) Hass was born in San Francisco. He received his B.A.
from St. Mary’s College in California and his M.A. and Ph.D.
from Stanford University. His first collection of poetry, “Field
Guide” (1973), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.
His collection of essays, “Twentieth Century Pleasures,” won
the National Book Critics Award in 1985. Hass also has
helped poet Czeslaw Milosz translate his works. Hass teaches
at the University of California at Berkeley.
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1997-2000
Robert Pinsky
(1940- ) Pinsky, born in New Jersey, is the first Poet Laureate
to serve an unprecedented three consecutive terms. He
attended Rutgers College and Stanford University, where he
held a Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing. He is the
author of six books of poetry, including “Jersey Rain” (2000)
and “The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-
1996.” In 1994, his translation of Dante’s “Inferno” became
a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a bestseller.
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1999-2000
Special Bicentennial Consultants, 1999-2000: Rita Dove,
Louise Glück, and W.S. Merwin
Rita Dove: Dove also served as Poet Laureate from 1993-95.
Louise Glück: (1943- ) Glück was born in New York City and
grew up on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence
College and Columbia University. She is the author of nine
books of poetry, including “The Wild Iris,” which won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Her poetry book “Ararat” (1990)
received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for
Poetry. Other honors include the Bollingen Prize and
fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller
foundations. She teaches at Williams College.
W. S. Merwin: (1927- ) Merwin was born in New York City and
educated at Princeton University. He traveled extensively in
France, Portugal and England. He is the author of more than
15 books of poetry. “A Mask for Janus,” his first book in
1952, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
“The Carrier of Ladders” won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize. He also
published nearly 20 books of translation, numerous plays
and four books of prose. He lives in Hawaii.
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