List of winners of the Academy of American Poets fellowship
# List of winners of the Academy of American Poets fellowship

The Academy Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement" at mid-career. Fellows are awarded a stipend which is $25,000. The fellowship program was created in 1946, since 1995 given in memory of James Ingram Merrill.

The fellowship was the first of the academy's portfolio of awards; the academy's website describes it as "the first of its kind in the United States."

Academy fellows:

* 1937 Edwin Markham
* 1946 Edgar Lee Masters
* 1947 Ridgely Torrence
* 1948 Percy MacKaye
* 1950 E. E. Cummings
* 1952 Padraic Colum
* 1953 Robert Frost
* 1954 Louise Townsend Nicholl; Oliver St. John Gogarty
* 1955 Rolfe Humphries
* 1956 William Carlos Williams
* 1957 Conrad Aiken
* 1958 Robinson Jeffers
* 1959 Louise Bogan
* 1960 Jesse Stuart
* 1961 Horace Gregory
* 1962 John Crowe Ransom
* 1963 Ezra Pound; Allen Tate
* 1964 Elizabeth Bishop
* 1965 Marianne Moore
* 1966 Archibald MacLeish; John Berryman
* 1967 Mark Van Doren
* 1968 Stanley Kunitz
* 1969 Richard Eberhart; Anthony Hecht
* 1970 Howard Nemerov
* 1971 James Wright
* 1972 W. D. Snodgrass
* 1973 W. S. Merwin
* 1974 Léonie Adams
* 1975 Robert Hayden
* 1976 J. V. Cunningham
* 1977 Louis Coxe
* 1978 Josephine Miles
* 1979 May Swenson; Mark Strand
* 1980 Mona Van Duyn
* 1981 Richard Hugo
* 1982 John Frederick Nims; John Ashbery
* 1983 James Schuyler; Philip Booth
* 1984 Richmond Lattimore; Robert Francis
* 1985 Amy Clampitt; Maxine Kumin
* 1986 Irving Feldman; Howard Moss
* 1987 Josephine Jacobsen; Alfred Corn
* 1988 Donald Justice
* 1989 Richard Howard
* 1990 William Meredith
* 1991 J. D. McClatchy
* 1992 Adrienne Rich
* 1993 Gerald Stern
* 1994 David Ferry
* 1995 Denise Levertov
* 1996 Jay Wright
* 1997 John Haines
* 1998 Charles Simic
* 1999 Gwendolyn Brooks
* 2000 Lyn Hejinian
* 2001 Ellen Bryant Voigt
* 2002 Sharon Olds
* 2003 Li-Young Lee
* 2004 Jane Hirshfield
* 2005 Claudia Rankine
* 2006 Carl Phillips
* 2007 James McMichael
* 2008 Brigit Pegeen Kelly
* 2009 Harryette Mullen
* 2010 Khaled Mattawa
* 2011 Joan Larkin
* 2012 Brenda Hillman
* 2013 Carolyn Forché
* 2014 Tracy K. Smith
* 2015 Marie Howe
* 2016 Natasha Trethewey
* 2017 Ed Roberson
* 2018 Martín Espada
* 2019 Ilya Kaminsky
* 2020 Carmen Giménez Smith
