Awards

From 1967–1976, a jury of poet-judges including Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, May Swenson, and others presented the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award and International Award, which included manuscript publication through the University of Pittsburgh Press. These awards gave rise to the Pitt Poetry Series, which remains a major voice in poetry publishing today.

From 1988–2009, the IPF presented the Charity Randall Citation, an award for poets committed to “taking the public presentation of their poetry as seriously as its composition.” This distinguished list of recipients includes a number of Nobel Laureates, U.S. Poet Laureates, and Pulitzer Prize winners.

  • 1988: Galway Kinnell, Naomi Shihab Nye

    1989: Tomas Tranströmer, W.S. Merwin

    1990: Karl Shapiro, Sandra M. Gilbert

    1991: Charles Causley, Lucille Clifton

    1992: Derek Walcott, Carolyn Forché

    1993: Donald Hall, Miller Williams

    1994: Brendan Galvin, Peter Makuck

    1995: Ariel Dorfman, Jack Gilbert

    1996: Linda Pastan, Louis Simpson

    1997: Eavan Boland, Robert Pinsky

    1998: Nancy Willard, Shirley Kaufman, Heather McHugh

    1999: Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Maxine Kumin

    2000: Mary Karr

    2001: Eamon Grennan, Lawrence Raab, Jay Wright

    2002: Billy Collins, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Sharon Olds

    2003: Eugene J. McCarthy

    2004: Wendell Berry, Dana Gioia, Seamus Heaney

    2005: Martín Espada, Richard Wilbur

    2006: C.K. Williams

    2007: Karen Kovacik, Sam Hamill

    2008: Brian Turner, Paul Muldoon

    2009: Adam Zagajewski

  • 1968: Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Selected Poems (trans. Talât Sait Halman)

    1970: Adonis, The Blood of Adonis (trans. Samuel Hazo)

    1971: Tomas Tranströmer, Windows and Stones (trans. May Swenson and Leif Sjoberg)

    1973: Abba Kovner, A Canopy in the Desert (trans. Shirley Kaufman)

    1974: Dennis Scott, Uncle Time

    1974: Tom Lowenstein, Eskimo Poems from Greenland and Canada

    1974: Odysseus Elytis, Axion Esti (trans. Edmund Keeley and George Savidis)

    1976: Denis de Rougemont, The Growl of Deeper Waters (trans. Samuel Hazo and Beth Luey)

    1976: Paul-Marie LaPointe, The Terror of the Snows (trans. Douglas Jones)

  • 1967: Jan Den Boer, Learning the Way

    1968: David P. Young, Sweating Out the Winter

    1969: Shirley Kaufman, The Floor Keeps Turning

    1970: Richard Shelton, The Tattooed Desert

    1971: Larry Levis, Wrecking Crew

    1972: Marc Weber, 48 Small Poems

    1973: Judith Minty, Lake Songs and Other Fears

    1974: Thomas Rabbitt, Exile

    1975: Mark Halperin, Backroads

    1976: Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin