PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is given biennially to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.^[1]

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN America awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.^[2]

Winners

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry winners^[3]

Year	Recipient	Judges	Ref.
1994	Jane Kenyon
1996	Franz Wright
1998	C. K. Williams
2000	Heather McHugh
2002	Frederick Seidel
2004	Robert Pinsky
2006	Linda Gregg	Michael Hofmann, Timothy Liu, and Vijay Seshadri
2008	Kimiko Hahn	Kwame Dawes, Mark Doty, and Marie Howe
2010	Marilyn Hacker	Christopher Ricks, Marie Ponsot, and David Ferry
2012	Toi Derricotte	Dan Chiasson, Aracelis Girmay, and A. Van Jordan
2014	Frank Bidart	Peg Boyers, Toi Derricotte, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips	[4][5][6]
2016	Ed Roberson	Catherine Barnett, Jericho Brown, and Tina Chang	[7][8]
2018	Kamau Brathwaite	Ed Roberson, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Ocean Vuong	[9]
2020	Rigoberto González	Cornelius Eady, Linda Gregerson, Deborah Paredez, and Monica Youn
2021	Victoria Chang		[10]
2022	Diane Seuss	Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Lia Purpura, and Safiya Sinclair	[11]
2023	Robin Coste Lewis		[12]
2025	Frank X Walker

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literary awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature