H. Fairchild Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Rick Hilles for Brother Salvage: Poems AML Award for poetry to Lance Larsen for In All Their Animal Brilliance Arthur Rense Prize awarded to Daniel Hoffman by the American Academy of Arts and Letters Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Jay Wright Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Susanna Childress Winner, Jagged with Love California Poet Laureate: Al Young, appointed Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards: David Hernandez, Always Danger Discovery/The Nation Award: Eduardo C. Corral Frost Medal: Marie Ponsot National Book Award for Poetry: W. S. Merwin: Migration: New and Selected Poems North Carolina Poet Laureate: Kathryn Stripling Byer appointed. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows () Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Marina Tarlinskaya Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: C. K. Williams Wallace Stevens Award: Gerald Stern Whiting Awards: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, John Keene, Dana Levin, Spencer Reece, Tracy K. Smith Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Claudia Rankine Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: See also Poetry List of poetry awards External links "A Timeline of English Poetry", Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto References 2000s in poetry Poetry