1952
— Discovery Prize (YMHA/92nd St. Y [NY])
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1955
— winner, Yale Series of Younger Poets competition
(judged by W.H. Auden, resulting in publication of Some Trees, 1956)
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1955-56; 1956-57
— Fulbright scholarships to France
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1959
— Longview Foundation Award in poetry (for "How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher..." and "April Fool's Day," published in Big Table magazine, 1959)
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1960; 1964
— Poets' Foundation grants
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1962; 1972
— Ingram Merrill Foundation grants
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1963
— Harriet Monroe Lyric Prize (Poetry magazine)
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1966
— Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize (Poetry magazine)
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1967
— National Book Award finalist (Rivers and Mountains)
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1967; 1973
— Guggenheim Foundation fellowships
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1969
— American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
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1969; 1970
— National Endowment for the Arts publication awards
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1973
— Shelley Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America, for Three Poems)
— Poetry Day Guest of Honor (Modern Poetry Association)
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1974
— Frank O'Hara Prize (Modern Poetry Association) (for "Scheherazade," "As You Came from the Holy Land," "A Man of Words," "Grand Galop," and "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," published in Poetry magazine, 1973-1974)
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1976
— Pulitzer Prize (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror)
— National Book Award (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror )
— National Book Critics Circle Award (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror)
(N.B. This was the first time that the three major American literary prizes were all given for the same book.)
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1977
— Levinson Prize (Poetry magazine)
— *Friends of the Rochester (NY) Public Library Literary Award
— National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Houseboat Days)
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1978
— National Endowment for the Arts Composer/Librettist grant
(with Elliott Carter, Syringa)
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1979-1980
— Rockefeller Foundation grant in playwriting
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1979
— *D.Litt. (Hon.), Southampton College of Long Island University
— *Phi Beta Kappa Poet (Harvard University)
— *English-Speaking Union Poetry Award
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1980
— elected to membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
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1982
— National Book Award finalist (Shadow Train)
— selected Fellow of the Academy of American Poets
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1983
— Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Award (American Poetry Review)
— *New York City Mayor's Award of Honor for Arts and Culture
— *Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters (Bard College)
— elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1984
— National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (A Wave)
— Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist (A Wave)
— *Poet of the Year (Pasadena City College)
— *Literary Lion (New York Public Library)
— *Heritage Award (Deerfield Academy Alumni Association)
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1985
— Bollingen Prize in Poetry (Yale University Library, for A Wave)
— Wallace Stevens Fellowship (Timothy Dwight College/Yale University)
— Lenore Marshall/The Nation Poetry Prize (A Wave)
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1985-1990
— MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
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1986
— Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist (Selected Poems)
— Common Wealth Award in Literature (Modern Language Association)
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1987
— *Golden Plate Award (American Academy of Achievement)
— National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (April Galleons)
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1988-1999
— *served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
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1989
— *Creative Arts Award in Poetry (Medal) (Brandeis University)
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1991
— *Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich)
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1992
— *Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (Poetry/Modern Poetry Association/American Council for the Arts)
— *Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome)
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1993
— *Chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (French Ministry of Education and Culture, Paris)
— Pulitzer Prize finalist (Hotel Lautréamont)
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1994
— *D.Litt. (Hon.), University of Rochester (New York)
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1995
— *Robert Frost Medal (Poetry Society of America)
— Jerome J. Shestack Prize (American Poetry Review)
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1996
— *Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales de Poésie (Brussels; first English language winner)
— *Silver Medal of the City of Paris (France)
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1997
— *Gold Medal for Poetry (American Academy of Arts and Letters; the twelfth such award since they began in 1909)
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1998
— Bingham Poetry Prize (Boston Review of Books, for The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry)
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2000
— *Walt Whitman Citation of Merit (State of New York/New York State Writers Institute; serving as New York State Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003)
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2001
— Lenore Marshall Prize finalist (Academy of American Poets, Your Name Here)
— *Signet Society Medal for Achievement in the Arts (Signet Associates, Harvard University)
— *D.Litt. (Hon.), Harvard University
— *Columbia County [NY] Council on the Arts Special Citation for Literature
— *Wallace Stevens Award (Academy of American Poets)
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2002
— *Officier, Légion d'Honneur of the Republic of France (by presidential decree)
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2003
— *D. Litt. (Hon.), Pace University (NY)
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2005
— National Book Award finalist (Where Shall I Wander)
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2006
— *April 7th declared "'John Ashbery Day' in the City of New York" by the New York City Council (in conjunction with the New School's John Ashbery Festival, a three-day tribute to his work)
— *Named honorary poet for the Signet Society's Annual Dinner (Harvard University)
— *Elected Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
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2007
— *Named first-ever Poet Laureate of MtvU television network
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2008
— *Robert Creeley Award (Acton Memorial Library; Acton, MA is Creeley's hometown)
— *D. Litt. (Hon.), Yale University (CT)
— Griffin Poetry Prize, International Prize Winner (Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems) (Toronto, Canada)
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