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The Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement. The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets including Witter Bynner.

The medal was first awarded in 1930, to three individuals

In Memory of Bliss Carmen (Canadian)
In memory of George Edward Woodberry
and to Jessie Rittenhouse.

For the next 53 years, the Frost Medal was awarded only eleven times, to poets at the end of their careers. In 1984, it became an annual award to a living poet. Since 1995, the recipient of the Frost Medal has delivered the Frost Medal Lecture, a retrospective reading and talk that is the highlight of the Annual Awards Ceremony.

Robert Frost was the fourth recipient of the Frost Medal, in 1941, after he had retired from Amherst College. Robert Lee Frost (March 26 1874 &ndash January 29 1963 was an American Poet. Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.

The "Robert Frost Award" is a separate prize (with a $1,000 award) given out by the Robert Frost Foundation of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lawrence is a city in Essex County Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. [1]

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Recipients

The Frost Medal winners (each year is a link to Wikipedia article for that year in literature):

Notes

  1. ^ Robert Frost Foundation Web site, with "Awards" page and "Past Winners" page, accessed April 24, 2008

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