The Golden Rose Award, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, was inaugurated in 1919. The rose was modeled after the Gold Rose which is now in the Cluny Museum in Paris. The New England Poetry Club awards the Rose annually for American poetry.

List of winners Earl Marlatt Marshall SchactKatharine Lee Bates Robert FrostJoseph Auslander Nancy Byrd TurnerRobert Hillyer S. Foster DamonFrances Frost Archibald MacLeishGretchen Osgood Warren Robert P. T. CoffinJohn Hall Wheelock John HolmesLeonora Speyer Kenneth PorterDavid McCord Robert FrancisAmos Wilder Theodore SpencerMay Sarton David MortonJohn Ciardi William Rose BenetRichard Eberhart Richard WilburHarry Elmore Hurd Harold Trowbridge PulsiferFrances Minturn Howard Dorothy Burnham EatonSamuel French Morse Norma FarberMorris Bishop Mark Van DorenEdwin Honig Howard NemerovDudley Fitts Robert LowellAbbie Huston Evans Louis UntermeyerElizabeth Coatsworth L.E. SissmanAllen Grossman Stanley KunitzConstance Carrier Charles Edward EatonBarbara Howes X.J. KennedyRobert Penn Warren Robert FitzgeraldMaxine Kumin J.V. CunninghamJohn Updike William Jay SmithPeter Viereck James MerrillGalway Kinnell May SwensonPhilip Levine John HollanderDerek Walcott Donald HallW.S. Merwin Marge PiercyAdrienne Rich Seamus HeaneyF.D. Reeve Frank BidartCzeslaw Milosz Mary OliverWilliam Meredith Robert CreeleyRobert Pinsky Sharon OldsLawrence Ferlinghetti David FerryCarolyn Forché Charles SimicMark Strand Naomi Shihab NyeStephen Sandy Jean ValentineFanny Howe Marilyn Nelson

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