Louise Glück

Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry, Professor in the Practice

Publications

American Originality: Essays on Poetry, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017
Faithful and Virtuous Night, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014
Poems, 1962-2012, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012
A Village Life, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009
Averno, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
October, Sarabande Press, 2003
The Seven Ages, Ecco Press, 2001
Vita Nova, Ecco Press, 1999
Meadowlands, Ecco Press, 1996
The First Four Books, Ecco Press, 1995
Proofs and Theories (Collected Essays), Ecco Press, 1994
The Wild Iris, Ecco Press, 1992
Ararat, Ecco Press, 1990
The Triumph of Achilles, Ecco Press, 1985
Descending Figure, Ecco Press, 1980
The House on Marshland, Ecco Press, 1975
Firstborn, New American Library, 1968; Ecco Press, 1981

Awards & Fellowships

Nobel Prize in Literature, 2020

The Tomas Tranströmer Prize (given every 2 years), 2020
National Humanities Medal, 2016
Gold Medal in Poetry, American Academy of Arts and Letters (given every 6 years in poetry), 2015
American Philosophical Society, Elected 2015
National Book Award, 2014
Academy of Achievement, 2012
Aiken-Taylor Award, 2010
Short List, Griffin Prize (Canada): Best Book by a Non-Canadian, 2010
Stevens Award, Academy of American Poets, 2008
P.E.N. Winship Award, 2007
Ambassador’s Award, The English Speaking Union, The Best Book of Poetry, 2007
Finalist, National Book Award, 2006
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2003 – 2004
Bollingen Prize, 2001
Medal, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, MIT, 2000 (MIT does not give Honorary Degrees)
Ambassador’s Award, The English Speaking Union, The Best Book of Poetry, 1999
The New Yorker Magazine Book Award for Poetry, 1999
Jerome J. Shestack Prize, American Poetry Review, 1999
Finalist, National Book Award, 1999
Member, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1996 –
Doctor of Letters, Middlebury College, 1996
Doctor of Letters, Skidmore College, 1995
Steloff Lecturer, Skidmore College, 1995
P.E.N. Martha Albrand Award, First Non-Fiction, 1995
Vermont State Poet, 1994 – 1996
Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1993 –
Doctor of Letters, Williams College, 1993
Pulitzer Prize, 1993
William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America, 1993
Jerome J. Shestack Prize, American Poetry Review, 1992
Bobbitt National Poetry Prize, 1992 (shared with Mark Strand)
Finalist, National Book Award, 1992
Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1990
National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Writing Fellowship, 1988 – 1989
Guggenheim Foundation, Fellowship in Poetry, 1987 – 1988
Boston Globe Poetry Prize, 1987
Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, Wellesley College, 1986
National Book Critics Circle Award, 1985
Melville Cane Award, Poetry Society of America, 1985
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Award in Literature, 1981
National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Writing Fellowship, 1979 – 1980
Vermont Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant, 1978 – 1979
Guggenheim Foundation, Fellowship in Poetry, 1975 – 1976
Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, Poetry Magazine, 1971
National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Writing Fellowship, 1969 – 1970
Rockefeller Foundation, Grant in Poetry, 1968 – 1969