Award Robert Frost Medal

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)

Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2011)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (1933)

Pulitzer Prize (1919, 1940, 1951)

Theodore Roosevelt distinguished service medal

American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal for history (1952)

Poetry Society of America gold medal (1919, 1921)

Taminent Institution award

Commander, Order of the North Star (1938)

New York Civil War Round Table silver medal

University of Louisville award of merit

Albert Einstein award, Yeshiva College

Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup

International Poet's Award

Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (1960)

Litteris et Artibus medal (1959)

NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award (1965)

Friend of American Writers award

Levinson Prize

American Poet's Corner (2018)

Ph.D., Uppsala University, 1948

LL.D., Rollins College, 1941

LL.D., Augustana College, 1948

LL.D., University of Illinois, 1953

United States Postal Service stamp

Phi Beta Kappa

Poet Laureate of Minnesota (2008)

MacArthur Fellow (1985)

American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1983)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1980)

Légion d'Honneur (Officier, 2002)

National Humanities Medal (2011)

Wallace Stevens Award (2001)

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1992)

Bollingen Prize (1984)

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (1984)

Academy of American Poets (Fellow, 1982)

Shelley Memorial Award (1972/1973)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1969)

National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1969)

Robert Creeley Award (2008)

America Award for a lifetime contribution to international writing (2008)

The Raymond Roussel Society Medal (2017)

New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011)

National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2011)

Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1987)

Yale Younger Poets Prize (1956)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1967, 1973)

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (2002)

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2022)

Shelley Memorial Award (1984)

Lannan Award (1993)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1962)

National Institute of Arts and Letters grant

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1995)

Lannan Literary Award (Poetry ∙ 1993)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1965)

Lenore Marshall prize (1976)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1980)

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1987-1988 )

Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize (1948)

Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize (1978)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959)

Oscar Blumenthal Prize (1950)

Guggenheim fellowship

Prix de Rome fellowship

Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award (1957)

Boston Festival Award (1959)

Ford Foundation fellowship

Melville Cane Award (1962)

Sarah Josepha Hale Award (1968)

Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University (1971)

Prix Henri Desfeuilles (1971)

Shelley Memorial Award (1973)

Chevalier, Ordre des Palmes Academiques (1983)

Gold Medal for Poetry, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1991)

Edward MacDowell Medal (1992)

National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (1994)

National Medal of the Arts (1994)

Academy American Achievement award (1995)

T. S. Eliot Award (1996)

Wallace Stevens Award (2006)

Aiken Taylor Award (2006)

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation (1994)

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2006)

Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women (1985)

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1978-79)

Lucretia Mott Award (1984)

PEN Writing Award (1969)

Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom ( [1989])

Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (1985)

Wallace Stevens Award (2018)

Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2021)

MacDowell Medal (2022)

Jackson Poetry Prize (2022)

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2022)

Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)