Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003) was an American poet.
His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award for Poetry by Seven Stories Press in New York City and won Dugan a second National Book Award. He lived in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where he was a member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center.
Awards
Dugan received many awards and fellowships for his poetry.
- Poems (1961): Yale Series of Younger Poets, National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (2001): National Book Award.
- Two Guggenheim Fellowships (1963), (1972)
- A Rockefeller Fellowship (1966)
- Awarded the Prix De Rome by the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1962)
- The Shelley Memorial Award: Poetry Society of America (1982)
- The Award in Literature: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1985)
- Awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 2002.
Works
- Poems (1961)
- Poems 2 (1963)
- Poems 3 (1967)
- Poems 4 (1974)
- Poems Five: New and Collected Poems (1983)
- Poems Six (1989)
- Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (2001)
See also
- American poetry
- List of poets from the United States