51. Michael Ryan 51. Gjertrud Schnackenberg 51. Tom Sleigh 51. Robert Wrigley 51. Richard Zenith [The following poets tied at 79. To include them all would exceed the 100-poet limit; therefore, the tie-breaker will be the Pulitzer, National Book Award and Nation Book Critics Circle Award, which are traditionally considered the most prestigious awards] 79. Jorie Graham (2) 79. Terence Hayes 79. Edward Hirsch 79. Laura Kasischke 79. Ted Kooser 79. Nathaniel Mackey 79. Philip Schultz 79. Tracy K. Smith 79. Henry S. Taylor 79. Natasha Trethewey [To round out the list, I have selected the remaining twelve poets among the contemporary poets with two major awards.] 79. Cyrus Cassells (2) 79. Eduardo Corral 79. Clayton Eschleman 79. Lyn Hejinian 79. Ilya Kaminsky 79. Jane Kenyon 79. Heather McHugh 79. Thylias Moss 79. Kathleen Peirce 79. Cathy Song 79. Chase Twitchell 79. Gary Young The 30 major poetry awards considered for these figures are the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Aiken Taylor, American Academy of Arts & Letters, Arthur Rense, Bess Hokin, Bobbitt, Bollingen, Frederick Bock, Griffin International, JF Nims Memorial, J Howard & Barbara Wood, Kingsley Tufts (excluding the discovery award), LA Times Book Prize, Landon Translation Award, Lannan, Lenore Marshall, Levinson Prize, National Book, National Book Critics Circle, PEN/Voelcker, PEN Translation, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (somehow different than the other award), Poet Laureate, Pulitzer, Robert Frost Medal, Ruth Lilly, Shelley Memorial, Wallace Stevens, Whiting, and William Carlos Williams.
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