Alan Dugan

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)