A.R. Ammons

Born: 18-02-1926

Died: 25-02-2001

Status: Active

Books: 0 / 59 total (1 not ignored) — 0 eBooks, 0 AudioBooks

Added by: Contributor to Poetry Daily

Added: 2026-08-29

Last updated: 2026-09-21 13:12

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Most recent book on record

Poetry Daily

Date: 2003

About

Archie Randolph Ammons was born outside Whiteville, North Carolina, on February 18, 1926. He started writing poetry aboard a U. S. Navy destroyer escort in the South Pacific. After completing service in World War II, he attended Wake Forest University and the University of California at Berkeley.

His honors included the Academy's Wallace Stevens Award, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He lived in Ithaca, New York, where he was Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell University until his retirement in 1998. Ammons died on February 25, 2001.