Glück received numerous honors for her work. Below are honors she received for both her body of work and individual works.
Honors for body of work
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1967)[78]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1970)[79]
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1975)[80]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1979)[79]
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1981)[81]
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1987)[80]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988)[79]
- Honorary Doctorate, Williams College (1993)[82]
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member (1993)[83]
- Vermont State Poet (1994–1998)[84]
- Honorary Doctorate, Skidmore College (1995)[85]
- Honorary Doctorate, Middlebury College (1996)[86]
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Elected Member (1996)[87]
- Lannan Literary Award (1999)[88]
- School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 50th Anniversary Medal, MIT (2001)[89]
- Bollingen Prize (2001)[90]
- Poet Laureate of the United States (2003–2004)[91]
- Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets (2008)[92]
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry (2010)[93]
- American Academy of Achievement, Elected Member (2012)[94]
- American Philosophical Society, Elected Member (2014)[95]
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry (2015)[96]
- National Humanities Medal (2015)[97]
- Tranströmer Prize (2020)[98]
- Nobel Prize in Literature (2020)[3]
- Honorary Doctorate, Dartmouth College (2021)[99]
Honors for individual works
- Melville Cane Award for The Triumph of Achilles (1985)[100]
- National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles (1985)[101]
- Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Ararat (1992)[102]
- William Carlos Williams Award for The Wild Iris (1993)[21]
- Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris (1993)[103]
- PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry (1995)[104]
- Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for Vita Nova (2000)[105]
- Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for Averno (2007)[106]
- L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Averno (2007)[107]
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962–2012 (2012)[108]
- National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014)[109]
In addition, The Wild Iris, Vita Nova, and Averno were all finalists for the National Book Award.[110] The Seven Ages was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.[111][101] A Village Life was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize.[112]
Glück's poems have been widely anthologized, including in the Norton Anthology of Poetry,[113] the Oxford Book of American Poetry,[114] and the Columbia Anthology of American Poetry.[115]
Elected or invited posts
In 1999, Glück, along with the poets Rita Dove and W. S. Merwin, was asked to serve as a special consultant to the Library of Congress for that institution's bicentennial. In this capacity, she helped the Library of Congress to determine programming to mark its 200th anniversary celebration.[116] In 1999, she was also elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a post she held until 2005.[117] In 2003, she was appointed the judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, a position she held until 2010. The Yale Series is the oldest annual literary competition in the United States, and during her time as judge, she selected for publication works by the poets Jay Hopler, Peter Streckfus, and Fady Joudah, among others.[118]
Glück was a visiting faculty member at many institutions, including Stanford University,[119] Boston University,[120] the University of North Carolina, Greensboro,[121] and the Iowa Writers Workshop.[122]
