Editing Adrienne Rich (section)

==Selected awards and honors==
Each year links to its corresponding "[year]() in poetry" article:
* [[1950 in poetry|1950]]: [[Yale Younger Poets Award]] for ''A Change of World''.
* [[1952 in poetry|1952]]: [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]
* [[1960 in poetry|1960]]: [[National Institute of Arts and Letters]] Award
* [[1970 in poetry|1970]]: [[Shelley Memorial Award]]
* [[1974 in poetry|1974]]: [[National Book Award for Poetry]] (a split award) for ''Diving into the Wreck''<ref name=nba1974>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1974 "National Book Awards – 1974"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 11, 2012. (With acceptance speech by Rich and essay by [[Evie Shockley]] from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref>
* [[1979 in poetry|1979]]: Honorary Doctorate Smith College
* [[1986 in poetry|1986]]: Inaugural [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]
* [[1989 in poetry|1989]]: Honorary doctorate from [[Harvard University]]
* 1989: National Poetry Association Award for Distinguished Service to the Art of Poetry
* [[1990 in poetry|1990]]: [[Bill Whitehead Award]] for Lifetime Achievement (for gay or lesbian writing)
* [[1991 in poetry|1991]]: Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
* 1991: Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter R|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterR.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618090045/http://amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterR.pdf |archive-date=2006-06-18 |url-status=live|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 7, 2011}}</ref>
* [[1992 in poetry|1992]]: [[Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize]]
* 1992: [[Poets' Prize]] for ''Atlas of the Difficult World''
* 1992: [[Frost Medal]]
* 1992: [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets|Academy of American Poets Fellowship]]
* [[1994 in poetry|1994]]: [[MacArthur Fellowship]]
* [[1996 in poetry|1996]]: [[Wallace Stevens Award]]
* [[1997 in poetry|1997]]: [[National Medal of Arts]] (refused)
* [[1999 in poetry|1999]]: [[Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]] from the Lannan Foundation
* [[2006 in poetry|2006]]: <!-- NOT the Literarian Award -->[[National Book Foundation]] [[National Book Award#Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters|Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters]]<ref name=medal>
[http://www.nationalbook.org/amerletters.html "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 11, 2012. (With acceptance speech by Rich and introduction by Mark Doty.)</ref>
* 2006: David R Kessler Award for LGBTQ Studies, [[CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fifteenth Annual Kessler Lecture Delivered by Adrienne Rich – CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies |url=https://clags.org/articles/fifteenth-annual-kessler-lecture-delivered-by-adrienne-rich/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[2010 in poetry|2010]]: Lifetime Recognition Award from the [[Griffin Poetry Prize]]
* [[2017 in poetry|2017]]: Finalist, [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] (posthumous)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2017|title=2017 Pulitzer Prizes|website=Pulitzer|access-date=April 10, 2017}}</ref>
* 2019: In June 2019, Rich was one of the inaugural fifty American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the [[National LGBTQ Wall of Honor]] within the [[Stonewall National Monument]] (SNM) in [[New York City]]'s [[Stonewall Inn]].<ref name=":23">{{cite web|url=https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/stonewall-inn-lgbtq-wall-honor|title=National LGBTQ Wall of Honor unveiled at Stonewall Inn|last=Glasses-Baker|first=Becca|date=June 27, 2019|website=www.metro.us|access-date=June 28, 2019}}</ref><ref name="SDGLN">{{cite web|url=https://sdgln.com/news/2019/06/19/national-lgbtq-wall-honor-be-unveiled-historic-stonewall-inn|title=National LGBTQ Wall of Honor to be unveiled at historic Stonewall Inn|first=Timothy|last=Rawles|date=June 19, 2019|website=San Diego Gay and Lesbian News|language=en|access-date=June 21, 2019}}</ref> The SNM is the first [[National monument (United States)|U.S. national monument]] dedicated to [[LGBT rights in the United States|LGBTQ rights]] and [[History of LGBT people|history]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Laird|first=Cynthia|url=https://www.ebar.com/news/news//272833|title=Groups seek names for Stonewall 50 honor wall|website=The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc.|language=en|access-date=May 24, 2019}}</ref> and the wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019|50th anniversary]] of the [[Stonewall riots]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sachet|first=Donna|url=http://sfbaytimes.com/stonewall-50/|title=Stonewall 50|date=April 3, 2019|website=San Francisco Bay Times|access-date=May 25, 2019}}</ref>