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Award of Merit Medal in Poetry

The Award of Merit Medal is accompanied by $25,000 and given each year, in rotation, to an outstanding person in America representing one of the following arts: Painting, the Short Story, Sculpture, the Novel, Poetry, and Drama. The first Award of Merit Medal in Poetry was conferred in 1945.

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