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X. J. Kennedy's
Recognitions include the Lamont Award of the Academy of American Poets
(for his first book, Nude Descending a Staircase in 1961), the Los
Angeles Book Award for poetry, the Aiken-Taylor Award for Modern
American Poetry (given by the University of the South and The Sewanee
Review), Guggenheim and National Arts Council fellowships, the first
Michael Braude Award for light verse (given by the American Academy &
Institute of Arts & Letters to a poet of any nation), the Shelley
Memorial Award, the Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Club,
honorary degrees from Lawrence and Adelphi universities, and
Westfield State College, and the National Council of Teachers
of English Year 2000 Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry
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Kenneth W. Gray
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