Poetry Path: A. R. Ammons

A.R. Ammons was born outside Whiteville, North Carolina in 1926. He authored nearly thirty collections of poetry, including Garbage (W. W. Norton, 1993), which won the National Book Award. He passed away in 2001 after a prolific career in which he collected an array of honors, including the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal in 1994, a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, and the Bollingen Prize in 1975.

Photo by Daniel Terna

A.R. Ammons, excerpt from Garbage. Copyright © 1993 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

The Poetry Path is made possible through a partnership with Battery Park City Authority, partners in design and fabrication of the Poetry Path, with additional support from our Outreach Partner, Goldman Sachs. Special thanks to the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation for funding the Poetry Path planning process, and to the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation for supporting Poetry Path educational initiatives for youth and children.