President Obama awarding National Humanities medal to John Ashbery in 2012

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President Obama awarding National Humanities medal to John Ashbery in 2012

By Priscilla Matthews

September 04, 2017

John Ashbery was awarded a National Humanities medal by President Barack Obama in 2012. He became the only poet to win book world’s triple crown including, the Pulitzer Prize in 1976, National Book of Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award in the same year.