James Schuyler
Schuyler's first important poetry book, Freely Espousing, came out in 1969 when he was 46. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1981 for The Morning of the Poem. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, and a Fellowship from the American Academy of Poets in 1983. Along with his friends O'Hara, Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and Kenneth Koch, he was part of what was called The New York School of poets.