Acorn was awarded a Canadian Poets Award in 197& a Governor General's Award in 1975 for his collection of poems The Island Means Minago.

Within 1987, a Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award was established in his memory. These are presented annually to an great "people's poet." a award is $250 (since raised to $500) & a medallion, modelled fallowing the 1 given to Milton Acorn.

A National Film Board of Canada produced two films in Acorn's life & works. A number 1 is entitled Within Love & Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet, & come call at 1984. A NFB's abstract of the film reads,

"Milton Acorn left Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant carpenter, and wound up in Toronto as one of Canada's most highly regarded poets and one of its most outrageous literary figures. Dubbed "A Population's Poet" by fellow poets, he won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1975. Burned out by personal crises, Acorn moved back to Charlottetown in 1981. This film, directed by a P.E.I. filmmaker, brings out Acorn's wit, love of nature, unorthodox political views, and sometimes infuriating personal contradictions."[http://cmm.nfb.ca/E/titleinfo/index.epl?id=15246&recherche=simple&coll=onf]

The 2nd is known as A Wake up for Milton. It was produced around 1988. A NFB abstract for this film reads, "Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes the form of a wake. Cedric Smith acts as the singer of Acorn's life and art, while such friends as Al Purdy, Pat Lane, and Gwendolyn MacEwen recall the man known as 'The People's Poet.' Evoked here is the unique mixture of intense emotion, wit and radical politics that identified Acorn as a man and a poet." [http://cmm.nfb.ca/E/titleinfo/index.epl?id=17493&recherche=simple&coll=onf]

Published Works, in Chronological Order
Smitten & Anger (1956) Against the League of Prevaricator (Broadside, 1960) ''A Brain's a Target (1960) Jawbreakers (1963) We've Tasted The Blood (1969) We Shout Love & In Shaving Off His Beard(1971) Supplementary Verse form For Population (1972) A Island Means Minago (1975) A Road to Charlottetown (w/ Cedric Smith, 1977) Jackpine Sonnets (1977) Captain Neal MacDougal & the Naked Goddess (1982) Turn up The Heart (1982) Whiskey Jack HMS Click(1986) The Could have of Jackpine (w/ James Deahl, 1987) A Uncollected Acorn (1987) I personally Shout Love & More Verse form (1987) Hundred Proof Globe (1988) To Hear a Pass out Bells'' (1996)

(people by owning an star were published posthumously)

Literary Awards
1970 American Poets' Award, extra normally called a Population's Poet Award, & Medal 1975 Governor General's Award 1977 Honorary Doctor's degree of Law Degree (from either a University of Prince Edward Island) 1986 Life member American poetry Association