Loretta Lynn, Dan + Shay and More Earn 2021 ACM Honors Loretta Lynn, Dan + Shay and more country stars and industry players will receive ACM Honors in 2021. The Academy of Country Music announced the recipients of this year's special awards, as well as its plans for the 2021 ACM Honors event, on Tuesday (June 15). Lynn, as well as songwriters Gretchen Peters and the late Curly Putman, are receiving the ACM Poet's Award, which honors songwriters "for outstanding and longstanding musical and/or lyrical contributions throughout their career, with special consideration given to a song or songs’ impact on the culture of country music," per the ACM Dan + Shay, meanwhile, are the winners of the ACM Jim Reeves International Award, which honors "outstanding contributions to the acceptance of country music throughout the world."