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Poetry Pulitzers
Poetry Pulitzer Winners 1917-Present
Date | People | Work |
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1918 | Sara Teasdale | Love Songs |
1919 | Margaret Widdemer | Old Road to Paradise |
1920 | Carl Sandburg | Corn Huskers |
1922 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Collected Poems |
1923 | The Ballad of the Harp Weaver: A few Figs from Thistles; eight sonnets in American Poetry, 1922; A Miscellany | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
1924 | Robert Frost | New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes |
1925 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | The Man Who Died Twice |
1926 | Amy Lowell | What's O'Clock |
1927 | Leonora Speyer | Fiddler's Farewell |
1928 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Tristram |
1929 | Stephen Vincent Benet | John's Brown Body |
1930 | Conrad Aiken | Selected Poems |
1931 | Robert Frost | Collected Poems |
1932 | George Dillon | The Flowering Stone |
1933 | Archibald MacLeish | Conquistador |
1934 | Robert Hillyer | Collected Verse |
1935 | Audrey Waurdemann | Bright Ambush |
1936 | Robert P. Tristram Coffin | Strange Honliness |
1937 | Robert Frost | A Further Range |
1938 | Marya Zaturenska | Cold Morning Sky |
1939 | John Gould Fletcher | Selected Poems |
1940 | Mark Van Doren | Collected Poems |
1941 | Leonard Bacon | Sunderland Capture |
1942 | William Rose Benet | The Dust Which Is God |
1943 | Robert Frost | A Witness Tree |
1944 | Stephen Vincent Benet | Western Star |
1945 | Karl Shapiro | V-Letter and Other Poems |
1946 | blank | blank |
1947 | Robert Lowell | Lord Weary's Castle |
1948 | W. H. Auden | The Age of Anxiety |
1949 | Peter Viereck | Terror and Decorum |
1950 | Gwendolyn Brooks | Annie Allen |
1951 | Complete Poems | Carl Sandburg |
1952 | Collected Poems | Marianne Moore |
1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems 1917-1952 |
1954 | Theodore Roethke | The Waking |
1955 | Wallace Stevens | Collected Poems |
1956 | Elizabeth Bishop | Poems North & South |
1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of This World |
1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems 1954-1956 |
1959 | Stanley Kunitz | Selected Poems: 1928-1958 |
1960 | W. D. Snodgrass | Heart's Needle |
1961 | Phyllis McGinley | Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades |
1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems |
1963 | William Carlos Williams | Pictures from Brueghel |
1964 | Louis Simpson | At the End of the Open Road |
1965 | John Berryman | 77 Dream Songs |
1966 | Richard Eberhart | Selected Poems |
1967 | Anne Sexton | Live or Die |
1968 | Anthony Hecht | The Hard Hours |
1969 | George Oppen | Of Being Numerous |
1970 | Richard Howard | Untitled Subjects |
1971 | W. S. Merwin | The Carrier of Ladders |
1972 | James Wright | Collected Poems |
1973 | Maxine Winokur Kumin | Up Country |
1974 | Robert Lowell | The Dolphin |
1975 | Gary Snyder | Turtle Island |
1976 | John Ashbery | Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
1977 | James Merrill | Divine Comedies: Poems |
1978 | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems |
1979 | Robert Penn Warren | Now and Then 1976-78 |
1980 | Donald Justice | Selected Poems |
1981 | Hames Schuyler | The Morning of the Poem |
1982 | Sylvia Plath | Collected Poems |
1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems |
1984 | Mary Oliver | American Primitive |
1985 | Carolyn Kizer | Yin |
1986 | Henry Taylor | The Flying Change |
1987 | Rita Dove | Thomas and Beulah |
1988 | William Meredith | Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems |
1989 | Richard Wilbur | New and Collected Poems |
1990 | Charles Simic | The World Doesn't End |
1991 | Mona Van Duyn | New Changes |
1992 | James Tate | Selected Poems |
1993 | Louise Gluck | The Wild Iris |
1994 | Yusef Komunyakaa | Neon Vernacular |
1995 | Philip Levine | The Simple Truth |
1996 | Josie Graham | the Dream of the Unified Field |
1997 | Lisel Mueller | Alive Together: New and Selected Poems |
1998 | Charles Wright | Black Zodiac |
1999 | Mark Strand | Blizzard of One |
2000 | C. K. Williams | Repair |
2001 | Stephen Dunn | Different Hours |
2002 | Carl Dennis | Practical Gods |
2003 | Paul Muldoon | Moy Sand and Gravel |
2004 | Franz Wright | Walking to Martha's Vineyard |
2005 | Ted Kooser | Delight and Shadows |
2006 | Claudia Emerson | Late Wife |
2007 | Natasha Trethewey | Native Guard |
2008 | Robert Hass | Time and Materials |
2009 | W.S. Merwin | The Shadow of Sirius |
2010 | Rae Armantrout | Versed |
2011 | Kay Ryan | The Best of It: New and Selected Poems |
2012 | Tracy K. Smith | Life on Mars |
2013 | Sharon Old's | Stag's Leap |
2014 | Vjay Seshadri | 3 Sections |
2015 | Gregory Pardlo | Digest |
2016 | Peter Balakian | Ozone Journal |
2017 | Tyehimba Jess | Olio |
2018 | Frank Bidart | Half light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 |
2019 | Forrest Gander | Be With |
2020 | Jericho Brown | The Tradition |
2021 | Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem |
2022 | Diane Seuss | frank: poems |