Pulitzer Prize Winners - Poetry
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- 2013 Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
- 2012 Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
- 2011 The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan (Grove/Atlantic)
- 2010 Versed by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)
- 2009 The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
- 2008 Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
- 2008 Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
- 2007 Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
- 2006 Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
- 2005 Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
- 2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 2003 Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (Farrar)
- 2002 Practical Gods by Carl Dennis (Penguin Books)
- 2001 Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)
- 2000 Repair by C.K. Williams (Farrar)
- 1999 Blizzard of One by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1998 Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)
- 1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
- 1996 The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)
- 1995 The Simple Truth by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England)
- 1993 The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (The Ecco Press)
- 1992 Selected Poems by James Tate (Wesleyan University Press)
- 1991 Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1990 The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- 1989 New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- 1988 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1987 Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove (Carnegie-Mellon University Press)
- 1986 The Flying Change by Henry Taylor (Louisiana State University Press)
- 1985 Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions)
- 1984 American Primitive by Mary Oliver (Atlanti'Little)
- 1983 Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin)
- 1982 The Collected Poems by the late Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
- 1981 The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler (Farrar)
- 1980 Selected Poems by Donald Justice (Atheneum)
- 1979 Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
- 1978 Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)
- 1977 Divine Comedies by James Merrill (Atheneum)
- 1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery (Viking)
- 1975 Turtle Island by Gary Snyder (New Directions)
- 1974 The Dolphin by Robert Lowell (Farrar)
- 1973 Up Country by Maxine Kumin (Harper)
- 1972 Collected Poems by James Wright (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
- 1971 The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin (Atheneum)
- 1970 Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard (Atheneum)
- 1969 Of Being Numerous by George Oppen (New Directions)
- 1968 The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum)
- 1967 Live or Die by Anne Sexton (Houghton)
- 1966 Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart (New Directions)
- 1965 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (Farrar)
- 1964 At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
- 1963 Pictures from Brueghel by the late William Carlos Williams (New Directions)
- 1962 Poems by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. Press)
- 1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
- 1960 Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass (Knopf)
- 1959 Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz (Little)
- 1958 Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
- 1957 Things of This World by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt)
- 1956 Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton)
- 1955 Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens (Knopf)
- 1954 The Waking by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday)
- 1953 Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton)
- 1952 Collected Poems by Marianne Moore (Macmillan)
- 1951 Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)
- 1950 Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper)
- 1949 Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck (Scribner)
- 1948 The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden (Random)
- 1947 Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell (Harcourt)
- 1946 (No Award)
- 1945 V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro (Reynal)
- 1944 Western Star by the late Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
- 1943 A Witness Tree by Robert Frost (Holt)
- 1942 The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet (Dodd)
- 1941 Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon (Harper)
- 1940 Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren (Holt)
- 1939 Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar)
- 1938 Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska (Macmillan)
- 1937 A Further Range by Robert Frost (Holt)
- 1936 Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Macmillan)
- 1935 Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann (John Day)
- 1934 Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer (Knopf)
- 1933 Conquistador by Archibald Macleish (Houghton)
- 1932 The Flowering Stone by George Dillon (Viking)
- 1931 Collected Poems by Robert Frost (Holt)
- 1930 Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken (Scribner)
- 1929 John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
- 1928 Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
- 1927 Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer (Knopf)
- 1926 What's O'Clock by the late Amy Lowell (Houghton)
- 1925 The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
- 1924 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost (Holt)
- 1923 The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922.
- 1923 A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper)
- 1922 Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
- 1919 Corn Huskers by Carl Sandburg
- 1919 Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer
- 1918 Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
Pulitzer prize winners are announced in late May for the current year.