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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

1918: Love Songs, Sara Teasdale

1919

1922: Collected Poems, Edwin Arlington Robinson

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: New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, Robert Frost

1925: The Man Who Died Twice, Edwin Arlington Robinson

1926: What's O'Clock, Amy Lowell

1927: Fiddler's Farewell, Leonora Speyer

1928: Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson

1929: John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benét

1930: Selected Poems, Conrad Aiken

1931: Collected Poems, Robert Frost

1932: The Flowering Stone, George Dillon

1933: Conquistador, Archibald MacLeish

1934: Collected Verse, Robert Hillyer

1935: Bright Ambush, Audrey Wurdemann

1936: Strange Holiness, Robert P. T. Coffin

1937: A Further Range, Robert Frost

1938: Cold Morning Sky, Marya Zaturenska

1939: Selected Poems, John Gould Fletcher

1940: Collected Poems, Mark Van Doren

1941: Sunderland Capture, Leonard Bacon

1942: The Dust Which Is God, William Rose Benét

1943: A Witness Tree, Robert Frost

1944: Western Star, Stephen Vincent Benét

1945: V-Letter and Other Poems, Karl Shapiro

1947: Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell

1948: The Age of Anxiety, W. H. Auden

1949: Terror and Decorum, Peter Viereck

1950: Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks

1951: Complete Poems, Carl Sandburg

1952: Collected Poems, Marianne Moore

1953: Collected Poems, 1917–1952, Archibald MacLeish

1954: The Waking, Theodore Roethke

1955: Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens

1956: Poems—North & South, Elizabeth Bishop

1957: Things of This World, Richard Wilbur

1958: Promises: Poems, 1954–1956, Robert Penn Warren

1959: Selected Poems, 1928–1958, Stanley Kunitz

1960: Heart's Needle, William Snodgrass

1961: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades, Phyllis McGinley

1962: Poems, Alan Dugan

1963: Pictures From Breughel, William Carlos
Williams

1964: At the End of the Open Road, Louis Simpson

1965: 77 Dream Songs, John Berryman

1966: Selected Poems, Richard Eberhart

1967: Live or Die, Anne Sexton

1968: The Hard Hours, Anthony Hecht

1969: Of Being Numerous, George Oppen

1970: Untitled Subjects, Richard Howard

1971: The Carrier of Ladders, William S. Merwin

1972: Collected Poems, James Wright

1973: Up Country, Maxine Winokur Kumin

1974: The Dolphin, Robert Lowell

1975: Turtle Island, Gary Snyder

1976: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashbery

1977: Divine Comedies, James Merrill

1978: Collected Poems, Howard Nemerov

1979: Now and Then: Poems, 1976–1978, Robert Penn Warren

1980: Selected Poems, Donald Rodney Justice

1981: The Morning of the Poem, James Schuyler

1982: The Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath

1983: Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell

1984: American Primitive, Mary Oliver

1985: Yin, Carolyn Kizer

1986: The Flying Change, Henry Taylor

1987: Thomas and Beulah, Rita Dove

1988: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, William Meredith

1989: New and Collected Poems, Richard Wilbur

1990: The World Doesn't End, Charles Simic

1991: Near Changes, Mona Van Duyn

1992: Selected Poems, James Tate

1993: The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck

1994: Neon Vernacular, Yusef Komunyakaa

1995: Simple Truth, Philip Levine

1996: The Dream of the Unified Field, Jorie Graham

1997: Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, Lisel Mueller

1998: Black Zodiac, Charles Wright

1999: Blizzard of One, Mark Strand

2000: Repair, C. K. Williams

2001: Different Hours, Stephen Dunn

2002: Practical Gods, Carl Dennis

2003: Moy Sand and Gravel, Paul Muldoon

2004: Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright

2005: Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser

2006: Late Wife, Claudia Emerson

2007: Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey

2008: Time and Materials, Robert Hass; Failure, Philip Schultz

2009: The Shadow of Sirius, W. S. Merwin

2010: Versed, Rae Armantrout

2011: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Kay Ryan

2012: Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith

1. The poetry prize was established in 1922. The 1918 and 1919 awards were made from gifts provided by the Poetry Society.

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