Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.

1922: Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1923: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay
1924: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost
1925: The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1926: What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell
1927: Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
1928: Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1929: John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet
1930: Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken
1931: Collected Poems by Robert Frost
1932: The Flowering Stone by George Dillon
1933: Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish
1934: Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer
1935: Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann
1936: Strange Holiness by Robert P.T. Coffin
1937: A Further Range by Robert Frost
1938: Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska
1939: Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher
1940: Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren
1941: Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon
1942: The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet
1943: A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
1944: Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet
1945: V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro
1946: no award given
1947: Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
1948: The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
1949: Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
1950: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
1951: Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
1952: Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
1953: Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1954: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
1955: Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
1956: Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop
1957: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
1958: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
1959: Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
1960: Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
1961: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
1962: Poems by Alan Dugan
1963: Pictures from Breughel by William Carlos Williams
1964: At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson
1965: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
1966: Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart
1967: Live or Die by Anne Sexton
1968: The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
1969: Of Being Numerous by George Oppen
1970: Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
1971: The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin
1972: Collected Poems by James Wright
1973: Up Country by Maxine Kumin
1974: The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
1975: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
1976: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1977: Divine Comedies by James Merrill
1978: Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
1979: Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
1980: Selected Poems by Donald Justice
1981: The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
1982: The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
1983: Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
1984: American Primitive by Mary Oliver
1985: Yin by Carolyn Kizer
1986: The Flying Change by Henry Taylor
1987: Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
1988: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
1989: New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
1990: The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
1991: Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
1992: Selected Poems by James Tate
1993: The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
1994: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
1995: The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
1996: The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham
1997: Live Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
1998: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
1999: Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
2000: Repair by C.K. Williams
2001: Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
2002: Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
2003: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
2004: Walking to Martha's Vineyard (ISBN 0375415181) by Franz Wright

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