Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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The Pulitzer Prize in 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.

Winners

2000s

2007: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
2006: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
2005: Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
2004: Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
2003: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
2002: Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
2001: Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
2000: Repair by C. K. Williams

1990s

1999: Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
1998: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
1997: Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
1996: The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham
1995: The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
1994: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
1993: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
1992: Selected Poems by James Tate
1991: Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
1990: The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic

1980s

1989: New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
1988: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
1987: Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
1986: The Flying Change by Henry S. Taylor
1985: Yin by Carolyn Kizer
1984: American Primitive by Mary Oliver
1983: Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
1982: The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
1981: The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
1980: Selected Poems by Donald Justice

1970s

1979: Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
1978: Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
1977: Divine Comedies by James Merrill
1976: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1975: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
1974: The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
1973: Up Country by Maxine Kumin
1972: Collected Poems by James Wright
1971: The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin
1970: Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard

1960s

1969: Of Being Numerous by George Oppen
1968: The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
1967: Live or Die by Anne Sexton
1966: Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart
1965: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
1964: At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson
1963: Pictures from Breughel by William Carlos Williams
1962: Poems by Alan Dugan
1961: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
1960: Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

1950s

1959: Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
1958: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
1957: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
1956: Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop
1955: Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
1954: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
1953: Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1952: Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
1951: Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
1950: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

1940s

1949: Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
1948: The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
1947: Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
1946: no award given
1945: V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro
1944: Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét
1943: A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
1942: The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet
1941: Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon
1940: Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren

1930s

1939: Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher
1938: Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska
1937: A Further Range by Robert Frost
1936: Strange Holiness by Robert P.T. Coffin
1935: Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann
1934: Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer
1933: Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish
1932: The Flowering Stone by George Dillon
1931: Collected Poems by Robert Frost
1930: Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

1920s

1929: John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benét
1928: Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1927: Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
1926: What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell
1925: The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1924: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost
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
1922: Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

See also

External links

Pulitzer Prize - official site

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