| The
Pulitzer Prize Winners - Poetry |
 2002 |
Practical Gods Carl Dennis | Paperback |
|
2001
|
Different
Hours by Stephen Dunn | Hardcover |
|
2000 |
Repair:
Poems by C. K. Williams | Hardcover |
|
1999 |
Blizzard
of One Mark Strand Hardcover |
|
1998 |
Black
Zodiac Charles Wright Hardcover |
|
1997 |
Alive
Together: New and Selected Poems Lisel Mueller |
|
1996 |
The
Dream of the Unified Field Jorie Graham |
|
1995 |
Simple
Truth Philip Levine |
|
1994 |
Neon
Vernacular Yusef Komunyakaa |
|
1993 |
The
Wild Iris Louise Gluck |
|
1992 |
Selected
Poems James Tate |
|
1991 |
Near
Changes Mona Van Duyn |
|
1990 |
The
World Doesn't End Charles Simic |
|
1989 |
New
and Collected Poems Richard Wilbur, also won in 1957 |
|
1988 |
Partial
Accounts: New and Selected Poems William Meredith |
|
1987 |
Thomas
and Beulah Rita Dove |
|
1986 |
The
Flying Change Henry Taylor |
|
1985 |
Yin
Carolyn Kizer |
|
1984 |
American
Primitive Mary Oliver |
|
1983 |
Selected
Poems Galway Kinnell |
|
1982 |
The
Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath |
|
1981 |
The
Morning of the Poem James Schuyler |
|
1980 |
Selected
Poems Donald Rodney Justice |
|
1979 |
Robert
Penn Warren Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978, Warren previously
won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 |
|
1978 |
Collected
Poems Howard Nemerov |
|
1977 |
Divine
Comedies James Merrill Out of Print![]() |
|
1976 |
Self-Portrait
in a Convex Mirror John Ashbery |
|
1975 |
Turtle
Island Gary Snyder |
|
1974 |
The
Dolphin Robert Lowell, winner 1947 |
|
1973 |
Up
Country Maxine Winokur Kumin |
|
1972 |
Collected
Poems James Wright |
|
1971 |
The
Carrier of Ladders William S. Merwin |
|
1970 |
Untitled
Subjects Richard Howard |
|
1969 |
Of
Being Numerous George Oppen |
|
1968 |
The
Hard Hours Anthony Hecht |
|
1967 |
Live
or Die Anne Sexton |
|
1966 |
Selected
Poems Richard Eberhart |
|
1965 |
77
Dream Songs John Berryman |
|
1964 |
At
the End of the Open Road Louis Simpson |
|
1963 |
Pictures
From Breughel William Carlos Williams |
|
1962 |
Poems
Alan Dugan |
|
1961 |
Times
Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades Phyllis McGinley |
|
1960 |
Heart's
Needle William Snodgrass |
|
1959 |
Selected
Poems 1928-1958 Stanley Kunitz |
|
1958 |
Promises:
Poems 1954-1956 Robert Penn Warren, Warren won the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry again in 1979 |
|
1957 |
Things
of This World Richard Wilbur, also won in 1989 |
|
1956 |
Poems-North
& South Elizabeth Bishop |
|
1955 |
Collected
Poems Wallace Stevens |
|
1954 |
The
Waking Theodore Roethke |
|
1953 |
Collected
Poems, 1917-1952 Archibald MacLeish MacLeish also won the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry in 1933 |
|
1952 |
Collected
Poems Marianne Moore |
|
1951 |
Complete
Poems by Carl Sandburg, Sandburg shared the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
with Margaret Widdemer in1919 |
|
1950 |
Annie
Allen Gwendolyn Brooks |
|
1949 |
Terror
and Decorum Peter Viereck |
|
1948 |
The
Age of Anxiety W. H. Auden |
|
1947 |
Lord
Weary's Castle Robert Lowell, winner 1974 |
|
1946 |
V-Letter
and Other Poems Karl Shapiro |
|
1944 |
Western
Star Stephen Vincent Benet, previously won The Pulitzer
Prize in 1929 |
|
1943 |
A
Witness Tree by Robert Frost Robert Frost was honored with the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times: 1943, 1937, 1931, 1924 |
|
1942 |
The
Dust Which Is God William Rose Benet |
|
1941 |
Sunderland
Capture Leonard Bacon |
|
1940 |
Collected
Poems Mark Van Doren |
|
1939 |
Selected
Poems John Gould Fletcher |
|
1938 |
Cold
Morning Sky Rarya Zaturenska |
|
1937 |
A
Further Range by Robert Frost (1943, 1937, 1931, 1924) |
|
1936 |
Strange
Holiness Robert P. T. Coffin |
|
1935 |
Bright
Ambush Audrey Wurdemann |
|
1934 |
Collected
Verse Robert Hillyer |
|
1933 |
Conquistador
Archibald MacLeish, honored again in 1953 |
|
1932 |
The
Flowering Stone George Dillon |
|
1931 |
Collected
Poems Robert Frost (1943, 1937, 1931, 1924) |
|
1930 |
Selected
Poems Conrad Aiken |
|
1929 |
John
Brown's Body Stephen Vincent Benet, honored again in 1944 |
|
1928 |
Tristram
Edwin Arlington Robinson (also 1922) |
|
1927 |
Fiddler's
Fare Well Leonora Speyer |
|
1926 |
What's
O'Clock Amy Lowell |
|
1925 |
The
Man Who Died Twice Edwin Arlington Robinson, also honored with
the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1922 |
|
1924 |
New
Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes Robert Frost (1943,
1937, 1931, 1924) |
|
1923 |
The
Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; eight sonnets in American
Poetry, 1922, A Miscellany Edna St. Vincent Millay |
|
1922 |
Collected
Poems Edwin Arlington Robinson, again honored in 1925 |
|
1921 |
No Award |
|
1920 |
No Award |
|
1919 |
Old
Road to Paradise Margaret Widdemer and Corn Huskers
Carl Sandburg, Sandburg won singly in 1951 |
|
1918 |
Love
Songs Sara Teasdale |