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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Sara Teasdale

<< 1918 >>

Established by Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York Globe, through an endowment to Columbia University. The Poetry Award is selected annually for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.

Prize Winners

Winners year-by-year, or publication dates for lists. Click highlighted authors for reference info.

1918:

Sara Teasdale, Love Songs

1919:

Carl Sandburg, Corn Huskers

1919:

Margaret Widdemer, Old Road to Paradise

1922:

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Collected Poems

1923:

Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

1924:

Robert Frost, New Hampshire

1925:

Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice

1926:

Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock

1927:

Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell

1928:

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Tristram

1929:

Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body

1930:

Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems

1931:

Robert Frost, Collected Poems

1932:

George Dillon, The Flowering Stone

1933:

Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador

1934:

Robert Hillyer, Collected Verse

1935:

Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush

1936:

Robert Coffin, Strange Holiness

1937:

Robert Frost, A Further Range

1938:

Marya Zaturenska, Cold Morning Sky

1939:

John Gould Fletcher, Selected Poems

1940:

Mark Van Doren, Collected Poems 1922-1938

1941:

Leonard Bacon, Sunderland Capture

1942:

William Rose Benet, The Dust Which is God

1943:

Robert Frost, A Witness Tree

1944:

Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star

1945:

Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems

1947:

Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle

1948:

W.H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

1949:

Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum

1950:

Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen

1951:

Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems

1952:

Marianne Moore, Collected Poems

1953:

Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems

1954:

Theodore Roethke, The Waking

1955:

Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems

1956:

Elizabeth Bishop, North and South

1957:

Richard Wilbur, Things of This World

1958:

Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems 1954-1956

1959:

Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems 1928-1958

1960:

W.D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle

1961:

Phyllis McGinley, Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades

1962:

Alan Dugan, Poems

1963:

William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Breughel

1964:

Louis Simpson, At The End of the Open Road

1965:

John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs

1966:

Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems

1967:

Anne Sexton, Live or Die

1968:

Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours

1969:

George Oppen, Of Being Numerous

1970:

Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects

1971:

William Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders

1972:

James Wright, Collected Poems

1973:

Maxine Kumin, Up Country

1974:

Robert Lowell, The Dolphin

1975:

Gary Snyder, Turtle Island

1976:

John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

1977:

James Merrill, Divine Comedies

1978:

Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems

1979:

Robert Penn Warren, Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978

1980:

Donald Justice, Selected Poems

1981:

James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem

1982:

Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

1983:

Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems

1984:

Mary Oliver, American Primitive

1985:

Carolyn Kizer, Yin: New Poems

1986:

Henry Taylor, The Flying Change

1987:

Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah

1988:

William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

1989:

Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems

1990:

Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End

1991:

Mona Van Duyn, Near Changes

1992:

James Tate, Selected Poems

1993:

Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris

1994:

Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular

1995:

Philip Levine, The Simple Truth

1996:

Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field

1997:

Lisel Mueller, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

1998:

Charles Wright, Black Zodiac

1999:

Mark Strand, Blizzard of One

2001:

Stephen Dunn, Different Hours

2002:

Carl Dennis, Practical Gods

2003:

Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel

2004:

Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard

2005:

Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows

2006:

Claudia Emerson, Late Wife

2007:

Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard

2008:

Robert Hass, Time and Materials

2008:

Philip Schultz, Failure

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