PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY

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.

Contents

Winners

2000s

1990s

1980s

1970s

1960s

1950s

1940s

1930s

1920s

See also

External links

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

★ American poetry

★ List of poetry awards

★ List of literature awards

★ List of years in poetry

★ List of years in literature

External links

★ Pulitzer Prize - official site