• Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
• National Book Award in Poetry

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• US Poet Laureates

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Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

• 2007    Native Guard , Natasha Tretheway
• 2006    Late Wife, Claudia Emerson
• 2005    Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser
• 2004    Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright
• 2003    Moy Sand and Gravel, Paul Muldoon
• 2002    Practical Gods, Carl Dennis
• 2001    Different Hours, Stephen Dunn
• 2000    Repair, C. K. Williams
• 1999    Blizzard of One, Mark Strand
• 1998    Black Zodiac, Charles Wright
• 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 Glück
• 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
• 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, Sylvia Plath
• 1981    The Morning of the Poem, James Schuyler
• 1980    Selected Poems, Donald Rodney Justice
• 1979    Now and Then: Poems, 1976–1978, Robert Penn Warren
• 1978    Collected Poems, Howard Nemerov
• 1977    Divine Comedies, James Merrill
• 1976    Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashbery
• 1975    TurtleIsland, Gary Snyder
• 1974    The Dolphin, Robert Lowell
• 1973    Up Country, Maxine Winokur Kumin
• 1972    Collected Poems, James Wright
• 1971    The Carrier of Ladders, W. 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
• 1957    Things of This World, Richard Wilbur
• 1956    Poems—North & South, Elizabeth Bishop
• 1955    Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens
• 1954    The Waking, Theodore Roethke
• 1953    Collected Poems, 1917–1952, Archibald MacLeish
• 1952    Collected Poems, Marianne Moore
• 1951    Complete Poems, Carl Sandburg
• 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
• 1945    V-Letter and Other Poems, Karl Shapiro
• 1944    Western Star, Stephen Vincent Benet
• 1943    A Witness Tree, Robert Frost
• 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, Marya Zaturenska
• 1937    A Further Range, Robert Frost
• 1936    Strange Holiness, Robert P. T. Coffin
• 1935    Bright Ambush, Audrey Wurdemann
• 1934    Collected Verse, Robert Hillyer
• 1933    Conquistador, Archibald MacLeish
• 1932    The Flowering Stone, George Dillon
• 1931    Collected Poems, Robert Frost
• 1930    Selected Poems, Conrad Aiken
• 1929    John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benet
• 1928    Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson
• 1927    Fiddler's Farewell, Leonora Speyer
• 1926    What's O'Clock, Amy Lowell
• 1925    The Man Who Died Twice, Edwin Arlington Robinson
• 1924    New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, Robert Frost
• 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
• 1919    Old Road to Paradise, Margaret Widdemer; Corn Huskers,Carl Sandburg
• 1918    Love Songs, Sara Teasdale

National Book Award in Poetry

• 2006    Splay Anthem , Nathaniel Mackey
• 2005    Migration:  New & Selected Poems, W. S. Merwin
• 2004    Door in the Mountain:  New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, Jean Valentine
• 2003    The Singing, C.K. Williams
• 2002    In the Next Galaxy, Ruth Stone
• 2001   Poems Seven:  New and Complete Poetry, Alan Dugan
• 2000   Blessing the Boats, New and Selected Poems 1988-2000, Lucille Clifton
• 1999    Vice:  New & Selected Poems, Ai
• 1998    This Time:  New and Selected Poems, Gerald Stern
• 1997    Effort at Speech:  New & Selected Poems, William Meridith
• 1996    Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Hayden Carruth
• 1995    Passing Through:  The Later Poems, Stanley Kunitz
• 1994    A Worshipful Company of Fletchers, James Tate
• 1993    Garbage, A.R. Ammons
• 1992    New & Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
• 1991    What Work Is, Philip Levine
• 1983    Country Music:  Selected Early Poems, Charles Wright
• 1983    Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell
• 1982    Life Supports:  New and Collected Poems, William Bronk
• 1981    The Need to Hold Still, Lisel Mueller
• 1980    Ashes,Philip Levine
  
• 1979    Mirabell: Book of Numbers, James Merrill
  
• 1978    The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, Howard Nemerov
  
• 1977    Collected Poems, 1930-1976, Richard Eberhart
  
• 1976    Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashbery
  
• 1975    Presentation Piece, Marilyn Hacker
  
• 1974    Diving into the Wreck:  Poems 1971-1972, Adrienne Rich
  
• 1974    The Fall of America:  Poems of These States, 1965-1971, Allen Ginsberg
  
• 1973    Collected Poems, 1951-1971, A. R. Ammons
  
• 1972    The Collected Works of Frank O’Hara, Frank O’Hara
  
• 1972    Selected Poems, Howard Moss
  
• 1971    To See, To Take, Mona Van Duyn
  
• 1970    The Complete Poems, Elizabeth Bishop
  
• 1969    His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, John Berryman
  
• 1968    The Light Around the Body, Robert Bly
  
• 1967    Nights and Days, James Merrill
  
• 1966    Buckdancer’s Choice:  Poems, James Dickey
  
• 1965    The Far Field, Theodore Roethke
  
• 1964    Selected Poems, John Crowe Ransom
  
• 1963    Traveling Through the Dark,William Stafford
  
• 1962    Poems, Alan Dugan
  
• 1961    The Woman at the Washington Zoo, Randall Jarrell
  
• 1960    Life Studies, Robert Lowell
  
• 1959    Words for the Wind, Theodore Roethke
  
• 1958    Promises:  Poems, 1954-1956, Robert Penn Warren
  
• 1957    Things of This World, Richard Wilbur
  
• 1956    The Shield of Achilles, W. H. Auden
  
• 1955    The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Wallace Stevens
  
• 1954    Collected Poems, Conrad Aiken
  
• 1953    Collected Poems, 1917-1952, Archibald MacLeish
  
• 1952    Collected Poems, Marianne Moore
  
• 1951    The Auroras of Autumn, Wallace Stevens
  
• 1950    Paterson:  Book III and Selected Poems, William Carlos Williams

US Poet Laureates

• Donald Hall (2006-present)
• Ted Kooser (2004-2006)
• Louise Glück (2003-2004)
• Billy Collins (2001-2003)
• Stanley Kunitz (2000-2001)
• Rita Dove (1999-2000)
• Louise Glück (1999-2000)
• W. S. Merwin (1999-2000)
• Robert Pinsky (1997-2000)
• Robert Hass (1995-1997)
• Rita Dove (1993-1995)
• Mona Van Duyn (1992-1993)
• Joseph Brodsky (1991-1992)
• Mark Strand (1990-1991)
• Howard Nemerov (1988-1990)
• Richard Wilbur (1987-1988)
• Robert Penn Warren (1986-1987)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1985-1986)
• Reed Whittemore (1984-1985)
• Robert Fitzgerald (1984-1985)
• Anthony Hecht (1982-1984)
• Maxine Kumin (1981-1982)
• William Meredith (1978-1980)
• Robert Hayden (1976-1978)
• Stanley Kunitz (1974-1976)
• Daniel Hoffman (1973-1974)
• Josephine Jacobsen (1971-1973)
• William Stafford (1970-1971)
• William Jay Smith (1968-1970)
• James Dickey (1966-1968)
• Stephen Spender (1965-1966)
• Reed Whittemore (1964-1965)
• Howard Nemerov (1963-1964)
• Louis Untermeyer (1961-1963)
• Richard Eberhart (1959-1961)
• Robert Frost (1958-1959)
• Randall Jarrell (1956-1958)
• William Carlos Williams (1952)
• Conrad Aiken (1950-1952)
• Elizabeth Bishop (1949-1950)
• Leonie Adams (1948-1949)
• Robert Lowell (1947-1948)
• Karl Shapiro (1946-1947)
• Louise Bogan (1945-1946)
• Robert Penn Warren (1944-1945)
• Allen Tate (1943-1944)
• Joseph Auslander (1937-1941)

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