Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1922-2005

Year Author (Dates) Prize Work
2005 Ted Kooser (1939- ) Delights & Shadows (2004)
2004 Franz Wright (1953- ) Walking to Martha's Vineyard (2003)
2003 Paul Muldoon (1951- ) Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)
2002 Carl Dennis (1939- ) Practical Gods (2001)
2001 Stephen Dunn (1939- ) Different Hours: Poems (2000)
     
2000 C. K. Williams (1936- ) Repair (1999)
1999 Mark Strand (1934- ) Blizzard of One (1998)
1998 Charles Wright (1935- ) Black Zodiac (1997)
1997 Lisel Mueller (1924- ) Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (1996)
1996 Jorie Graham (1951- ) The Dream of the Unified Field (1995)
1995 Philip Levine (1928- ) Simple Truth (1994)
1994 Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) Neon Vernacular (1993)
1993 Louise Glück (1943- ) The Wild Iris (1992)
1992 James Tate (1943- ) Selected Poems (1991)
1991 Mona Van Dyun (1921- ) Near Changes (1990)
     
1990 Charles Simic (1938- ) The World Doesn't End (1989)
1989 Richard Wilbur (1921- ) New and Collected Poems (1988)
1988 William Meredith (1919- ) Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (1987)
1987 Rita Dove (1952- ) Thomas and Beulah (1986)
1986 Henry Taylor (1942- ) The Flying Change (1985)
1985 Carolyn Kizer (1925- ) Yin (1984)
1984 Mary Oliver (1935- ) American Primitive (1983)
1983 Galway Kinnell (1927- ) Selected Poems (1982)
1982 Sylvia Plath* (1932-1963) The Collected Poems (1981)
1981 James Schuyler (1923-1991) The Morning of the Poem (1980)
     
1980 Donald Justice (1925- ) Selected Poems (1979)
1979 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Now and Then (1978)
1978 Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) Collected Poems (1977)
1977 James Merrill (1926-1995) Divine Comedies (1976)
1976 John Ashbery (1927- ) Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
1975 Gary Snyder (1930- ) Turtle Island (1974)
1974 Robert Lowell (1917-1977) The Dolphins (1973)
1973 Maxine Kumin (1925- ) Up Country (1972)
1972 James Wright (1927-1980) Collected Poems (1971)
1971 William S. Merwin (1927- ) The Carrier of Ladders (1970)
     
1970 Richard Howard (1929- ) Untitled Subjects (1969)
1969 George Oppen (1908-1984) Of Being Numerous (1968)
1968 Anthony Hecht (1923- ) The Hard Hours (1967)
1967 Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Live or Die (1966)
1966 Richard Eberhart (1904- ) Selected Poems (1965)
1965 John Berryman (1914-1972) 77 Dream Songs (1964)
1964 Louis Simpson (1923- ) At the End of the Open Road (1963)
1963 William Carlos Williams* (1883-1963) Pictures from Breughel (1962)
1962 Alan Dugan (1923- ) Poems (1961)
1961 Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978) Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades (1960)
     
1960 W. D. Snodgrass (1926- ) Heart's Needle (1959)
1959 Stanley Kunitz (1905- ) Selected Poems 1928-1958 (1958)
1958 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 (1957)
1957 Richard Wilbur (1921- ) Things of This World (1956)
1956 Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Poems - North and South (1955)
1955 Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Collected Poems (1954)
1954 Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) The Waking (1953)
1953 Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Collected Poems (1952)
1952 Marianne Moore (1887-1972) Collected Poems (1951)
1951 Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Complete Poems (1950)
     
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) Annie Allen (1949)
1949 Peter Viereck (1916- ) Terror and Decorum (1948)
1948 W. H. Auden (1907-1973) The Age of Anxiety (1947)
1947 Robert Lowell (1917-1977) Lord Weary's Castle (1946)
1946 No Award  
1945 Karl Shapiro (1913- ) V-Letter and Other Poems (1944)
1944 Stephen Vincent Benét* (1898-1943) Western Star (1943)
1943 Robert Frost (1874-1963) A Witness Tree (1942)
1942 William Rose Benét (1886-1950) The Dust Which Is God (1941)
1941 Leonard Bacon (1887-1954) Sunderland Capture (1940)
     
1940 Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) Collected Poems (1939)
1939 John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950) Selected Poems (1938)
1938 Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982) Cold Morning Sky (1937)
1937 Robert Frost (1874-1963) A Further Range (1936)
1936 Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955) Strange Holiness (1935)
1935 Audrey Wurdemann (1911-1960) Bright Ambush (1934)
1934 Robert Hillyer (1895-1961) Collected Verse (1933)
1933 Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Conquistador (1932)
1932 George Dillon (1906-1968) The Flowering Stone (1931)
1931 Robert Frost (1874-1963) Collected Poems (1930)
     
1930 Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) Selected Poems (1929)
1929 Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) John Brown's Body (1928)
1928 Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Tristram (1927)
1927 Leonora Speyer (1872-1956) Fiddler's Farewell (1926)
1926 Amy Lowell* (1874-1925) What's O'Clock (1925)
1925 Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) The Man Who Died Twice (1924)
1924 Robert Frost (1874-1963) New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1923)
1923 Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922, A Miscellany (1922)
1922 Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Collected Poems (1921)
     
1919** Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) Old Road to Paradise (1918)
1919** Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Corn Huskers (1918)
1918** Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) Love Songs (1917)
  *Awarded posthumously. **American Poetry Society Awards (prior to Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established 1922)

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