PULITZER PRIZE for POETRY

The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University since 1917.

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Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright

• 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: Poems 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 The Simple Truth Philip Levine
• 1994 Neon vernacular: New & Selected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa
• 1993 The Wild Iris Louise Glück (811.54 GLU)
• 1992 Selected Poems James Tate (811.54 TAT)
• 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 (811.54 MER)
• 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 (811.54 PLA)
• 1981 The Morning of the Poem James Schuyler
• 1980 Selected Poems Donald Justice
• 1979 Now and Then Robert Penn Warren
• 1978 Collected Poems Howard Nemerov
• 1977 Divine Comedies James Merrill
• 1976 Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror John Ashbery (811.54 ASH)
• 1975 Turtle Island Gary Snyder
• 1974 The Dolphin Robert Lowell (811.52 LOW)
• 1973 Up Country Maxine 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 (811.54 SEX)
• 1966 Selected Poems Richard Eberhart
• 1965 77 Dream Songs John Berryman (811.54 BER)
• 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 W.D. 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 (811.5 STE)
• 1954 The Waking Theodore Roethke
• 1953 Collected Poems 1917-1952 Archibald MacLeish (811.5 MCL)
• 1952 Collected Poems Marianne Moore (811.3 MOO)
• 1951 Complete Poems Carl Sandburg (811.52 SAN)
• 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
• 1946 No Award
• 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 Leornard 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. Tristram 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 (811.52 BRO)
• 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 Edna St. Vincent Millay in "American Poetry 1922 A Miscellany"
• 1922 Collected Poems Edwin Arlington Robinson (811.52 ROB)
• 1919 Corn Huskers Carl Sandburg & Old road to Paradise Margaret Widdemer
• 1918 LoveSongs Sara Teasdale