Pulitzer Prize in Writing for Poetry

Pulitzer Prize in Writing 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.

YearPoetWritten Work 
2008Philip SchultzFailure 
2008Robert HassTime and Materials 
2007Natasha TretheweyNative Guard 
2006Claudia EmersonLate Wife 
2005Ted KooserDelights & Shadows 
2004Franz WrightWalking to Martha's Vineyard 
2003Paul MuldoonMoy Sand and Gravel 
2002Carl DennisPractical Gods 
2001Stephen DunnDifferent Hours 
2000C. K. WilliamsRepair 
1999Mark StrandBlizzard of One 
1998Charles WrightBlack Zodiac 
1997Lisel MuellerAlive Together: New and Selected Poems 
1996Jorie GrahamThe Dream of the Unified Field 
1995Philip LevineThe Simple Truth 
1994Yusef KomunyakaaNeon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 
1993Louise GluckThe Wild Iris 
1992James TateSelected Poems 
1991Mona Van DuynNear Changes 
1990Charles SimicThe World Doesn't End 
1989Richard WilburNew and Collected Poems 
1988William MeredithPartial Accounts: New and Selected Poems 
1987Rita DoveThomas and Beulah 
1986Henry TaylorThe Flying Change 
1985Carolyn KizerYin 
1984Mary OliverAmerican Primitive 
1983Galway KinnellSelected Poems 
1982Sylvia PlathThe Collected Poems 
1981James SchuylerThe Morning of the Poem 
1980Donald JusticeSelected Poems 
1979Robert Penn WarrenNow and Then 
1978Howard NemerovCollected Poems 
1977James MerrillDivine Comedies 
1976John AshberySelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 
1975Gary SnyderTurtle Island 
1974Robert LowellThe Dolphin 
1973Maxine KuminUp Country 
1972James WrightCollected Poems 
1971William S. MerwinThe Carrier of Ladders 
1970Richard HowardUntitled Subjects 
1969George OppenOf Being Numerous 
1968Anthony HechtThe Hard Hours 
1967Anne SextonLive or Die 
1966Richard EberhartSelected Poems 
1965John Berryman77 Dream Songs 
1964Louis SimpsonAt The End Of The Open Road 
1963William Carlos WilliamsPictures from Brueghel 
1962Alan DuganPoems 
1961Phyllis McGinleyTimes Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades 
1960W. D. SnodgrassHeart's Needle 
1959Stanley KunitzSelected Poems 1928-1958 
1958Robert Penn WarrenPromises: Poems 1954-1956 
1957Richard WilburThings of This World 
1956Elizabeth BishopPoems - North & South 
1955Wallace StevensCollected Poems 
1954Theodore RoethkeThe Waking 
1953Archibald MacLeishCollected Poems 1917-1952 
1952Marianne MooreCollected Poems 
1951Carl SandburgComplete Poems 
1950Gwendolyn BrooksAnnie Allen 
1949Peter ViereckTerror and Decorum 
1948W. H. AudenThe Age of Anxiety 
1947Robert LowellLord Weary's Castle 
1946-- 
1945Karl ShapiroV-Letter and Other Poems 
1944Stephen Vincent BenetWestern Star 
1943Robert FrostA Witness Tree 
1942William Rose BenetThe Dust Which Is God 
1941Leonard BaconSunderland Capture 
1940Mark Van DorenCollected Poems 
1939John Gould FletcherSelected Poems 
1938Marya ZaturenskaCold Morning Sky 
1937Robert FrostA Further Range 
1936Robert P. Tristram CoffinStrange Holiness 
1935Audrey WurdemannBright Ambush 
1934Robert HillyerCollected Verse 
1933Archibald MacleishConquistador 
1932George DillonThe Flowering Stone 
1931Robert FrostCollected Poems 
1930Conrad AikenSelected Poems 
1929Stephen Vincent BenetJohn Browns Body 
1928Edwin Arlington RobinsonTristram 
1927Leonora SpeyerFiddler's Farewell 
1926Amy LowellWhat's O'Clock 
1925Edwin Arlington RobinsonThe Man Who Died Twice 
1924Robert FrostNew Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes 
1923Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany 
1922Edwin Arlington RobinsonCollected Poems 
1919Carl SandburgCorn Huskers 
1919Margaret WiddemerOld Road to Paradise 
1918Sara TeasdaleLove Songs 
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