|
Year |
First |
Last |
Work |
Links |
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2010 |
Rae |
Armantrout |
Versed |
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2009 |
W.S. |
Merwin |
The Shadow of Sirius |
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2008 |
Philip |
Schultz |
Failure |
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2008 |
Robert |
Hass |
Time and Materials |
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2007 |
Natasha |
Trethewey |
Native Guard |
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2006 |
Claudia |
Emerson |
Late Wife |
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2005 |
Ted |
Kooser |
Delights & Shadows |
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2004 |
Franz |
Wright |
Walking to Martha's Vineyard |
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2003 |
Paul |
Muldoon |
Moy Sand and Gravel |
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2002 |
Carl |
Dennis |
Practical Gods |
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2001 |
Stephen |
Dunn |
Different Hours |
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2000 |
C.K. |
Williams |
Repair |
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1999 |
Mark |
Strand |
Blizzard of One |
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1998 |
Charles |
Wright |
Black Zodiac |
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1997 |
Lisel |
Mueller |
Alive Together: New and Selected
Poems |
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1996 |
Jorie |
Graham |
The Dream of the Unified Field |
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1995 |
Philip |
Levine |
The Simple Truth |
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1994 |
Yusef |
Komunyakaa |
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected
Poems |
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1993 |
Louise |
Glück |
The Wild Iris |
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1992 |
James |
Tate |
Selected Poems by James Tate |
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1991 |
Mona |
Van Duyn |
Near Changes |
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|
1990 |
Charles |
Simic |
The World Doesn't End |
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1989 |
Richard |
Wilbur |
New and Collected Poems by Richard
Wilbur |
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1988 |
William |
Meredith |
New and Selected Poems by William
Meredith |
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1987 |
Rita |
Dove |
Thomas and Beulah |
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1986 |
Henry S. |
Taylor |
The Flying Change |
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1985 |
Carolyn |
Kizer |
Yin |
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1984 |
Mary |
Oliver |
American Primitive |
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1983 |
Galway |
Kinnell |
Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell |
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1982 |
Sylvia |
Plath |
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath |
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1981 |
James |
Schuyler |
The Morning of the Poem |
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1980 |
Donald |
Justice |
Selected Poems by Donald Justice |
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1979 |
Robert |
Penn Warren |
Now and Then |
|
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1978 |
Howard |
Nemerov |
Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov |
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1977 |
James |
Merrill |
Divine Comedies by James Merrill |
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1976 |
John |
Ashbery |
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
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1975 |
Gary |
Snyder |
Turtle Island |
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1974 |
Robert |
Lowell |
The Dolphin |
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1973 |
Maxine |
Kumin |
Up Country |
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1972 |
James |
Wright |
Collected Poems |
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1971 |
William S. |
Merwin |
The Carrier of Ladders |
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1970 |
Richard |
Howard |
Untitled Subjects |
|
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1969 |
George |
Oppen |
Of Being Numerous |
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1968 |
Anthony |
Hecht |
The Hard Hours |
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1967 |
Anne |
Sexton |
Live or Die |
|
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1966 |
Richard |
Eberhart |
Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart |
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1965 |
John |
Berryman |
77 Dream Songs |
|
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1964 |
Louis |
Simpson |
At The End Of The Open Road |
|
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1963 |
William Carlos |
Williams |
Pictures from Breughel |
|
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1962 |
Alan |
Dugan |
Poems by Alan Dugan |
|
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1961 |
Phyllis |
McGinley |
Times Three: Selected Verse From
Three Decades |
|
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1960 |
W.D. |
Snodgrass |
Heart's Needle |
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1959 |
Stanley |
Kunitz |
Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley
Kunitz |
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1958 |
Robert |
Penn Warren |
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert
Penn Warren |
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1957 |
Richard |
Wilbur |
Things of This World |
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1956 |
Elizabeth |
Bishop |
Poems - North & South |
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1955 |
Wallace |
Stevens |
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens |
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1954 |
Theodore |
Roethke |
The Waking |
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1953 |
Archibald |
MacLeish |
Collected Poems 1917-1952 by
Archibald MacLeish |
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1952 |
Marianne |
Moore |
Collected Poems by Marianne Moore |
|
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1951 |
Carl |
Sandburg |
Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg |
|
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1950 |
Gwendolyn |
Brooks |
Annie Allen |
|
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1949 |
Peter |
Viereck |
Terror and Decorum |
|
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1948 |
W.H. |
Auden |
The Age of Anxiety |
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1947 |
Robert |
Lowell |
Lord Weary's Castle |
|
|
1946 |
No Award |
No Award |
No Award |
- No Award - does anyone know why?
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1945 |
Karl |
Shapiro |
V-Letter and Other Poems |
|
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1944 |
Stephen Vincent |
Benet |
Western Star |
|
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1943 |
Robert |
Frost |
A Witness Tree |
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1942 |
William Rose |
Benet |
The Dust Which Is God |
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1941 |
Leonard |
Bacon |
Sunderland Capture |
|
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1940 |
Mark |
Van Doren |
Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren |
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1939 |
John Gould |
Fletcher |
Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher |
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1938 |
Marya |
Zaturenska |
Cold Morning Sky |
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1937 |
Robert |
Frost |
A Further Range |
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1936 |
Robert P.T. |
Coffin |
Strange Holiness |
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1935 |
Audrey |
Wurdemann |
Bright Ambush |
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1934 |
Robert |
Hillyer |
Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer |
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1933 |
Archibald |
MacLeish |
Conquistador |
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1932 |
George |
Dillon |
The Flowering Stone |
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1931 |
Robert |
Frost |
Collected Poems by Robert Frost |
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1930 |
Conrad |
Aiken |
Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken |
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1929 |
Stephen Vincent |
Benet |
John Browns Body |
|
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1928 |
Edwin Arlington |
Robinson |
Tristram |
|
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1927 |
Leonora |
Speyer |
Fiddler's Farewell |
|
|
1926 |
Amy |
Lowell |
1926: What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell |
|
|
1925 |
Edwin Arlington |
Robinson |
The Man Who Died Twice |
|
|
1924 |
Robert |
Frost |
New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and
Grace Notes by Robert Frost |
|
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1923 |
Edna |
St. Vincent Millay |
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few
Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American
Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent
Millay |
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1922 |
Edwin Arlington |
Robinson |
Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington
Robinson |
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