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Poetry Pulitzers
Poetry Pulitzer Winners 1917-Present
| Date | People | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Sara Teasdale | Love Songs |
| 1919 | Margaret Widdemer | Old Road to Paradise |
| 1920 | Carl Sandburg | Corn Huskers |
| 1922 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Collected Poems |
| 1923 | The Ballad of the Harp Weaver: A few Figs from Thistles; eight sonnets in American Poetry, 1922; A Miscellany | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| 1924 | Robert Frost | New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes |
| 1925 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | The Man Who Died Twice |
| 1926 | Amy Lowell | What's O'Clock |
| 1927 | Leonora Speyer | Fiddler's Farewell |
| 1928 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Tristram |
| 1929 | Stephen Vincent Benet | John's Brown Body |
| 1930 | Conrad Aiken | Selected Poems |
| 1931 | Robert Frost | Collected Poems |
| 1932 | George Dillon | The Flowering Stone |
| 1933 | Archibald MacLeish | Conquistador |
| 1934 | Robert Hillyer | Collected Verse |
| 1935 | Audrey Waurdemann | Bright Ambush |
| 1936 | Robert P. Tristram Coffin | Strange Honliness |
| 1937 | Robert Frost | A Further Range |
| 1938 | Marya Zaturenska | Cold Morning Sky |
| 1939 | John Gould Fletcher | Selected Poems |
| 1940 | Mark Van Doren | Collected Poems |
| 1941 | Leonard Bacon | Sunderland Capture |
| 1942 | William Rose Benet | The Dust Which Is God |
| 1943 | Robert Frost | A Witness Tree |
| 1944 | Stephen Vincent Benet | Western Star |
| 1945 | Karl Shapiro | V-Letter and Other Poems |
| 1946 | blank | blank |
| 1947 | Robert Lowell | Lord Weary's Castle |
| 1948 | W. H. Auden | The Age of Anxiety |
| 1949 | Peter Viereck | Terror and Decorum |
| 1950 | Gwendolyn Brooks | Annie Allen |
| 1951 | Complete Poems | Carl Sandburg |
| 1952 | Collected Poems | Marianne Moore |
| 1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems 1917-1952 |
| 1954 | Theodore Roethke | The Waking |
| 1955 | Wallace Stevens | Collected Poems |
| 1956 | Elizabeth Bishop | Poems North & South |
| 1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of This World |
| 1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems 1954-1956 |
| 1959 | Stanley Kunitz | Selected Poems: 1928-1958 |
| 1960 | W. D. Snodgrass | Heart's Needle |
| 1961 | Phyllis McGinley | Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades |
| 1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems |
| 1963 | William Carlos Williams | Pictures from Brueghel |
| 1964 | Louis Simpson | At the End of the Open Road |
| 1965 | John Berryman | 77 Dream Songs |
| 1966 | Richard Eberhart | Selected Poems |
| 1967 | Anne Sexton | Live or Die |
| 1968 | Anthony Hecht | The Hard Hours |
| 1969 | George Oppen | Of Being Numerous |
| 1970 | Richard Howard | Untitled Subjects |
| 1971 | W. S. Merwin | The Carrier of Ladders |
| 1972 | James Wright | Collected Poems |
| 1973 | Maxine Winokur Kumin | Up Country |
| 1974 | Robert Lowell | The Dolphin |
| 1975 | Gary Snyder | Turtle Island |
| 1976 | John Ashbery | Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| 1977 | James Merrill | Divine Comedies: Poems |
| 1978 | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems |
| 1979 | Robert Penn Warren | Now and Then 1976-78 |
| 1980 | Donald Justice | Selected Poems |
| 1981 | Hames Schuyler | The Morning of the Poem |
| 1982 | Sylvia Plath | Collected Poems |
| 1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems |
| 1984 | Mary Oliver | American Primitive |
| 1985 | Carolyn Kizer | Yin |
| 1986 | Henry Taylor | The Flying Change |
| 1987 | Rita Dove | Thomas and Beulah |
| 1988 | William Meredith | Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems |
| 1989 | Richard Wilbur | New and Collected Poems |
| 1990 | Charles Simic | The World Doesn't End |
| 1991 | Mona Van Duyn | New Changes |
| 1992 | James Tate | Selected Poems |
| 1993 | Louise Gluck | The Wild Iris |
| 1994 | Yusef Komunyakaa | Neon Vernacular |
| 1995 | Philip Levine | The Simple Truth |
| 1996 | Josie Graham | the Dream of the Unified Field |
| 1997 | Lisel Mueller | Alive Together: New and Selected Poems |
| 1998 | Charles Wright | Black Zodiac |
| 1999 | Mark Strand | Blizzard of One |
| 2000 | C. K. Williams | Repair |
| 2001 | Stephen Dunn | Different Hours |
| 2002 | Carl Dennis | Practical Gods |
| 2003 | Paul Muldoon | Moy Sand and Gravel |
| 2004 | Franz Wright | Walking to Martha's Vineyard |
| 2005 | Ted Kooser | Delight and Shadows |
| 2006 | Claudia Emerson | Late Wife |
| 2007 | Natasha Trethewey | Native Guard |
| 2008 | Robert Hass | Time and Materials |
| 2009 | W.S. Merwin | The Shadow of Sirius |
| 2010 | Rae Armantrout | Versed |
| 2011 | Kay Ryan | The Best of It: New and Selected Poems |
| 2012 | Tracy K. Smith | Life on Mars |
| 2013 | Sharon Old's | Stag's Leap |
| 2014 | Vjay Seshadri | 3 Sections |
| 2015 | Gregory Pardlo | Digest |
| 2016 | Peter Balakian | Ozone Journal |
| 2017 | Tyehimba Jess | Olio |
| 2018 | Frank Bidart | Half light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 |
| 2019 | Forrest Gander | Be With |
| 2020 | Jericho Brown | The Tradition |
| 2021 | Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem |
| 2022 | Diane Seuss | frank: poems |