Pulitzer Prize 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.

Winners

 1920s

• 1922: Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

• 1923: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay

• 1924: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost

• 1925: The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson

• 1926: What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell

• 1927: Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer

• 1928: Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson

• 1929: John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benét

 1930s

• 1930: Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

• 1931: Collected Poems by Robert Frost

• 1932: The Flowering Stone by George Dillon

• 1933: Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish

• 1934: Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer

• 1935: Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann

• 1936: Strange Holiness by Robert P.T. Coffin

• 1937: A Further Range by Robert Frost

• 1938: Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska

• 1939: Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher

 1940s

• 1940: Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren

• 1941: Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon

• 1942: The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet

• 1943: A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

• 1944: Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét

• 1945: V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

• 1946: no award given

• 1947: Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell

• 1948: The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden

• 1949: Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck

 1950s

• 1950: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

• 1951: Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg

• 1952: Collected Poems by Marianne Moore

• 1953: Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish

• 1954: The Waking by Theodore Roethke

• 1955: Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

• 1956: Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop

• 1957: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur

• 1958: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren

• 1959: Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz

 1960s

• 1960: Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

• 1961: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley

• 1962: Poems by Alan Dugan

• 1963: Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams

• 1964: At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson

• 1965: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman

• 1966: Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart

• 1967: Live or Die by Anne Sexton

• 1968: The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht

• 1969: Of Being Numerous by George Oppen

 1970s

• 1970: Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard

• 1971: The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin

• 1972: Collected Poems by James Wright

• 1973: Up Country by Maxine Kumin

• 1974: The Dolphin by Robert Lowell

• 1975: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

• 1976: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

• 1977: Divine Comedies by James Merrill

• 1978: Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov

• 1979: Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren

 1980s

• 1980: Selected Poems by Donald Justice

• 1981: The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler

• 1982: The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath

• 1983: Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell

• 1984: American Primitive by Mary Oliver

• 1985: Yin by Carolyn Kizer

• 1986: The Flying Change by Henry S. Taylor

• 1987: Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove

• 1988: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith

• 1989: New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur

 1990s

• 1990: The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic

• 1991: Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn

• 1992: Selected Poems by James Tate

• 1993: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

• 1994: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

• 1995: The Simple Truth by Philip Levine

• 1996: The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham

• 1997: Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller

• 1998: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright

• 1999: Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

 2000s

• 2000: Repair by C. K. Williams

• 2001: Different Hours by Stephen Dunn

• 2002: Practical Gods by Carl Dennis

• 2003: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon

• 2004: Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright

• 2005: Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser

• 2006: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson

• 2007: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

• 2008: Time and Materials by Robert Hass and Failure by Philip Schultz