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| Edwin Arlington Robinson, winner of the first Pulitzer for Poetry, in 1922 |
Finalists have been announced in the Poetry category since 1980. These are indicated with an "F"; winners in the same years are designated with a "W." No award was given in 1946.
You can read more about some of the more recent winners and finalists at the Pulitzer site.
1922: Collected Poems (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
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: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (Robert Frost)
1925: The Man Who Died Twice (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
1926: What's O'Clock (Amy Lowell)
1927: Fiddler's Farewell (Leonora Speyer)
1928: Tristram (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
1929: John Brown's Body (Stephen Vincent Benét)
1930: Selected Poems (Conrad Aiken)
1931: Collected Poems (Robert Frost)
1932: The Flowering Stone (George Dillon)
1933: Conquistador (Archibald MacLeish)
1934: Collected Verse (Robert Hillyer)
1935: Bright Ambush (Audrey Wurdemann)
1936: Strange Holiness (Robert P. T. Coffin)
1937: A Further Range (Robert Frost)
1938: Cold Morning Sky (Marya Zaturenska)
1939: Selected Poems (John Gould Fletcher)
1940: Collected Poems (Mark Van Doren)
1941: Sunderland Capture (Leonard Bacon)
1942: The Dust Which Is God (William Rose Benét)
1943: A Witness Tree (Robert Frost)
1944: Western Star (Stephen Vincent Benét)
1945: V-Letter and Other Poems (Karl Shapiro)
1946: No award given 1947: Lord Weary's Castle (Robert Lowell)
1948: The Age of Anxiety (W. H. Auden)
1949: Terror and Decorum (Peter Viereck)
1950: Annie Allen (Gwendolyn Brooks)
1951: Complete Poems (Carl Sandburg)
1952: Collected Poems (Marianne Moore)
1953: Collected Poems 1917–1952 (Archibald MacLeish)
1954: The Waking (Theodore Roethke)
1955: Collected Poems (Wallace Stevens)
1956: Poems - North & South (Elizabeth Bishop)
1957: Things of This World (Richard Wilbur)
1958: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (Robert Penn Warren)
1959: Selected Poems 1928-1958 (Stanley Kunitz)
1960: Heart's Needle (W. D. Snodgrass)
1961: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades (Phyllis McGinley)
1962: Poems (Alan Dugan)
1963: Pictures from Brueghel (William Carlos Williams)
1964: At The End Of The Open Road (Louis Simpson)
1965: 77 Dream Songs (John Berryman)
1966: Selected Poems (Richard Eberhart)
1967: Live or Die (Anne Sexton)
1968: The Hard Hours (Anthony Hecht)
1969: Of Being Numerous (George Oppen)
1970: Untitled Subjects (Richard Howard)
1971: The Carrier of Ladders (William S. Merwin)
1972: Collected Poems (James Wright)
1973: Up Country (Maxine Kumin)
1974: The Dolphin (Robert Lowell)
1975: Turtle Island (Gary Snyder)
1976: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery)
1977: Divine Comedies (James Merrill)
1978: Collected Poems (Howard Nemerov)
1979: Now and Then (Robert Penn Warren)
1980: (W) Selected Poems (Donald Justice)
1980: (F) Goshawk, Antelope (Dave Smith)
1980: (F) Selected Poems (Richard Hugo)
1981: (W) The Morning of the Poem (James Schuyler)
1981: (F) Selected Poems (Mark Strand)
1981: (F) The Right Madness on Skye (Richard Hugo)
1982: (W) The Collected Poems (Sylvia Plath)
1982: (F) Dream Flights (Dave Smith)
1982: (F) The Southern Cross (Charles Wright)
1983: (W) Selected Poems (Galway Kinnell)
1983: (F) Country Music, Selected Early Poems (Charles Wright)
1983: (F) Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982 (Jack Gilbert)
1984: (W) American Primitive (Mary Oliver)
1984: (F) Collected Poems, 1930-1982 (Josephine Miles)
1984: (F) Weather-Fear: New and Selected Poems (John Engels)
1985: (W) Yin (Carolyn Kizer)
1985: (F) Ground Work (Robert Duncan)
1985: (F) The Other Side of the River (Charles Wright)
1986: (W) The Flying Change (Henry S. Taylor)
1986: (F) Saints and Strangers (Andrew Hudgins)
1986: (F) Selected Poems, 1963-1983 (Charles Simic)
1987: (W) Thomas and Beulah (Rita Dove)
1987: (F) The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth (Hayden Carruth)
1987: (F) Unending Blues (Charles Simic)
1988: (W) Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (William Meredith)
1988: (F) Flesh and Blood (C.K. Williams)
1988: (F) Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems (Lucille Clifton)
1989: (W) New and Collected Poems (Richard Wilbur)
1989: (F) The One Day (Donald Hall)
1989: (F) The River of Heaven (Garrett Hongo)
1990: (W) The World Doesn't End (Charles Simic)
1990: (F) Selected and Last Poems (Paul Zweig)
1990: (F) Time's Power (Adrienne Rich)
1991: (W) Near Changes (Mona Van Duyn)
1991: (F) Leaving Another Kingdom (Gerald Stern)
1991: (F) The Transparent Man (Anthony Hecht)
1992: (W) Selected Poems (James Tate)
1992: (F) An Atlas of the Difficult World (Adrienne Rich)
1992: (F) Selected Poems (Robert Creeley)
1993: (W) The Wild Iris (Louise Glück)
1993: (F) Hotel Lautreamont (John Ashbery)
1993: (F) Selected Poems 1946-1985 (James Merrill)
1994: (W) Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Yusef Komunyakaa)
1994: (F) Bright Existence (Brenda Hillman)
1994: (F) The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated (Allen Mandelbaum)
1995: (W) The Simple Truth (Philip Levine)
1995: (F) Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 (Allen Ginsberg)
1995: (F) On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 and One Train (Kenneth Koch)
1996: (W) The Dream of the Unified Field (Jorie Graham)
1996: (F) Chickamauga (Charles Wright)
1996: (F) New and Selected Poems (Donald Justice)
1997: (W) Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (Lisel Mueller)
1997: (F) The Figured Wheel (Robert Pinsky)
1997: (F) The Willow Grove (Laurie Sheck)
1998: (W) Black Zodiac (Charles Wright)
1998: (F) Desire (Frank Bidart)
1998: (F) The Vigil (C.K. Williams)
1999: (W) Blizzard of One (Mark Strand)
1999: (F) Going Fast (Frederick Seidel)
1999: (F) Mysteries of Small Houses (Alice Notley)
2000: (W) Repair (C. K. Williams)
2000: (F) Elegy for the Southern Drawl (Rodney Jones)
2000: (F) Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (Adrienne Rich)
2001: (W) Different Hours (Stephen Dunn)
2001: (F) Pursuit of a Wound (Sydney Lea)
2001: (F) The Other Lover (Bruce Smith)
2002: (W) Practical Gods (Carl Dennis)
2002: (F) The Beforelife (Franz Wright)
2002: (F) The Seven Ages (Louise Gluck)
2003: (W) Moy Sand and Gravel (Paul Muldoon)
2003: (F) Hazmat (J.D. McClatchy)
2003: (F) Music Like Dirt (Frank Bidart)
2004: (W) Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Franz Wright)
2004: (F) Eyeshot (Heather McHugh)
2004: (F) Middle Earth (Henri Cole)
2005: (W) Delights & Shadows (Ted Kooser)
2005: (F) Search Party: Collected Poems (William Matthews)
2005: (F) The Orchard (Brigit Pegeen Kelly)
2006: (W) Late Wife (Claudia Emerson)
2006: (F) American Sublime (Elizabeth Alexander)
2006: (F) Elegy on Toy Piano (Dean Young)
2007: (W) Native Guard (Natasha Trethewey)
2007: (F) Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004 (David Wojahn)
2007: (F) The Republic of Poetry (Martin Espada)
2008: (W) Failure (Philip Schultz) (two winners)
2008: (W) Time and Materials (Robert Hass) (two winners)
2008: (F) Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006 (Ellen Bryant Voigt)
2009: (W) The Shadow of Sirius (W. S. Merwin)
2009: (F) Watching the Spring Festival (Frank Bidart)
2009: (F) What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems (Ruth Stone)
2010: (W) Versed (Rae Armantrout)
2010: (F) Inseminating the Elephant (Lucia Perillo)
2010: (F) Tryst (Angie Estes)
2011: (W) The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Kay Ryan)
2011: (F) Break the Glass (Jean Valentine)
2011: (F) The Common Man (Maurice Manning)
2012: (W) Life on Mars (Tracy K. Smith)
2012: (F) Core Samples from the World (Forrest Gander)
2012: (F) How Long (Ron Padgett)
2013: (W) Stag's Leap (Sharon Olds)
2013: (F) Collected Poems (Jack Gilbert)
2013: (F) The Abundance of Nothing (Bruce Weigl)
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