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For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
2017 (/prize-winners-by-year/2017)
Olio, by Tyehimba Jess (Wave Books) (/winners/tyehimba-jess)
For a distinctive work that melds performance art with the deeper art of poetry to explore collective memory and
challenge contemporary notions of race and identity.
FINALISTS:
Collected Poems: 1950-2012, by the late Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton) (/ nalists/late-adrienne-rich)
XX, by Campbell McGrath (Ecco/HarperCollins) (/ nalists/campbell-mcgrath)
2016 (/prize-winners-by-year/2016)
Ozone Journal, by Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press) (/winners/peter-balakian)
Poems that bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.
FINALISTS:
2015 (/prize-winners-by-year/2015)
2014 (/prize-winners-by-year/2014)
3 Sections, by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press) (/winners/vijay-seshadri)
A compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns
witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless.
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2013 (/prize-winners-by-year/2013)
Stag's Leap, by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf ) (/winners/sharon-olds)
A book of un inching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.
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2012 (/prize-winners-by-year/2012)
Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press) (/winners/tracy-k-smith)
A collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and
pain.
FINALISTS:
Core Samples from the World, by Forrest Gander (New Directions) (/ nalists/forrest-gander)
How Long, by Ron Padgett (Co ee House Press) (/ nalists/ron-padgett)
2011 (/prize-winners-by-year/2011)
e Best of It: New and Selected Poems, by Kay Ryan (Grove/Atlantic) (/winners/kay-ryan)
A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.
FINALISTS:
2010 (/prize-winners-by-year/2010)
Versed, by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press) (/winners/rae-armantrout)
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, o ering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in
the mind long after the rst reading.
FINALISTS:
2009 (/prize-winners-by-year/2009)
e Shadow of Sirius, by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) (/winners/ws-merwin)
A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory.
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FINALISTS:
Watching the Spring Festival, by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (/ nalists/frank-bidart-1)
What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems, by Ruth Stone (Copper Canyon Press) (/ nalists/ruth-stone)
2008 (/prize-winners-by-year/2008)
Failure, by Philip Schultz (Harcourt) (/winners/philip-schultz)
Time and Materials, by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) (/winners/robert-hass)
FINALISTS:
Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006, by Ellen Bryant Voigt (W.W. Norton) (/ nalists/ellen-bryant-voigt)
2007 (/prize-winners-by-year/2007)
Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mi in) (/winners/natasha-trethewey)
FINALISTS:
Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004, by David Wojahn (University of Pittsburgh Press) (/ nalists/david-
wojahn)
e Republic of Poetry, by Martin Espada (W.W. Norton) (/ nalists/martin-espada)
2006 (/prize-winners-by-year/2006)
Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press) (/winners/claudia-emerson)
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2005 (/prize-winners-by-year/2005)
Delights & Shadows, by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press) (/winners/ted-kooser)
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2004 (/prize-winners-by-year/2004)
Walking to Martha's Vineyard, by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf ) (/winners/franz-wright)
FINALISTS:
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2003 (/prize-winners-by-year/2003)
Moy Sand and Gravel, by Paul Muldoon (Farrar) (/winners/paul-muldoon)
FINALISTS:
2002 (/prize-winners-by-year/2002)
Practical Gods, by Carl Dennis (Penguin Books) (/winners/carl-dennis)
FINALISTS:
2001 (/prize-winners-by-year/2001)
Di erent Hours, by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company) (/winners/stephen-dunn)
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2000 (/prize-winners-by-year/2000)
Repair, by C.K. Williams (Farrar) (/winners/ck-williams)
FINALISTS:
Elegy for the Southern Drawl, by Rodney Jones (Houghton Mi in) (/ nalists/rodney-jones)
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998, by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton) (/ nalists/adrienne-rich-1)
1999 (/prize-winners-by-year/1999)
Blizzard of One, by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf ) (/winners/mark-strand)
FINALISTS:
1998 (/prize-winners-by-year/1998)
Black Zodiac, by Charles Wright (Farrar) (/winners/charles-wright)
FINALISTS:
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1997 (/prize-winners-by-year/1997)
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
(/winners/lisel-mueller)
FINALISTS:
1996 (/prize-winners-by-year/1996)
e Dream of the Uni ed Field, by Jorie Graham (e Ecco Press) (/winners/jorie-graham)
FINALISTS:
1995 (/prize-winners-by-year/1995)
e Simple Truth, by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf ) (/winners/philip-levine)
FINALISTS:
1994 (/prize-winners-by-year/1994)
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University
Press/University Press of New England) (/winners/yusef-komunyakaa)
FINALISTS:
Bright Existence, by Brenda Hillman (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England) (/ nalists/brenda-hillman)
e Metamorphoses of Ovid, by Allen Mandelbaum (Harcourt Brace & Company) (/ nalists/allen-mandelbaum)
1993 (/prize-winners-by-year/1993)
e Wild Iris, by Louise Glck (e Ecco Press) (/winners/louise-gluck)
FINALISTS:
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1992 (/prize-winners-by-year/1992)
Selected Poems, by James Tate (Wesleyan University Press) (/winners/james-tate)
FINALISTS:
An Atlas of the Di cult World, by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton & Company) (/ nalists/adrienne-rich-0)
Selected Poems, by Robert Creeley (University of California Press) (/ nalists/robert-creeley)
1991 (/prize-winners-by-year/1991)
Near Changes, by Mona Van Duyn (Alfred A. Knopf ) (/winners/mona-van-duyn)
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1990 (/prize-winners-by-year/1990)
e World Doesn't End, by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) (/winners/charles-simic)
FINALISTS:
Selected and Last Poems, by Paul Zweig (Wesleyan University Press) (/ nalists/paul-zweig)
Time's Power, by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton & Company) (/ nalists/adrienne-rich)
1989 (/prize-winners-by-year/1989)
New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) (/winners/richard-wilbur-
0)
FINALISTS:
1988 (/prize-winners-by-year/1988)
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf ) (/winners/william-
meredith)
FINALISTS:
1987 (/prize-winners-by-year/1987)
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1986 (/prize-winners-by-year/1986)
e Flying Change, by Henry Taylor (Louisiana State University Press) (/winners/henry-taylor)
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1985 (/prize-winners-by-year/1985)
Yin, by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions) (/winners/carolyn-kizer)
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1984 (/prize-winners-by-year/1984)
American Primitive, by Mary Oliver (Atlantic/Little) (/winners/mary-oliver)
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1983 (/prize-winners-by-year/1983)
Selected Poems, by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mi in) (/winners/galway-kinnell)
FINALISTS:
Country Music, Selected Early Poems, by Charles Wright (Wesleyan University Press) (/ nalists/charles-wright-0)
Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982, by Jack Gilbert (Knopf ) (/ nalists/jack-gilbert)
1982 (/prize-winners-by-year/1982)
e Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath (Harper & Row) (/winners/sylvia-plath)
FINALISTS:
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1981 (/prize-winners-by-year/1981)
e Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler (Farrar) (/winners/james-schuyler)
FINALISTS:
1980 (/prize-winners-by-year/1980)
Selected Poems, by Donald Justice (Atheneum) (/winners/donald-justice)
FINALISTS:
1979 (/prize-winners-by-year/1979)
Now and en, by Robert Penn Warren (Random) (/winners/robert-penn-warren-1)
1978 (/prize-winners-by-year/1978)
Collected Poems, by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago) (/winners/howard-nemerov)
1977 (/prize-winners-by-year/1977)
Divine Comedies, by James Merrill (Atheneum) (/winners/james-merrill)
1976 (/prize-winners-by-year/1976)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery (Viking) (/winners/john-ashbery)
1975 (/prize-winners-by-year/1975)
Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder (New Directions) (/winners/gary-snyder)
1974 (/prize-winners-by-year/1974)
e Dolphin, by Robert Lowell (Farrar) (/winners/robert-lowell-0)
1973 (/prize-winners-by-year/1973)
Up Country, by Maxine Kumin (Harper) (/winners/maxine-kumin)
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1972 (/prize-winners-by-year/1972)
Collected Poems, by James Wright (Wesleyan Univ. Press) (/winners/james-wright)
1971 (/prize-winners-by-year/1971)
e Carrier of Ladders, by William S. Merwin (Atheneum) (/winners/william-s-merwin)
1970 (/prize-winners-by-year/1970)
Untitled Subjects, by Richard Howard (Atheneum) (/winners/richard-howard)
1969 (/prize-winners-by-year/1969)
Of Being Numerous, by George Oppen (New Directions) (/winners/george-oppen)
1968 (/prize-winners-by-year/1968)
e Hard Hours, by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum) (/winners/anthony-hecht)
1967 (/prize-winners-by-year/1967)
Live or Die, by Anne Sexton (Houghton) (/winners/anne-sexton)
1966 (/prize-winners-by-year/1966)
Selected Poems, by Richard Eberhart (New Directions) (/winners/richard-eberhart)
1965 (/prize-winners-by-year/1965)
77 Dream Songs, by John Berryman (Farrar) (/winners/john-berryman)
1964 (/prize-winners-by-year/1964)
At e End Of e Open Road, by Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press) (/winners/louis-simpson)
1963 (/prize-winners-by-year/1963)
Pictures from Brueghel, by William Carlos Williams (New Directions) (/winners/william-carlos-
williams)
1962 (/prize-winners-by-year/1962)
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1961 (/prize-winners-by-year/1961)
Times ree: Selected Verse From ree Decades, by Phyllis McGinley (Viking) (/winners/phyllis-
mcginley)
1960 (/prize-winners-by-year/1960)
Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass (Knopf ) (/winners/w-d-snodgrass)
1959 (/prize-winners-by-year/1959)
Selected Poems 1928-1958, by Stanley Kunitz (Little) (/winners/stanley-kunitz)
1958 (/prize-winners-by-year/1958)
Promises: Poems 1954-1956, by Robert Penn Warren (Random) (/winners/robert-penn-warren-0)
1957 (/prize-winners-by-year/1957)
ings of is World, by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt) (/winners/richard-wilbur)
1956 (/prize-winners-by-year/1956)
Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring, by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton) (/winners/elizabeth-bishop)
1955 (/prize-winners-by-year/1955)
Collected Poems, by Wallace Stevens (Knopf ) (/winners/wallace-stevens)
1954 (/prize-winners-by-year/1954)
e Waking, by eodore Roethke (Doubleday) (/winners/theodore-roethke)
1953 (/prize-winners-by-year/1953)
Collected Poems 1917-1952, by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton) (/winners/archibald-macleish-0)
1952 (/prize-winners-by-year/1952)
Collected Poems, by Marianne Moore (Macmillan) (/winners/marianne-moore)
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1951 (/prize-winners-by-year/1951)
Complete Poems, by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt) (/winners/carl-sandburg-1)
1950 (/prize-winners-by-year/1950)
Annie Allen, by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper) (/winners/gwendolyn-brooks)
1949 (/prize-winners-by-year/1949)
Terror and Decorum, by Peter Viereck (Scribner) (/winners/peter-viereck)
1948 (/prize-winners-by-year/1948)
e Age of Anxiety, by W. H. Auden (Random) (/winners/w-h-auden)
1947 (/prize-winners-by-year/1947)
Lord Weary's Castle, by Robert Lowell (Harcourt) (/winners/robert-lowell)
1945 (/prize-winners-by-year/1945)
V-Letter and Other Poems, by Karl Shapiro (Reynal) (/winners/karl-shapiro)
1944 (/prize-winners-by-year/1944)
Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar) (/winners/stephen-vincent-benet-0)
1943 (/prize-winners-by-year/1943)
A Witness Tree, by Robert Frost (Holt) (/winners/robert-frost-2)
1942 (/prize-winners-by-year/1942)
e Dust Which Is God, by William Rose Benet (Dodd) (/winners/william-rose-benet)
1941 (/prize-winners-by-year/1941)
Sunderland Capture, by Leonard Bacon (Harper) (/winners/leonard-bacon)
1940 (/prize-winners-by-year/1940)
Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren (Holt) (/winners/mark-van-doren)
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1939 (/prize-winners-by-year/1939)
Selected Poems, by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar) (/winners/john-gould- etcher)
1938 (/prize-winners-by-year/1938)
1937 (/prize-winners-by-year/1937)
A Further Range, by Robert Frost (Holt) (/winners/robert-frost-1)
1936 (/prize-winners-by-year/1936)
Strange Holiness, by Robert P. Tristram Co n (Macmillan) (/winners/robert-p-tristram-co n)
1935 (/prize-winners-by-year/1935)
Bright Ambush, by Audrey Wurdemann (John Day) (/winners/audrey-wurdemann)
1934 (/prize-winners-by-year/1934)
Collected Verse, by Robert Hillyer (Knopf ) (/winners/robert-hillyer)
1933 (/prize-winners-by-year/1933)
Conquistador, by Archibald Macleish (Houghton) (/winners/archibald-macleish)
1932 (/prize-winners-by-year/1932)
e Flowering Stone, by George Dillon (Viking) (/winners/george-dillon)
1931 (/prize-winners-by-year/1931)
Collected Poems, by Robert Frost (Holt) (/winners/robert-frost-0)
1930 (/prize-winners-by-year/1930)
Selected Poems, by Conrad Aiken (Scribner) (/winners/conrad-aiken)
1929 (/prize-winners-by-year/1929)
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1928 (/prize-winners-by-year/1928)
Tristram, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan) (/winners/edwin-arlington-robinson-1)
1927 (/prize-winners-by-year/1927)
Fiddler's Farewell, by Leonora Speyer (Knopf ) (/winners/leonora-speyer)
1926 (/prize-winners-by-year/1926)
What's O'Clock, by Amy Lowell (Houghton) (/winners/amy-lowell)
1925 (/prize-winners-by-year/1925)
e Man Who Died Twice, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan) (/winners/edwin-arlington-
robinson-0)
1924 (/prize-winners-by-year/1924)
New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, by Robert Frost (Holt) (/winners/robert-frost)
1923 (/prize-winners-by-year/1923)
e Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from istles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A
Miscellany, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper) (/winners/edna-st-vincent-millay)
1922 (/prize-winners-by-year/1922)
Collected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan) (/winners/edwin-arlington-robinson)
1919 (/prize-winners-by-year/1919)
Corn Huskers, by Carl Sandburg (/winners/carl-sandburg)
is award was made possible by a special grant from e Poetry Society.
Old Road to Paradise, by Margaret Widdemer (/winners/margaret-widdemer)
is award was made possible by a special grant from e Poetry Society.
1918 (/prize-winners-by-year/1918)
Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale (/winners/sara-teasdale)
is award was made possible by a special grant from e Poetry Society.
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B I O G R A P H Y O R A U T O B I O G R A P H Y ( / P R I Z E - W I N N E R S - B Y- C AT E G O R Y / 2 2 2 )
G E N E R A L N O N F I C T I O N ( / P R I Z E - W I N N E R S - B Y- C AT E G O R Y / 2 2 3 )
2017 e Pulitzer Prizes Columbia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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