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