Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

1918 Sara Teasdale[?] - Love Songs
1919 Margaret Widdemer[?] - Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg - Corn Huskers
1920 no award given
1921 no award given
1922 Edwin Arlington Robinson - Collected Poems
1923 Edna St. Vincent Millay - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany
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 Browns 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 Wurdemann[?] - Bright Ambush
1936 Robert P. Tristram Coffin[?] - Strange Holiness
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 No award given.
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 Carl Sandburg - Complete Poems
1952 Marianne Moore - Collected Poems
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 Breughel
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 William S. Merwin[?] - The Carrier of Ladders
1972 James Wright - Collected Poems
1973 Maxine 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
1978 Howard Nemerov[?] - Collected Poems
1979 Robert Penn Warren - Now and Then
1980 Donald Justice[?] - Selected Poems
1981 James Schuyler[?] - The Morning of the Poem
1982 Sylvia Plath - The 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[?] - Near Changes
1992 James Tate[?] - Selected Poems
1993 Louise Gluck[?] - The Wild Iris
1994 Yusef Komunyakaa - Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
1995 Philip Levine[?] - The Simple Truth
1996 Jorie Graham[?] - The Dream of the Unified Field
1997 Lisel Mueller[?] - live 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