Pulitzer Poetry Prize Winners of the United States of America
Pulitzer Poetry Prize of the United States of America
by J. Zimmerman
Pulitzer Prize Winners.
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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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1989.
New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur.
Also in 1957.
1988.
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William
Meredith.
1987.
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove.
1986.
The Flying Change by Henry Taylor.
1985.
Yin by Carolyn Kizer.
1984.
American Primitive by
Mary Oliver.
1983.
Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell.
1982.
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
1981.
The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler.
1980.
Selected Poems by Donald Rodney Justice.
1979.
Now and Then: Poems 1976 - 1978 by Robert Penn Warren.
Also 1958.
1978.
Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov.
1977.
Divine Comedies by James Merrill.
1976.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery.
1975.
Turtle Island by Gary Snyder.
1974.
The Dolphin by Robert Lowell.
1973.
Up Country by Maxine Winokur Kumin.
1972.
Collected Poems by James Wright.
1971.
The Carrier of Ladders by
W.S. Merwin.
1970.
Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard.
1969.
Of Being Numerous by George Oppen.
1968.
Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht.
1967.
Live or Die by Anne Sexton.
1966.
Selected Poems 1930 - 1965 by Richard Eberhart.
1965.
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman.
[Blog entry.]
1964.
At the End of the Open Road by Louis Simpson.
1963.
Pictures From Brueghel by William Carlos Williams
1962.
Poems by Alan Dugan.
1961.
Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis
McGinley.
1960.
Heart's Needle by William Snodgrass.
1959.
Selected Poems 1928 - 1958 by Stanley Kunitz.
1958.
Promises: Poems 1954 - 1956 by Robert Penn Warren.
Also 1979.
1957.
Things of This World by Richard Wilbur.
Also 1989.
1956.
Poems-North & South by Elizabeth Bishop.
1955.
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens.
1954.
The Waking by Theodore Roethke.
1953.
Collected Poems 1917 - 1952 by
Archibald MacLeish
Also 1933.
1952.
Collected Poems by Marianne Moore.
1951.
Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg.
Also 1919.
1950.
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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1949.
Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
1948.
The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
1947.
Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
1946
V-Letter and Other Poems by
Karl Shapiro.
1944.
Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet.
[Benet also won The Pulitzer Prize in 1929.]
1943.
A Witness Tree by
Robert Frost.
Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four
times: 1943, 1937, 1931, 1924.
1942.
The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet.
1941.
Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon.
1940.
Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren.
1939.
Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher.
1938.
Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska.
1937.
A Further Range by Robert
Frost.
Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four
times: 1943, 1937, 1931, 1924.
1936.
Strange Holiness by Robert P. T. Coffin.
1935.
Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann.
1934.
Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer.
1933
Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish.
[Also in 1953 with Collected Poems 1917-1952.
1932.
The Flowering Stone by George Dillon.
1931.
Collected Poems by Robert
Frost.
Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four
times: 1943, 1937, 1931, 1924.
1930.
Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken.
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1929.
John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Also honored in 1944.
1928.
Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Also honored in 1922.
1927.
Fiddler's Fare Well by Leonora Speyer.
1926.
What's O'clock by Amy Lowell.
1925.
The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Also honored in 1922.
1924.
New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert
Frost Hardcover.
Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four
times: 1943, 1937, 1931, 1924.
1923.
Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St. Vincent
Millay.
1922.
Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1921.
No Award.
1920.
No Award.
1919. Shared by:
Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer.
Corn Huskers
[Blog entry]
by Carl Sandburg. [Sandburg also won in 1951.]
1918.
Love Songs
[Blog entry]
by
Sara Teasdale.
FAQs
The Pulitzer awards are given:
- by Columbia University
- on recommendation by the 18-member Pulitzer board
- under the terms of the will of
Joseph Pulitzer, the newspaper publisher, who died in 1911.
Other Faqs:
- Joseph Pulitzer endowed the journalism school at
Columbia University, and directed that money be set aside for the prizes.
- The first awards were given in 1917.
- The Pulitzer prize for poetry honors a volume of original verse by an American author.
- A poetry-specific juries picks the poetry finalists.
- The winner receives a cash award of $10,000 (in 2006).
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David Lehman is Series Editor
for the annual The Best American Poetry;
a different guest editor each year.
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The Best American Poetry: 2008, Guest Editor Charles Wright.
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The Best American Poetry: 2007, Guest Editor Heather McHugh.
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The Best American Poetry: 2006, Guest Editor Billy Collins.
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The Best American Poetry: 2005, Guest Editor Paul Muldoon.
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The Best American Poetry: 2004 (relatively weak), Guest Editor Lyn Hejinian.
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The Best American Poetry: 2003,
Guest Editor Yusef Komunyakaa.
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Verses of the Poets Laureate: from John Dryden to Andrew Motion,
by Phillis Levin (Editor) and Andrew Motion (Introduction).
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The Best American Poetry: 2002,
Guest Editor Robert Creeley.
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The Best American Poetry: 2001,
Guest Editor Robert Hass.
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The Best American Poetry: 2000,
Guest Editor Rita Dove.
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The Best American Poetry: 1999,
Guest Editor Robert Bly.
- Other Books of Poetry Form.
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