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2005 -
Delights & Shadows
by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The Orchard
by Brigit Pegeen Kelly (BOA
Editions, Ltd.)
Search Party: Collected Poems
by the late William Matthews (Houghton Mifflin
2004 -
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Middle Earth
by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Eyeshot
by Heather McHugh (Wesleyan University Press)
2003 -
Moy Sand & Gravel by Paul
Muldoon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
(Nominated Finalists)
Music Like Dirt by Frank Bidart
(Sarabande Books)
Hazmat by J.D. McClatchy (Alfred
A.Knopf)
2002 -
Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
(Penguin Books)
(Nominated Finalists)
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück
(The ECCO Press/HarperCollins)
The Beforelife by Franz Wright
(Alfred A. Knopf)
2001 -
Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
(W.W. Norton & Company)
(Nominated Finalists)
Pursuit of a Wound by Sydney Lea
(University of Illinois
Press)
The Other Lover by Bruce Smith
(The University of
Chicago Press)
2000 -
Repair by C.K. Williams (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux)
(Nominated Finalists)
Elegy for the Southern Drawl by
Rodney Jones (Houghton Mifflin)
Midnight Salvage: Poems
1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
1999 -
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
(Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Mysteries of Small Houses by
Alice Notley (Penguin Poets)
Going Fast by Frederick Seidel
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1998 -
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
(Nominated Finalists)
Desire by Frank Bidart (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux)
The Vigil by C.K. Williams
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1997 -
Alive Together: New & Selected
Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The Figured Wheel by Robert
Pinsky (Farrar Straus Giroux)
The Willow Grove by Laurie Sheck
(Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 -
The Dream of the Unified Field
by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
New & Selected Poems by Donald
Justice (Alfred A. Knopf)
Chickamauga by Charles Wright
(Farrar Straus & Giroux)
1995 -
The Simple Truth by Philip
Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems
1986-1992 by Allen Ginsberg (HarperCollins)
On The Great Atlantic Rainway:
Selected Poems 1950-1988 & One Train by Kenneth Koch (Alfred A.
Knopf)
1994 -
Neon Vernacular: New & Selected
Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press/University
Press of New England)
(Nominated Finalists)
Bright Existence by Brenda
Hillman (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New
England)
The Metamorphoses of Ovid by
translated by Allen Mandelbaum (Harcourt Brace & Company)
1993 -
The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
(The Ecco Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
Hotel Lautreamont by John
Ashbery (Alfred A. Knopf)
Selected Poems 1946-1985 by
James Merrill (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 -
Selected Poems by James Tate (Wesleyan
University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
Selected Poems by Robert Creeley
(University of California
Press)
An Atlas of the Difficult World
by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton & Company)
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1991 -
Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
(Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
The Transparent Man by Anthony
Hecht (Alfred A. Knopf)
Leaving Another Kingdom by
Gerald Stern (Harper & Row)
1990 -
The World Doesn't End by Charles
Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
(Nominated Finalists)
Time's Power by Adrienne Rich
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Selected & Last Poems by the
late Paul Zweig (Wesleyan University Press)
1989 -
New & Collected Poems by Richard
Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
(Nominated Finalists)
The One Day by Donald Hall
(Ticknor & Fields)
The River
of Heaven by Garrett
Hongo (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 -
Partial Accounts: New & Selected
Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Good Woman: Poems & a Memoir
1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton (BOA
Editions)
Flesh & Blood by C.K. Williams
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1987 -
Thomas & Beulah by Rita Dove
(Carnegie-Mellon University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The Selected Poetry of Hayden
Carruth by Hayden Carruth (Macmillan)
Unending Blues by Charles Simic
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1986. -
The Flying Change by Henry
Taylor (Louisiana State University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
Saints & Strangers by Andrew
Hudgins (Houghton Mifflin)
Selected Poems, 1963-1983 by
Charles Simic (George Braziller)
1985 -
Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA
Editions)
(Nominated Finalists)
Ground Work by Robert Duncan (New Directions)
The Other Side of the River by
Charles Wright (Random House)
1984 -
American Primitive by Mary
Oliver (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
(Nominated Finalists)
Weather-Fear: New & Selected
Poems by John Engels (University of Georgia)
Collected Poems, 1930-1982 by
Josephine Miles (University of Illinois)
1983 -
Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
(Houghton Mifflin)
(Nominated Finalists)
Monolithos, Poems, 1962 & 1982
by Jack Gilbert (Knopf)
Country Music, Selected Early
Poems by Charles Wright (Wesleyan University Press)
1982 -
The Collected Poems by the late
Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
(Nominated Finalists)
Dream Flights by Dave Smith
(University of Illinois)
The Southern Cross by Charles
Wright (Random House)
1981 -
The Morning of the Poem by James
Schuyler (Farrar, Straus)
(Nominated Finalists)
The Right Madness on Skye by
Richard Hugo (Norton)
Selected Poems by Mark Strand
(Atheneum)
1980. -
Selected Poems by Donald Justice
(Atheneum)
(Nominated Finalists)
Selected Poems by Richard Hugo
(Norton)
Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith
(University of Illinois)
1979 -
Now & Then by Robert Penn Warren
(Random)
1979 -
Now & Then by Robert Penn Warren
(Random)
1978 -
Collected Poems by Howard
Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)
1977 -
Divine Comedies by James Merrill
(Atheneum
1976 -
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
by John Ashbery (Viking)
1975 -
Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
(New Directions)
1974 -
The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
(Farrar)
1973 -
Up Country by Maxine Kumin
(Harper)
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1972 -
Collected Poems by James Wright
(Wesleyan
Univ. Press)
1971 -
The Carrier of Ladders by
William S. Merwin (Atheneum)
1970 -
Untitled Subjects by Richard
Howard (Atheneum)
1969 -
Of Being Numerous by George
Oppen (New Directions)
1968
- The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum)
1967 -
Live or Die by Anne Sexton
(Houghton)
1966 -
Selected Poems by Richard
Eberhart (New Directions)
1965 -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
(Farrar)
1964 -
At The End Of The Open Road by
Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
1963 -
Pictures from Brueghel
by the late William Carlos Williams (New Directions)
1962 -
Poems by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ.
Press)
1961 -
Times Three: Selected Verse From
Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
1960 -
Heart's Needle by W. D.
Snodgrass (Knopf)
1959 -
Selected Poems 1928-1958 by
Stanley Kunitz (Little)
1958 -
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by
Robert Penn Warren (Random)
1957 -
Things of This World by Richard
Wilbur (Harcourt)
1956 -
Poems - North & South
by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton)
1955 -
Collected Poems
by Wallace Stevens (Knopf)
1954 -
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
(Doubleday)
1953 -
Collected Poems 1917-1952 by
Archibald MacLeish (Houghton)
1952 -
Collected Poems by Marianne
Moore (Macmillan)
1951 -
Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
(Harcourt)
1950 -
Annie Allen
by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper)
1949 -
Terror & Decorum by Peter
Viereck (Scribner)
1948 -
The Age of Anxiety by W. H.
Auden (Random)
1947 -
Lord Weary's Castle by Robert
Lowell (Harcourt)
1945 -
V-Letter & Other Poems by Karl
Shapiro (Reynal)
1944 -
Western Star by the late Stephen
Vincent Benet (Farrar)
1943 -
A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
(Holt)
1942 -
The Dust Which Is God by William
Rose Benet (Dodd)
1941 -
Sunderland
Capture by Leonard Bacon (Harper)
1940 -
Collected Poems by Mark Van
Doren (Holt)
1939 -
Selected Poems by John Gould
Fletcher (Farrar)
1938 -
Cold Morning Sky
by Marya Zaturenska (Macmillan)
1937 -
A Further Range by Robert Frost
(Holt)
1936 -
Strange Holiness by Robert P.
Tristram Coffin (Macmillan
1935 -
Bright Ambush by Audrey
Wurdemann (John Day)
1934 -
Collected Verse by Robert
Hillyer (Knopf)
1933 -
Conquistador by Archibald
Macleish (Houghton)
1932 -
The Flowering Stone by George
Dillon (Viking
1931 -
Collected Poems by Robert Frost
(Holt)
1930 -
Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken
(Scribner)
1929 -
John Browns Body by Stephen
Vincent Benet (Farrar)
1928 -
Tristram by Edwin Arlington
Robinson (Macmillan)
1927 -
Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora
Speyer (Knopf)
1926 -
What's O'Clock by the late Amy
Lowell (Houghton)
1925 -
The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin
Arlington
Robinson (Macmillan)
1924 -
New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes
& Grace Notes by Robert Frost (Holt)
1923 -
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A
Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922.
A Miscellany by Edna St.
Vincent Millay (Harper)
1922 -
Collected Poems by Edwin
Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
1919 -
Carl Sandburg; Corn Huskers
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry
Society.
Margaret Widdemer; Old Road to
Paradise
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry
Society
1918 -
Sara Teasdale; Love Songs
This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry
Society.
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