Pulitzer Prize Winners for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music. The prizes, administered by Columbia University, bestow on winners both literary prestige and a cash prize.

For years not listed, no award was made.

1918

Love Songs, Sara Teasdale

1919

Old Road to Paradise, Margaret Widdemer; Corn Huskers, Carl Sandburg

1922

Collected Poems, Edwin Arlington Robinson

1923

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; eight sonnets in American Poetry, 1922, A Miscellany, Edna St. Vincent Millay

1924

New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, Robert Frost

1925

The Man Who Died Twice, Edwin Arlington
Robinson

1926

What's O'Clock, Amy Lowell

1927

Fiddler's Farewell, Leonora Speyer

1928

Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson

1929

John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benet

1930

Selected Poems, Conrad Aiken

1931

Collected Poems, Robert Frost

1932

The Flowering Stone, George Dillon

1933

Conquistador, Archibald MacLeish

1934

Collected Verse, Robert Hillyer

1935

Bright Ambush, Audrey Wurdemann

1936

Strange Holiness, Robert P. T. Coffin

1937

A Further Range, Robert Frost

1938

Cold Morning Sky, Marya Zaturenska

1939

Selected Poems, John Gould Fletcher

1940

Collected Poems, Mark Van Doren

1941

Sunderland Capture, Leonard Bacon

1942

The Dust Which Is God, William Rose Benet

1943

A Witness Tree, Robert Frost

1944

Western Star, Stephen Vincent Benet

1945

V-Letter and Other Poems, Karl Shapiro

1947

Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell

1948

The Age of Anxiety, W. H. Auden

1949

Terror and Decorum, Peter Viereck

1950

Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks

1951

Complete Poems, Carl Sandburg

1952

Collected Poems, Marianne Moore

1953

Collected Poems, 1917–1952, ArchibaldMacLeish

1954

The Waking, Theodore Roethke

1955

Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens

1956

Poems—North & South, Elizabeth Bishop

1957

Things of This World, Richard Wilbur

1958

Promises: Poems, 1954–1956, Robert Penn Warren

1959

Selected Poems, 1928–1958, Stanley Kunitz

1960

Heart's Needle, William Snodgrass

1961

Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades, Phyllis McGinley

1962

Poems, Alan Dugan

1963

Pictures From Breughel, William Carlos
Williams

1964

At the End of the Open Road, Louis Simpson

1965

77 Dream Songs, John Berryman

1966

Selected Poems, Richard Eberhart

1967

Live or Die, Anne Sexton

1968

The Hard Hours, Anthony Hecht

1969

Of Being Numerous, George Oppen

1970

Untitled Subjects, Richard Howard

1971

The Carrier of Ladders, William S. Merwin

1972

Collected Poems, James Wright

1973

Up Country, Maxine Winokur Kumin

1974

The Dolphin, Robert Lowell

1975

Turtle Island, Gary Snyder

1976

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashbery

1977

Divine Comedies, James Merrill

1978

Collected Poems, Howard Nemerov

1979

Now and Then: Poems, 1976–1978, Robert Penn Warren

1980

Selected Poems, Donald Rodney Justice

1981

The Morning of the Poem, James Schuyler

1982

The Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath

1983

Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell

1984

American Primitive, Mary Oliver

1985

Yin, Carolyn Kizer

1986

The Flying Change, Henry Taylor

1987

Thomas and Beulah, Rita Dove

1988

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, William Meredith

1989

New and Collected Poems, Richard Wilbur

1990

The World Doesn't End, Charles Simic

1991

Near Changes, Mona Van Duyn

1992

Selected Poems, James Tate

1993

The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck

1994

Neon Vernacular, Yusef Komunyakaa

1995

Simple Truth, Philip Levine

1996

The Dream of the Unified Field, Jorie Graham

1997

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, Lisel Mueller

1998

Black Zodiac, Charles Wright

1999

Blizzard of One, Mark Strand

2000

Repair, C. K. Williams

2001

Different Hours: Poems, Stephen Dunn

2002

Practical Gods, Carl Dennis

2003

Moy Sand and Gravel, Paul Muldoon

2004

Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright

2005

Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser

2006

Late Wife, Claudia Emerson

2007

Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey

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