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