Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry

Sara Teasdale

1918, Love Songs

Margaret Widdemer

1919, Old Road to Paradise

Carl Sandburg

1919, Corn Huskers

Edwin Arlington Robinson

1922, Collected Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay

1923, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; eight sonnets in American Poetry, 1922; A Miscellany

Robert Frost

1924, New Hampshire: A poem with Notes and Grace Notes

Edwin Arlington Robinson

1925, The Man Who Died Twice

Amy Lowell

1926, What's O'Clock

Leonara Speyer

1927, Fiddler's Farewell

Edwin Arlington Robinson

1928, Tristram

Stephen Vincent Benet

1929, John Brown's Body

Conrad Aiken

1930, Selected Poems

Robert Frost

1931, Collected Poems

George Dillon

1932, The Flowering Stone

Archibald MacLeish

1933, Conquistador

Robert Hillyer

1934, Collected Verse

Audrey Wurdemann

1935, Bright Ambush

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

1936, Strange Holiness

Robert Frost

1937, A Further Range

Marya Zaturenska

1938, Cold Morning Sky

John Gould Fletcher

1939, Selected Poems

Mark Van Doren

1940, Collected Poems

Leonard Bacon

1941, Sunderland Capture

William Rose Benet

1942, The Dust Which Is God

Robert Frost

1943, A Witness Tree

Stephen Vincent Benet

1944, Western Star

Karl Shapiro

1945, V-Letter and Other Poems

Robert Lowell

1947, Lord Weary's Castle

W.H. Auden

1948, Age of Anxiety

Peter Viereck

1949, Terror and Decorum

Gwendolyn Brooks

1950, Annie Allen

Carl Sandburg

1951, Complete Poems

Marianne Moore

1952, Collected Poems

Archibald MacLeish

1953, Collected Poems, 1917-1952

Theodore Roethke

1954, The Waking

Wallace Stevens

1955, Collected Poems

Elizabeth Bishop

1956, Poems-North & South

Richard Wilbur

1957, Things of This World

Robert Penn Warren

1958, Promises: Poems 1954-1956

Stanley Kunitz

1959, Selected Poems 1928-1958

W.D. Snodgrass

1960, Heart's Needle

Phyllis McGinley

1961, Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades

Alan Dugan

1962, Poems

William Carlos Williams

1963, Pictures from Bueghel

Louis Simpson

1964, At the End of the Open Road

John Berryman

1965, 77 Dream Songs

Richard Eberhart

1966, Selected Poems

Anne Sexton

1967, Live or Die

Anthony Hecht

1968, The Hard Hours

George Oppen

1969, Of Being Numerous

Richard Howard

1970, Untitled Subjects

W.S. Merwin

1971, The Carrier of Ladders

James Wright

1972, Collected Poems

Maxine Winokur Kumin

1973, Up Country

Robert Lowell

1974, The Dolphin

Gary Snyder

1975, Turtle Island

John Ashbery

1976, Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror

James Merrill

1977, Divine Comedies: Poems

Howard Nemerov

1978, The Collected Poems

Robert Penn Warren

1979, Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978

Donald Justice

1980, Selected Poems

James Schuyler

1981, The Morning of the Poem

Sylvia Plath

1982, Collected Poems

Galway Kinnell

1983, Selected Poems

Mary Oliver

1984, American Primitive

Carolyn Kizer

1985, Yin

Henry Taylor

1986, The Flying Change

Rita Dove

1987, Thomas and Beulah

William Meredith

1988, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

Richard Wilbur

1989, New and Collected Poems

Charles Simic

1990, The World Doesn't End

Mona Van Duyn

1991, Near Changes

James Tate

1992, Selected Poems

Louise Gluck

1993, The Wild Iris

Yusef Komunyakaa

1994, Neon Vernacular

Philip Levine

1995, The Simple Truth

Jorie Graham

1996, The Dream of the Unified Field

Lisel Mueller

1997, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

Charles Wright

1998, Black Zodiac

Mark Strand

1999, Blizzard of One

C.K. Williams

2000, Repair

Stephen Dunn

2001, Different Hours

Carl Dennis

2002, Practical Gods

Paul Muldoon

2003, Moy Sand and Gravel

Franz Wright

2004, Walking to Martha's Vineyard

Ted Kooser

2005, Delight and Shadows

Claudia Emerson

2006, Late Wife

Natasha Threthewey

2007, Native Guard

Robert Hass

2008, Time and Materials

Philip Schultz

2008, Failure

W. S. Merwin

2009, The Shadow of Sirius

Rae Armantrout

2010, Versed

Kay Ryan

2011, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

Tracy K. Smith

2012, Life on Mars

Sharon Olds

2013, Stag's Leap

Vijay Seshadri

2014, 3 Sections

Gregory Pardlo

2015, Digest

Peter Balakian

2016, Ozone Journal

Tyehimba Jess

2017, Olio

Frank Bidart

2018, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016