The Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

Love Songs

Love Songs

1918 winner by Sara Teasdale

Cornhuskers

Joint 1919 winner by Carl Sandburg

The Old Road to Paradise

Joint 1919 winner by Margaret Widdemer

Collected Poems

1922 winner by Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; "Eight Sonnets" in American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany

1923 winner by Edna St. Vincent Millay

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes

1924 winner by Robert Frost

The Man Who Died Twice

1925 winner by Edwin Arlington Robinson

What's O'Clock

1926 winner by Amy Lowell

Fiddler's Farewell

1927 winner by Leonora Speyer

Tristram

1928 winner by Edwin Arlington Robinson

John Bronwn's Body

1929 winner by Stephen Vincent Benét

Selected Poems

1930 winner by Conrad Aiken

Collected Poems of Robert Frost

1931 winner by Robert Frost

The Flowering Stone

1932 winner by George Dillon

Conquistador

1933 winner by Archibald MacLeish

The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer

1934 winner by Robert Hillyer

Bright Ambush

1935 winner by Audrey Wurdemann

Strange Holiness

1936 winner by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

A Further Range

1937 winner by Robert Frost

Cold Morning Sky

1938 winner by Marya Zaturenska

Selected Poems (2)

1939 winner by John Gould Fletcher

Collected Poems (2)

1940 winner by Mark Van Doren

Sunderland Capture and Other Poems

1941 winner by Leonard Bacon

The Dust Which Is God

1942 winner by William Rose Benét

A Witness Tree

1943 winner by Robert Frost

Western Star

1944 winner by Stephen Vincent Benét

V-Letter and Other Poems

1945 winner by Karl Shapiro

Lord Weary's Castle

1947 winner by Robert Lowell

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

1948 winner by W.H. Auden

Terror and Decorum: Poems, 1940-1948

1949 winner by Peter Viereck

Annie Allen

1950 winner by Gwendolyn Brooks

Complete Poems

1951 winner by Carl Sandburg

Collected Poems (3)

1952 winner by Marianne Moore

Collected Poems, 1917-1952

1953 winner by Archibald MacLeish

The Walking: Poems, 1933-1953

1954 winner by Theodore Roethke

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

1955 winner by Wallace Stevens

Poems: North & South-A Cold Spring

1956 winner by Elizabeth Bishop

Things of This World

1957 winner by Richard Wilbur

Promises: Poems 1954-1956

1958 winner by Robert Penn Warren

Selected Poems, 1928-1958

1959 winner by Stanley Kunitz

Heart's Needle

1960 winner by W.D. Snodgrass

Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades with Seventy New Poems

1961 winner by Phyllis McGinley

Poems

1962 winner by Alan Dugan

Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems: Collected Poems, 1950-1962

1963 winner by William Carlos Williams

At the End of the Open Road

1964 winner by Louis Simpson

77 Dream Songs

1965 winner by John Berryman

Selected Poems, 1930-1965

1966 winner by Richard Eberheart

Live or Die

1967 winner by Anne Sexton

The Hard Hours

1968 winner by Anthony Hecht

Of Being Numerous

1969 winner by George Oppen

Untitled Subjects

1970 winner by Richard Howard

The Carrier of Ladders

1971 winner by W.S. Merwin

Collected Poems (4)

1972 winner by James Wright

Up Country: Poems of New England, New and Selected

1973 winner by Maxine Kumin

The Dolphin

1974 winner by Robert Lowell

Turtle Island

1975 winner by Gary Snyder

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

1976 winner by John Ashbery

Divine Comedies

1977 winner by James Merrill

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

1978 winner by Howard Nemerov

Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978

1979 winner by Robert Penn Warren

Selected Poems (3)

1980 winner by Donald Justice

The Morning of the Poem

1981 winner by James Schuyler

The Collected Poems

1982 winner by Sylvia Plath

Selected Poems (4)

1983 winner by Galway Kinnell

American Primitive

1984 winner by Mary Oliver

Yin: New Poems

1985 winner by Carolyn Kizer

The Flying Change

1986 winner by Henry Taylor

Thomas and Beulah

1987 winner by Rita Dove

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

1988 winner by William Meredith

New and Collected Poems

1989 winner by Richard Wilbur

The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

1990 winner by Charles Simic

Near Changes

1991 winner by Mona Van Duyn

Selected Poems (5)

1992 winner by James Tate

The Wild Iris

1993 winner by Louise Glück

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

1994 winner by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Simple Truth

1995 winner by Philip Levine

The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994

1996 winner by Jorie Graham

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

1997 winner by Lisel Mueller

Black Zodaic

1998 winner by Charles Wright

Blizzard of One

1999 winner by Mark Strand

Repair

2000 winner by C.K. Williams

Different Hours

2001 winner by Stephen Dunn

Practical Gods

2002 winner by Carl Dennis

Moy Sand and Gravel

2003 winner by Paul Muldoon

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

2004 winner by Franz Wright

Delights & Shadows

2005 winner by Ted Kooser

Late Wife

2006 winner by Claudia Emerson

Native Guard

2007 winner by Natasha Trethewey

Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005

Joint 2008 winner by Robert Hass

Failure

Joint 2008 winner by Philip Schultz

The Shadow of Sirius

2009 winner by W.S. Merwin

Versed

2010 winner by Rae Armantrout

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

2011 winner by Kay Ryan

Life on Mars

2012 winner by Tracy K. Smith

Stag's Leap

2013 winner by Sharon Olds

3 Sections

2014 winner by Vijay Seshadri

Digest

2015 winner by Gregory Pardlo

Ozone Journal

2016 winner by Peter Balakian

Olio

2017 winner by Tyehimba Jess

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

2018 winner by Frank Bidart