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