Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winners — Complete List (1918–2025)

• New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe

  2025PulitzerPoetry

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  Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

  2024PulitzerPoetry

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  Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips

  2023PulitzerPoetry

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  Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss

  2022PulitzerPoetry

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  Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

  2021PulitzerPoetry

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  The Tradition by Jericho Brown

  2020PulitzerPoetry

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  Be With by Forrest Gander

  2019PulitzerPoetry

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  Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart

  2018PulitzerPoetry

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  Olio by Tyehimba Jess

  2017PulitzerPoetry

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• Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian

  2016PulitzerPoetry
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  Digest by Gregory Pardlo

  2015PulitzerPoetry

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  3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri

  2014PulitzerPoetry

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  Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds

  2013PulitzerPoetry

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  Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

  2012PulitzerPoetry

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• The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan

  2011PulitzerPoetry

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• Versed by Rae Armantrout

  2010PulitzerPoetry

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  The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin

  2009PulitzerPoetry

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  Time and Materials by Robert Hass

  2008PulitzerPoetry

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• Failure by Philip Schultz

  2008PulitzerPoetry

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  Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

  2007PulitzerPoetry

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• Late Wife by Claudia Emerson

  2006PulitzerPoetry

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  Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser

  2005PulitzerPoetry

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  Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright

  2004PulitzerPoetry

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  Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon

  2003PulitzerPoetry

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  Practical Gods by Carl Dennis

  2002PulitzerPoetry

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  Different Hours by Stephen Dunn

  2001PulitzerPoetry

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• Repair by C.K. Williams

  2000PulitzerPoetry

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  Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

  1999PulitzerPoetry

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  Black Zodiac by Charles Wright

  1998PulitzerPoetry

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  Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller

  1997PulitzerPoetry

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  The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham

  1996PulitzerPoetry

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  The Simple Truth by Philip Levine

  1995PulitzerPoetry

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  Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

  1994PulitzerPoetry

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  The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

  1993PulitzerPoetry

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  Selected Poems by James Tate

  1992PulitzerPoetry

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  Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn

  1991PulitzerPoetry

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  The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic

  1990PulitzerPoetry

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  New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur

  1989PulitzerPoetry

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• Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith

  1988PulitzerPoetry
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  Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove

  1987PulitzerPoetry

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  The Flying Change by Henry Taylor

  1986PulitzerPoetry

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• Yin by Carolyn Kizer

  1985PulitzerPoetry

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  American Primitive by Mary Oliver

  1984PulitzerPoetry

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• Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell

  1983PulitzerPoetry

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  The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath

  1982PulitzerPoetry

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  The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler

  1981PulitzerPoetry

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  Selected Poems by Donald Justice

  1980PulitzerPoetry

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  Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren

  1979PulitzerPoetry

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  Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov

  1978PulitzerPoetry

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  Divine Comedies by James Merrill

  1977PulitzerPoetry

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  Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

  1976PulitzerPoetry

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  Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

  1975PulitzerPoetry

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• The Dolphin by Robert Lowell

  1974PulitzerPoetry

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  Up Country by Maxine Kumin

  1973PulitzerPoetry

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• Collected Poems by James Wright

  1972PulitzerPoetry

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• The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin

  1971PulitzerPoetry

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  Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard

  1970PulitzerPoetry

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• Of Being Numerous by George Oppen

  1969PulitzerPoetry

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• The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht

  1968PulitzerPoetry

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• Live or Die by Anne Sexton

  1967PulitzerPoetry

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  Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart

  1966PulitzerPoetry

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  77 Dream Songs by John Berryman

  1965PulitzerPoetry

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• At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson

  1964PulitzerPoetry

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  Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams

  1963PulitzerPoetry

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• Poems by Alan Dugan

  1962PulitzerPoetry

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• Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley

  1961PulitzerPoetry

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  Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

  1960PulitzerPoetry

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• Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz

  1959PulitzerPoetry

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• Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren

  1958PulitzerPoetry

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• Things of This World by Richard Wilbur

  1957PulitzerPoetry

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• Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop

  1956PulitzerPoetry

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• Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

  1955PulitzerPoetry

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• The Waking by Theodore Roethke

  1954PulitzerPoetry

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• Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish

  1953PulitzerPoetry

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• Collected Poems by Marianne Moore

  1952PulitzerPoetry

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  Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg

  1951PulitzerPoetry

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  Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

  1950PulitzerPoetry

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• Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck

  1949PulitzerPoetry

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• The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden

  1948PulitzerPoetry

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  Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell

  1947PulitzerPoetry

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• V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

  1945PulitzerPoetry

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• Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét

  1944PulitzerPoetry

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• A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

  1943PulitzerPoetry

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• The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet

  1942PulitzerPoetry

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• Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon

  1941PulitzerPoetry

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• Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren

  1940PulitzerPoetry

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  Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher

  1939PulitzerPoetry

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• Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska

  1938PulitzerPoetry

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• A Further Range by Robert Frost

  1937PulitzerPoetry

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• Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

  1936PulitzerPoetry

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• Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann

  1935PulitzerPoetry

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• Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer

  1934PulitzerPoetry

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  Conquistador by Archibald Macleish

  1933PulitzerPoetry

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• The Flowering Stone by George Dillon

  1932PulitzerPoetry

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  Collected Poems by Robert Frost

  1931PulitzerPoetry

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• Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

  1930PulitzerPoetry

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• John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benét

  1929PulitzerPoetry

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• Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson

  1928PulitzerPoetry

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• Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer

  1927PulitzerPoetry

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• What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell

  1926PulitzerPoetry

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• The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson

  1925PulitzerPoetry

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• New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost

  1924PulitzerPoetry

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• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay

  1923PulitzerPoetry
• Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

  1922PulitzerPoetry

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• Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer

  1919PulitzerPoetry

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• Corn Huskers by Carl Sandburg

  1919PulitzerPoetry
• Love Songs by Sara Teasdale

  1918PulitzerPoetry

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