Pulitzer Prizes — Poetry

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

  2011PulitzerPoetry
• 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
• Failure by Philip Schultz

  2008PulitzerPoetry
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  Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

  2007PulitzerPoetry
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yin by Carolyn Kizer

  1985PulitzerPoetry
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  American Primitive by Mary Oliver

  1984PulitzerPoetry
• 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
• The Dolphin by Robert Lowell

  1974PulitzerPoetry
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  Up Country by Maxine Kumin

  1973PulitzerPoetry
• Collected Poems by James Wright

  1972PulitzerPoetry
• The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin

  1971PulitzerPoetry
• Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard

  1970PulitzerPoetry
• Of Being Numerous by George Oppen

  1969PulitzerPoetry
• The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht

  1968PulitzerPoetry
• 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
• 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
• Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley

  1961PulitzerPoetry
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  Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

  1960PulitzerPoetry
• Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz

  1959PulitzerPoetry
• Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren

  1958PulitzerPoetry
• Things of This World by Richard Wilbur

  1957PulitzerPoetry
• Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop

  1956PulitzerPoetry
• Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

  1955PulitzerPoetry
• The Waking by Theodore Roethke

  1954PulitzerPoetry
• Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish

  1953PulitzerPoetry
• 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
• Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck

  1949PulitzerPoetry
• The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden

  1948PulitzerPoetry
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  Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell

  1947PulitzerPoetry
• V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

  1945PulitzerPoetry
• Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét

  1944PulitzerPoetry
• A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

  1943PulitzerPoetry
• The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet

  1942PulitzerPoetry
• Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon

  1941PulitzerPoetry
• Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren

  1940PulitzerPoetry
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  Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher

  1939PulitzerPoetry
• Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska

  1938PulitzerPoetry
• A Further Range by Robert Frost

  1937PulitzerPoetry
• Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

  1936PulitzerPoetry
• Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann

  1935PulitzerPoetry
• Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer

  1934PulitzerPoetry
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  Conquistador by Archibald Macleish

  1933PulitzerPoetry
• The Flowering Stone by George Dillon

  1932PulitzerPoetry
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  Collected Poems by Robert Frost

  1931PulitzerPoetry
• Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

  1930PulitzerPoetry
• John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benét

  1929PulitzerPoetry
• Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson

  1928PulitzerPoetry
• Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer

  1927PulitzerPoetry
• What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell

  1926PulitzerPoetry
• The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson

  1925PulitzerPoetry
• New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost

  1924PulitzerPoetry
• 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
• Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer

  1919PulitzerPoetry
• Corn Huskers by Carl Sandburg

  1919PulitzerPoetry
• Love Songs by Sara Teasdale

  1918PulitzerPoetry