2019 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Be With
Forrest Gander
2018 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
Frank Bidart
2017 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Olio
Tyehimba Jess
2016 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Ozone Journal
Peter Balakian
2015 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Digest
Gregory Pardlo
2014 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

3 Sections
Vijay Seshadri
2013 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Stag’s Leap
Sharon Olds
2012 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Life on Mars
Tracy K. Smith
2011 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan
2010 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Versed
Rae Armantrout
2009 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Shadow of Sirius
W. S. Merwin
2008 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Failure
Philip Schultz
2007 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey
2006 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Late Wife
Claudia Emerson
2005 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Delights & Shadows
Ted Kooser
2004 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Walking to Martha’s Vineyard
Franz Wright
2003 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Moy Sand and Gravel
Paul Muldoon
2002 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Practical Gods
Carl Dennis
2001 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Different Hours
Stephen Dunn
2000 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Repair
C. K. Williams
1999 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Blizzard of One
Mark Strand
1998 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
1997 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
Lisel Mueller
1996 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Dream of the Unified Field
Jorie Graham
1995 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Simple Truth
Philip Levine
1994 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa
1993 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Wild Iris
Louise Glück
1992 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems
James Tate
1991 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Near Changes
Mona Van Duyn
1990 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The World Doesn’t End
Charles Simic
1989 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

New and Collected Poems
Richard Wilbur
1988 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
William Meredith
1987 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove
1986 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Flying Change
Henry S. Taylor
1985 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Yin
Carolyn Kizer
1984 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

American Primitive
Mary Oliver
1983 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems
Galway Kinnell
1982 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath
1981 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Morning of the Poem
James Schuyler
1980 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems
Donald Justice
1979 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Now and Then
Robert Penn Warren
1978 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems
Howard Nemerov
1977 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Divine Comedies
James Merrill
1976 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
John Ashbery
1975 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Turtle Island
Gary Snyder
1974 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Dolphin
Robert Lowell
1973 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Up Country
Maxine Kumin
1972 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems
James Wright
1971 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Carrier of Ladders
W. S. Merwin
1970 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Untitled Subjects
Richard Howard
1969 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Of Being Numerous
George Oppen
1968 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Hard Hours
Anthony Hecht
1967 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Live or Die
Anne Sexton
1966 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems
Richard Eberhart
1965 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

77 Dream Songs
John Berryman
1964 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

At The End Of The Open Road
Louis Simpson
1963 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Pictures from Brueghel
William Carlos Williams
1962 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Poems
Alan Dugan
1961 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
Phyllis McGinley
1960 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Heart’s Needle
W. D. Snodgrass
1959 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems 1928-1958
Stanley Kunitz
1958 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Promises: Poems 1954-1956
Robert Penn Warren
1957 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Things of This World
Richard Wilbur
1956 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Poems: North & South – A Cold Spring
Elizabeth Bishop
1955 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems
Wallace Stevens
1954 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Waking
Theodore Roethke
1953 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems 1917–1952
Archibald MacLeish
1952 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems
Marianne Moore
1951 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Complete Poems
Carl Sandburg
1950 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks
1949 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Terror and Decorum
Peter Viereck
1948 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Age of Anxiety
W. H. Auden
1947 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Lord Weary’s Castle
Robert Lowell
1946 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

No award given
1945 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

V-Letter and Other Poems
Karl Shapiro
1944 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Western Star
Stephen Vincent Benét
1943 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

A Witness Tree
Robert Frost
1942 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Dust Which Is God
William Rose Benét
1941 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Sunderland Capture
Leonard Bacon
1940 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems
Mark Van Doren
1939 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems
John Gould Fletcher
1938 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Cold Morning Sky
Marya Zaturenska
1937 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

A Further Range
Robert Frost
1936 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Strange Holiness
Robert P. T. Coffin
1935 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Bright Ambush
Audrey Wurdemann
1934 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Verse
Robert Hillyer
1933 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Conquistador
Archibald MacLeish
1932 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Flowering Stone
George Dillon
1931 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems
Robert Frost
1930 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Selected Poems
Conrad Aiken
1929 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

John Brown’s Body
Stephen Vincent Benét
1928 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Tristram
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1927 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Fiddler’s Farewell
Leonora Speyer
1926 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

What’s O’Clock
Amy Lowell
1925 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Man Who Died Twice
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1924 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
Robert Frost
1923 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, A Few Figs from Thistles, and “Eight Sonnets”,
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1922 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
