Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

2015 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerDigestGregory PardloFrom Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art ...Amazon2015 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistCompass RoseArthur SzeAmazonReel to ReelAlan ShapiroAmazon

2014 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry Winner3 SectionsVijay SeshadriWinner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri's is assured and expert, his line as canny as ever. In an array of poetic forms from the rhyming lyric to the philosophical meditation to the prose essay, 3 Sections confronts perpl...Amazon2014 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistThe Big SmokeAdrian MatejkaAmazonThe Sleep of ReasonMorri CreechAmazon

2013 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerStag's LeapSharon OldsA poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the ......Amazon2013 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistCollected PoemsJack GilbertAmazonThe Abundance of NothingBruce WeiglAmazon

2012 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerLife on MarsTracy K. SmithWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by th...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistCore Samples from the WorldForrest GanderAmazonHow LongRon PadgettAmazon

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Best of It: New and Selected PoemsKay RyanKay Ryan’s recent appointment as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious device...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistBreak the GlassJean ValentineAmazonThe Common ManMaurice ManningAmazon

2009 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Shadow of SiriusW. S. MerwinUS Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced 'h...Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistWatching the Spring FestivalFrank BidartAmazonWhat Love Comes To: New & Selected PoemsRuth StoneAmazon

1971 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Carrier of LaddersW. S. Merwin...Amazon

2007 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerNative GuardNatasha TretheweyIncluded in this audio-enhanced edition are recordings of the U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reading Native Guard in its entirety, as well as an interview with the poet from the HMH podcast The Poetic Voice, in which she recounts what it was like to ...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistInterrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004David WojahnAmazonThe Republic of PoetryMartín EspadaAmazon

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerLate WifeClaudia EmersonA collection of poems in which the poet reminisces about the life she led with her first husband, describes the healing she went through after her divorce, and expresses her feelings toward her second husband, whose former wife died of cancer....Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistAmerican SublimeElizabeth AlexanderAmazonElegy on Toy PianoDean YoungAmazon