the PULITZER prize ✒ POETRY since 1922

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the PULITZER prize ✒ POETRY since 1922

laureates

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—A— • Rae ARMANTROUT ‧ ‧ • John ASHBERY ‧ 1927-2017 ‧

—B— —C— —D—

• Carl DENNIS ‧ 1939 ‧ • Rita Frances DOVE ‧ 1952 ‧ • Stephen DUNN ‧ 1939-2021 ‧ • Mona Jane Van DUYN ‧ 1921-2004 ‧
• Peter BALAKIAN ‧ 1951 ‧ • Frank BIDART ‧ 1939 ‧ • Jericho BROWN ‧ 1976 ‧ • Natalie DIAZ ‧ 1978 ‧
—E—

• Claudia EMERSON ‧ 1957-2014 ‧

—F—

—G—

• Louise GLUCK ‧ 1943 ‧ • Jorie GRAHAM ‧ 1950 ‧ • Forrest GANDER ‧ 1956 ‧

—H—

• Robert HASS ‧ 1941 ‧

—I— —J—

• Donald JUSTICE ‧ 1925-2004 ‧ • Tyehimba JESS ‧ 1965 ‧

—K—

• Galway KINNELL ‧ 1927-2014 ‧ • Carolyn KIZER ‧ 1925-2014 ‧ • Yusef KOMUNYAKAA ‧ 1947 ‧ • Ted KOOSER ‧ 1939 ‧ • Maxine KUMIN ‧ 1925-2014 ‧

—L—

• Philip LEVINE ‧ 1928-2015 ‧ • Robert Traill Spence LOWELL ‧ 1917-1977 ‧

—M—

• William MEREDITH ‧ 1919-2007 ‧ • James Ingram MERRILL ‧ 1926-1995 ‧ • William Stanley MERWIN ‧ 1927-2019 ‧ • Edna St.Vincent MILLAY ‧ 1892-1950 ‧ • Lisel MUELLER ‧ 1924-2020 ‧ • Paul MULDOON ‧ 1951 ‧ ‣

—N— —O—

• Mary OLIVER ‧ 1935-2019 ‧ • Sharon OLDS ‧ 1942 ‧

—P—

• Gregory PARDLO ‧ 1968 ‧ • Carl PHILLIPS ‧ 1959 ‧

• Sylvia PLATH ‧ 1932-1963 ‧

—Q— —R—

• Kay RYAN ‧ 1945 ‧

—S—
• Philip SCHULTZ ‧ 1945 ‧ • James Marcus SCHUYLER ‧ 1923-1991 ‧ • Dušan Charles SIMIĆ ‧ 1938-2023 ‧ • Gary SNYDER ‧ 1930 ‧ • Mark STRAND ‧ 1934-2014 ‧
• Tracy K. SMITH ‧ 1977 • Diane SEUSS ‧ 1956 ‧

—T—

• James TATE ‧ 1943-2015 ‧ • Henry S. TAYLOR ‧ 1942 ‧ • Sara Trevor TEASDALE ‧ 1884 - 1933 ‧ • Natasha TRETHEWEY ‧ 1966 ‧

—U— —V— —W—

• Robert Penn WARREN ‧ 1905-1989 ‧ • Charles Kenneth WILLIAMS ‧ 1936-2015 ‧ Richard Purdy WILBUR ‧ 1921-2017 ‧ • Charles WRIGHT ‧ 1935 ‧ • Franz WRIGHT ‧ 1953-2015 ‧ • James Arlington WRIGHT ‧ 1927-1980 ‧ • Vijay SESHADRI ‧ 1954 ‧

—X— —Y— —Z—

chronological

winning titel • AUTHOR ‣ publisher

• 2023 : Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 • Carl Phillips ‧ 1959 ‧ Farrar, Straus and Giroux •
• 2022 : frank: sonnets • Diane Seuss ‧ 1956 ‧ Graywolf Press •
• 2021 : Postcolonial Love Poem • Natalie Diaz ‧ 1978 ‧ Graywolf •
• 2020 : The Tradition • Jericho Brown ‧ 1976 ‧ Copper Canyon Press •
• 2019 : Be With • Forrest Gander ‧ 1956 ‧ New Directions •
• 2018 : Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 • Frank Bidart ‧ 1939 ‧ Farrar, Straus and Giroux •
• 2017 : Olio • Tyehimba Jess ‧ 1965 ‧ Wave Books •
• 2016 : Ozone Journal • Peter Balakian ‧ 1951 ‧ University of Chicago Press •
• 2015 : Digest • Gregory Pardlo ‧ 1968 ‧ Four Way Books •
• 2014 : 3 Sections • Vijay Seshadri ‧ 1954 ‧ Graywolf Press •
• 2013 : Stag's Leap • Sharon Olds ‧ 1942 ‧ Alfred A. Knopf books •
• 2012 : Life on Mars • Tracy K. Smith ‧ 1977 ‧ Graywolf Press •
• 2011 : The best of it: New and Selected Poems • Kay RYAN ‧ 1945 ‧ Grove/Atlantic •
• 2010 : Versed • Rae ARMANTROUT ‧ 1947 ‧ Wesleyan University Press : A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading •
• 2009 : The shadow of sirius • [6000000003288199033 William Stanley MERWIN] ‧ 1927 ‧ • Copper Canyon Press : A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory •
• 2008 : Time and materials • Robert HASS ‧ 1941 ‧ • Ecco/HarperCollins •
• 2008 : Failure • Philip SCHULTZ ‧ 1945 ‧ • Harcourt •
• 2007 : Native guard • Natasha TRETHEWEY ‧ 1966 ‧ Houghton Mifflin •
• 2006 : Late wife • Claudia EMERSON ‧ 1957 ‧ Louisiana State University Press •
• 2005 : Delights & shadows • Ted KOOSER ‧ 1939 ‧ Copper Canyon Press •
• 2004 : Walking to Martha's vineyard • Franz WRIGHT ‧ 1953 ‧ Alfred A. Knopf •
• 2003 : Moy sand and gravel • Paul MULDOON ‧ 1951 ‧ Farrar •
• 2002 : Practical gods • Carl DENNIS ‧ 1939 ‧ Penguin Books •
• 2001 : Different hours • Stephen DUNN ‧ 1939 ‧ W.W. Norton & Company •
• 2000 : Repair • Charles Kenneth WILLIAMS ‧ 1936 ‧ Farrar •
• 1999 : Blizzard of one • Mark STRAND ‧ 1934 ‧ Alfred A. Knopf •
• 1998 : Black zodiac • Charles WRIGHT ‧ 1935 ‧ Farrar •
• 1997 : Alive together: New and Selected Poems • Lisel MUELLER ‧ 1924 ‧ Louisiana State University Press •
• 1996 : The dream of the unified field • Jorie GRAHAM ‧ 1950 ‧ The Ecco Press •
• 1995 : The simple truth • Philip LEVINE ‧ 1928 ‧ Alfred A. Knopf •
• 1994 : Neon vernacular: New and Selected Poems • Yusef KOMUNYAKAA ‧ 1947 ‧ ‣ Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England •
• 1993 : The wild iris • Louise GLUCK ‧ 1943 ‧ The Ecco Press •
• 1992 : Selected poems • James TATE ‧ 1943 ‧ Wesleyan University Press •
• 1991 : Near changes • Mona Jane Van DUYN ‧ 1921-2004 ‧ Alfred A. Knopf •
• 1990 : The world doesn't end • Dušan Charles SIMIĆ ‧ 1938 ‧ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich •
• 1989 : Richard Purdy WILBUR ‧ 1921 ‧ New and Collected Poems ‣ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich •
• 1988 : Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems • William MEREDITH ‧ 1919-2007 ‧ • Alfred A. Knopf •
• 1987 : Thomas and Beulah • Rita Frances DOVE ‧ 1952 ‧ Carnegie-Mellon University Press •
• 1986 : The flying change • Henry S. TAYLOR ‧ 1942 ‧ Louisiana State University Press •
• 1985 : Yin • Carolyn KIZER ‧ 1925 ‧ • BOA Editions •
• 1984 : American primitive • Mary OLIVER ‧ 1935 ‧ • Atlanti'Little •
• 1983 : Selected poems • Galway KINNELL ‧ 1927 ‧ • Houghton Mifflin •
• 1982 : The collected poems • the late Sylvia PLATH ‧ 1932-1963 ‧ a posthumous publication • Harper & Row •
• 1981 : The morning of the poem • James Marcus SCHUYLER ‧ 1923-1991 ‧ Farrar •
• 1980 : Selected poems • Donald JUSTICE ‧ 1925-2004 ‧ Atheneum •
• 1979 : Now and then • Robert Penn WARREN ‧ 1905-1989 ‧ Random •
• 1978 : Collected poems • Howard NEMEROV ‧ 1920-1991 ‧ Univ. of Chicago •
• 1977 : Divine comedies • James Ingram MERRILL ‧ 1926-1995 ‧ Atheneum •
• 1976 : Self-portrait in a convex mirror • John ASHBERY ‧ 1927 ‧ Viking •
• 1975 : Gary SNYDER ‧ 1930 ‧ Turtle Island ‣ New Directions •
• 1974 : The dolphin • Robert Traill Spence LOWELL ‧ 1917-1977 ‧ Farrar •
• 1973 : Up country • Maxine KUMIN ‧ 1925 ‧ ‣ Harper •
• 1972 : Collected poems • James Arlington WRIGHT ‧ 1927-1980 ‧ Wesleyan Univ. Press •
• 1971 : The carrier of ladders • [6000000003288199033 William Stanley MERWIN] ‧ 1927 ‧ Atheneum •
• 1970 : Untitled subjects • Richard HOWARD ‧ 1929 ‧ Atheneum •
• 1969 : Of being numerous • George OPPEN ‧ 1908-1984 ‧ New Directions •
• 1968 : The hard hours • Anthony HECHT ‧ 1923-2004 ‧ Atheneum •
• 1967 : Live or die • Anne SEXTON ‧ 1928-1974 ‧ Houghton •
• 1966 : Selected poems • Richard EBERHART ‧ 1904-2005 ‧ New Directions •
• 1965 : 77 Dream songs • John Allyn BERRYMAN ‧ 1914-1972 ‧ Farrar •
• 1964 : At the end of the open road • Louis SIMPSON ‧ 1923 ‧ Wesleyan Univ. Press •
• 1963 : Pictures from Brueghel • the late William Carlos WILLIAMS ‧ 1883-1963 ‧ New Directions •
• 1962 : Poems • Alan DUGAN ‧ 1923-2003 ‧ Yale Univ. Press •
• 1961 : Times three: Selected verse from three decades • Phyllis McGINLEY ‧ 1905-1978 ‧ Viking •
• 1960 : Heart's needle • W. D. SNODGRASS ‧ 1926-2009 ‧ Knopf •
• 1959 : Selected poems 1928-1958 • Stanley KUNITZ ‧ 1905-2006 ‧ Little •
• 1958 : Promises: poems 1954-1956 • Robert Penn WARREN ‧ 1905-1989 ‧ Random •
• 1957 : Richard Purdy WILBUR ‧ 1921 ‧ Things of this world ‣ Harcourt •
• 1956 : Poems - North & South • Elizabeth BISHOP ‧ 1911-1979 ‧ Houghton •
• 1955 : Collected poems • Wallace STEVENS ‧ 1879-1955 ‧ Knopf •
• 1954 : The waking • Theodore ROETHKE ‧ 1908-1963 ‧ Doubleday •
• 1953 : Collected poems 1917-1952 • Archibald MacLEISH ‧ 1892-1982 ‧ Houghton •
• 1952 : Collected poems • Marianne MOORE ‧ 1887-1972 ‧ Macmillan •
• 1951 : Complete poems • Carl SANDBURG ‧ 1878-1967 ‧ Harcourt •
• 1950 : Annie Allen • Gwendolyn Elizabeth BROOKS ‧ 1917-2000 ‧ Harper •
• 1949 : Terror and decorum • Peter Robert Edwin VIERECK ‧ 1916-2006 ‧ Scribner •
• 1948 : The age of anxiety • Wystan Hugh AUDEN ‧ 1907-1973 ‧ Random •
• 1947 : Lord weary's castle • Robert Traill Spence LOWELL ‧ 1917-1977 ‧ Harcourt •
• 1946 : no award •
• 1945 : V-Letter and other poems • Karl Jay SHAPIRO ‧ 1913-2000 ‧ Reynal •
• 1944 : Western star • the late Stephen Vincent BENET ‧ ‧ Farrar •
• 1943 : A witness tree • Robert FROST ‧ 1874-1963 ‧ Holt •
• 1942 : William Rose BENET ‧ 1886-1950 ‧ The dust which Is god ‣ Dodd •
• 1941 : Sunderland capture • Leonard BACON ‧ ‧ ‣ Harper •
• 1940 : Collected poems • Mark Van DOREN ‧ 1894-1972 ‧ ‣ Holt •
• 1939 : Selected poems • John Gould FLETCHER ‧ 1886-1950 ‧ ‣ Farrar •
• 1938 : Cold morning sky • Marya ZATURENSKA ‧ 1902-1982 ‧ ‣ Macmillan •
• 1937 : A further range • Robert FROST ‧ 1874-1963 ‧ ‣ Holt •
• 1936 : Strange holiness • Robert Peter Tristram COFFIN ‧ 1892-1955 ‧ ‣ Macmillan •
• 1935 : Bright ambush • Audrey WURDEMANN ‧ 1911-1960 ‧ ‣ John Day •
• 1934 : Collected verse • Robert HILLYER ‧ 1895-1961 ‧ ‣ Knopf •
• 1933 : Conquistador • Archibald MacLEISH ‧ 1892-1982 ‧ ‣ Houghton •
• 1932 : The flowering stone • George DILLON ‧ 1906-1968 ‧ ‣ Viking •
• 1931 : Collected poems • Robert FROST ‧ 1874-1963 ‧ ‣ Holt •
• 1930 : Selected poems • Conrad AIKEN ‧ 1889-1973 ‧ ‣ Scribner •
• 1929 : John Browns body • Stephen Vincent BENET ‧ 1898-1943 ‧ ‣ Farrar •
• 1928 : Tristram • Edwin Arlington ROBINSON ‧ 1869-1935 ‧ ‣ Macmillan •
• 1927 : Fiddler's farewell • Leonora SPEYER ‧ 1872-1956 ‧ ‣ Knopf •
• 1926 : What's o'clock • the late Amy LOWELL ‧ 1874-1925 ‧ ‣ Houghton •
• 1925 : The man who died twice • Edwin Arlington ROBINSON ‧ 1892-1950 ‧ ‣ Macmillan •
• 1924 : New Hampshire: A poem with notes and grace notes • Robert FROST ‧ 187-1963 ‧ ‣ Holt •
• 1923 : The ballad of the harp-weaver: a few figs from thistles: eight sonnets in American poetry
• 1922 : Edna St. Vincent MILLAY ‧ 1892-1950 ‧ A miscellany ‣ Harper •
• 1922 : Collected Poems • Edwin Arlington ROBINSON ‧ 1869-1935 ‧ Macmillan •
• 1919 : Corn Huskers • Carl SANDBURG • award possible by special grant from The poetry society •
• 1919 : Old Road to Paradise • Margaret WIDDEMER ‧ x ‧ award possible by special grant from The poetry society •
• 1918 : Sara Trevor TEASDALE ‧ 1884-1933 ‧ Love songs ‣ award possible by special grant from The poetry society •

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