Nominations 2013 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Frank Bidart |
Metaphysical Dog
|
| Lucie Brock-Broido |
Stay, Illusion
|
| Adrian Matejka |
The Big Smoke
|
| Matt Rasmussen |
Black Aperture
|
| Mary Szybist |
Incarnadine: Poems
|
|
Nominations 2012 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Ferry |
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
|
| Cynthia Huntington |
Heavenly Bodies
|
| Tim Seibles |
Fast Animal
|
| Alan Shapiro |
Night of the Republic
|
| Susan Wheeler |
Meme
|
|
Nominations 2011 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Yusef Komunyakaa |
The Chameleon Couch
|
| Carl Phillips |
Double Shadow
|
| Adrienne Rich |
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010
|
| Bruce Smith |
Devotions
|
| Nikky Finney |
Head Off & Split
|
|
Nominations 2010 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Terrance Hayes |
Lighthead
|
| Kathleen Graber |
The Eternal City
|
| James Richardson |
By the Numbers
|
| Carolyn D. Wright |
One with Others
|
| Monica Youn |
Ignatz
|
|
Nominations 2009 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Keith Waldrop |
Transcendental studies
|
| Rae Armantrout |
Versed
|
| Ann Lauterbach |
Or to Begin Again
|
| Carl Phillips |
Speak Low
|
| Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon |
Open Interval
|
|
Nominations 2008 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mark Doty |
Fire to Fire
|
| Frank Bidart |
Watching the Spring Festival
|
| Reginald Gibbons |
Creatures of a Day
|
| Richard Howard |
Without Saying
|
| Patricia Smith |
Blood dazzler
|
|
Nominations 2007 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Hass |
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005
|
| Linda Gregerson |
Magnetic North
|
| David Kirby |
The House on Boulevard St
|
| Stanley Plumly |
Old Heart
|
| Ellen Bryant Voigt |
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
|
|
Nominations 2006 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Nathaniel Mackey |
Splay Anthem
|
| Louise Glück |
Averno
|
| H. L. Hix |
Chromatic
|
| Ben Lerner |
Angle of Yaw
|
| James L. McMichael |
Capacity
|
|
Nominations 2005 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| W. S. Merwin |
Selected Poems
|
| John Ashbery |
Where Shall I Wander
|
| Frank Bidart |
Star Dust
|
| Brendan Galvin |
Habitat
|
| Vern Rutsala |
The Moment's Equation
|
|
Nominations 2004 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jean Valentine |
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
|
| William Heyen |
Shoah train
|
| Donald Justice |
Collected Poems
|
| Carl Phillips |
The Rest of Love
|
| Cole Swensen |
Goest
|
|
Nominations 2003 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| C. K. Williams |
The Singing
|
| Carol Muske-Dukes |
Sparrow
|
| Charles Simic |
The Voice at 3:00 A.M
|
| Louis Simpson |
The owner of the house
|
| Kevin Young |
Jelly Roll
|
|
Nominations 2002 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ruth Stone |
In the Next Galaxy
|
| Harryette Mullen |
Sleeping with the Dictionary
|
| Sharon Olds |
The Unswept Room
|
| Alberto Ríos |
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
|
| Ellen Bryant Voigt |
Shadow of Heaven
|
|
Nominations 2001 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alan Dugan |
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
|
| Agha Shahid Ali |
Rooms are never finished
|
| Wanda Coleman |
Mercurochrome
|
| Cornelius Eady |
Brutal imagination
|
| Gail Mazur |
They Can't Take That Away from Me
|
|
Nominations 2000 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lucille Clifton |
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
|
| Kim Addonizio |
Tell me
|
| Galway Kinnell |
A New Selected Poems
|
| Kenneth Koch |
New Addresses: Poems
|
| Bruce Smith |
The Other Lover
|
|
Nominations 1999 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ai |
Vice: New & Selected Poems
|
| Louise Glück |
Vita Nova
|
| Clarence Major |
Configurations
|
| Sherod Santos |
The pilot star elegies
|
| C. K. Williams |
Repair
|
|
Nominations 1998 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gerald Stern |
This Time: New and Selected Poems
|
| B. H. Fairchild |
The art of the lathe
|
| Alicia Ostriker |
The little space
|
| Linda Pastan |
Carnival evening
|
| Carl Phillips |
From the devotions
|
|
Nominations 1997 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Balaban |
Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems
|
| Frank Bidart |
Desire
|
| Sarah Lindsay |
Primate Behavior
|
| Marilyn Nelson |
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
|
| William Morris Meredith |
Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
|
|
Nominations 1996 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Hayden Carruth |
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
|
| Lucille Clifton |
The terrible stories
|
| Robert Hass |
Sun Under Wood
|
| Alicia Ostriker |
The crack in everything
|
| Charles Simic |
Walking the black cat
|
|
Nominations 1995 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stanley Kunitz |
Passing Through: The Later Poems
|
| Barbara Howes |
Collected poems, 1945-1990
|
| Josephine Jacobsen |
In the Crevice of Time
|
| Donald Justice |
New and Selected Poems
|
| Gary Soto |
New and selected poems
|
|
Nominations 1994 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Tate |
A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
|
| Richard Howard |
Like Most Revelations: New Poems
|
| Heather McHugh |
Hinge & sign
|
| Anne Porter |
An altogether different language
|
| David St. John |
Study for the world's body
|
|
Nominations 1993 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| A. R. Ammons |
Garbage
|
| Mark Doty |
My Alexandria
|
| Margaret Gibson |
The vigil : a poem in four voices
|
| Donald Hall |
The museum of clear ideas
|
| Lawrence Raab |
What We Don't Know About Each Other
|
|
Nominations 1992 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Hayden Carruth |
Collected shorter poems, 1946-1991
|
| Louise Glück |
The Wild Iris
|
| Susan Mitchell |
Rapture
|
| Gary Snyder |
No nature
|
| Mary Oliver |
New and Selected Poems
|
|
Nominations 1991 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Philip Levine |
What Work Is
|
| Andrew Hudgins |
The never-ending
|
| Linda McCarriston |
Eva-Mary
|
| Adrienne Rich |
An Atlas of the Difficult World
|
| Marilyn Nelson |
The Homeplace
|
|
Nominations 1983 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems
|
| Jack Gilbert |
Monolithos
|
| Linda Pastan |
PM/AM, new and selected poems
|
| Mona Van Duyn |
Letters from a father, and other poems
|
| Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems
|
|
Nominations 1983 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems
|
| Jack Gilbert |
Monolithos
|
| Linda Pastan |
PM/AM, new and selected poems
|
| Mona Van Duyn |
Letters from a father, and other poems
|
| Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems
|
|
Nominations 1982 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Bronk |
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
|
| A. R. Ammons |
A Coast of Trees
|
| John Ashbery |
Shadow train
|
| Douglas Crase |
The revisionist
|
| Daniel Hoffman |
Brotherly Love
|
|
Nominations 1981 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lisel Mueller |
The Need to Hold Still
|
| Philip Booth |
Before Sleep
|
| Isabella Gardner |
That Was Then
|
| Mark Strand |
Selected Poems
|
| Robert Penn Warren |
Being Here: Poetry 1977 \u2013 1980
|
|
Nominations 1980 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Philip Levine |
Ashes: Poems New and Old
|
| Stanley Kunitz |
The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
|
| David Wagoner |
In Broken Country
|
|
Nominations 1979 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Merrill |
Mirabell: Books of Number
|
| Robert Hayden |
American journal
|
| Sandra McPherson |
The year of our birth
|
| Philip Schultz |
Like wings
|
| May Swenson |
New & selected things taking place
|
|
Nominations 1978 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Howard Nemerov |
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
|
| Marvin Bell |
Stars which see, stars which do not see
|
| Michael S. Harper |
Images of kin
|
| Barbara Howes |
A private signal
|
| Charles Simic |
Charon's cosmology
|
|
Nominations 1977 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Eberhart |
Collected Poems, 1930-1976
|
| Irving Feldman |
Leaping clear and other poems
|
| Margaret Newlin |
The snow falls upward
|
| Muriel Rukeyser |
The gates
|
| David Wagoner |
Collected Poems, 1956-1976
|
|
Nominations 1976 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Ashbery |
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
|
| Richard Hugo |
What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American
|
| P.J. Laska |
D.C. Images
|
| John N. Morris |
The Life Beside This One
|
| Leonard Nathan |
Returning your call
|
| George Oppen |
Collected Poems
|
| Carolyn Rodgers |
How I Got Ovah
|
| Sherley Anne Williams |
The peacock poems
|
|
Nominations 1975 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Marilyn Hacker |
Presentation Piece
|
| A. R. Ammons |
Sphere
|
| John Balaban |
After Our War
|
| Albert Goldbarth |
Jan. 31
|
| Richard Howard |
Two-part inventions
|
| Josephine Jacobsen |
The shade-seller; new and selected poems
|
| Michael Ryan |
Threats instead of trees
|
| Susan Fromberg Schaeffer |
Granite lady; poems
|
| David Wagoner |
Sleeping in the woods
|
| Reed Whittemore |
The mother's breast and the father's house
|
|
Nominations 1974 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Allen Ginsberg |
The Fall of America: Poems of These States
|
| Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
|
| Hayden Carruth |
From snow and rock, from chaos
|
| Evan S. Connell |
Points for a Compass Rose
|
| Peter Everwine |
Collecting the Animals
|
| Richard Hugo |
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
|
| Donald Justice |
Departures
|
| Eleanor Lerman |
Armed Love
|
| Audre Lorde |
From a Land Where Other People Live
|
| Alice Walker |
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
|
| Charles Wright |
Hard Freight
|
|
Nominations 1974 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Allen Ginsberg |
The Fall of America: Poems of These States
|
| Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
|
| Hayden Carruth |
From snow and rock, from chaos
|
| Evan S. Connell |
Points for a Compass Rose
|
| Peter Everwine |
Collecting the Animals
|
| Richard Hugo |
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
|
| Donald Justice |
Departures
|
| Eleanor Lerman |
Armed Love
|
| Audre Lorde |
From a Land Where Other People Live
|
| Alice Walker |
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
|
| Charles Wright |
Hard Freight
|
|
Nominations 1973 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| A. R. Ammons |
Collected Poems, 1951-1971
|
| W. H. Auden |
Epistle to a Godson
|
| John Berryman |
Delusions, etc. of John Berryman
|
| Richard Eberhart |
Fields of grace
|
| Samuel John Hazo |
Once for the last bandit
|
| John Hollander |
Town & country matters
|
| Denise Levertov |
FootPrints
|
| Archibald MacLeish |
The Human Season
|
| James Merrill |
Braving the Elements
|
| Frederick Morgan |
A book of change
|
| Ishmael Reed |
Conjure; selected poems, 1963-1970
|
| Louis Simpson |
Adventures of the letter I
|
|
Nominations 1972 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Howard Moss |
Selected Poems
|
| Frank O'Hara |
The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
|
|
Nominations 1972 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Howard Moss |
Selected Poems
|
| Frank O'Hara |
The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
|
|
Nominations 1971 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mona Van Duyn |
To See, To Take
|
| Gregory Corso |
Elegiac feelings American
|
| W. S. Merwin |
The Carrier of Ladders
|
| Mark Strand |
Darker
|
| May Swenson |
Iconographs; poems
|
|
Nominations 1970 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
The Complete Poems
|
| Daniel Berrigan |
False gods, real men
|
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
The Secret Meaning of Things
|
| Robert Lowell |
Notebook 1967-68
|
| Philip Whalen |
On Bear's Head
|
|
Nominations 1969 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Berryman |
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
|
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
In the Mecca; Poems
|
| Galway Kinnell |
Body rags
|
| John Thompson |
The Talking Girl
|
| Keith Waldrop |
A windmill near Calvary
|
|
Nominations 1968 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Bly |
The Light Around the Body
|
| Denise Levertov |
The Sorrow Dance
|
| W. S. Merwin |
The lice
|
| Kenneth Rexroth |
The complete poems of Kenneth Rexroth
|
| Louis Zukofsky |
A-12
|
|
Nominations 1967 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Merrill |
Nights and Days
|
| John Ashbery |
Rivers and mountains
|
| Barbara Howes |
Looking up at leaves
|
| Marianne Moore |
Tell me, tell me
|
| Adrienne Rich |
Necessities of life
|
| William Jay Smith |
The tin can, and other poems
|
|
Nominations 1966 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Dickey |
Buckdancer's Choice
|
| W. H. Auden |
About the House
|
| Elizabeth Bishop |
Questions of travel
|
| Richard Eberhart |
Selected poems, 1930-1965
|
| Irving Feldman |
The Pripet Marshes
|
| Randall Jarrell |
The lost world
|
| Louis Simpson |
Selected Poems
|
|
Nominations 1965 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Theodore Roethke |
The Far Field
|
| Ben Belitt |
The enemy joy, new and selected poems
|
| John Berryman |
77 Dream Songs
|
| James Dickey |
Helmets
|
| Jean Garrigue |
Country without maps
|
| Galway Kinnell |
Flower herding on Mount Monadnock
|
| Robert Lowell |
For the Union Dead
|
| William Morris Meredith |
The Wreck of the Thresher
|
|
Nominations 1964 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Crowe Ransom |
Selected Poems
|
| W. S. Merwin |
The moving target
|
| Louis Simpson |
At The End Of The Open Road
|
| May Swenson |
To Mix with Time: New and Selected Poems
|
|
Nominations 1963 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Stafford |
Traveling Through the Dark
|
| Robert Creeley |
For love
|
| Donald F. Drummond |
The Drawbridge
|
| Robert Frost |
In the Clearing
|
| Kenneth Koch |
Thank you, and other poems
|
| Howard Nemerov |
Next Room of the Dream
|
| Winfield Townley Scott |
Collected poems, 1937-1962
|
| Anne Sexton |
All My Pretty Ones
|
| William Carlos Williams |
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
|
|
Nominations 1962 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alan Dugan |
Poems
|
| Robert Bagg |
Madonna of the cello
|
| Philip Booth |
The Islanders
|
| John Ciardi |
In the Stoneworks
|
| H.D. |
Helen in Egypt
|
| Abbie Huston Evans |
Facts of Crystal
|
| Isabella Gardner |
The Looking Glass
|
| Horace Gregory |
Medusa in Gramercy Park
|
| John Holmes |
The Fortune Teller
|
| Denise Levertov |
Jacob's Ladder
|
| Ned O'Gorman |
Adam Before His Mirror
|
| John Hall Wheelock |
The Gardner and other Poems
|
|
Nominations 1961 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Randall Jarrell |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
|
| W. H. Auden |
Homage to Clio
|
| J. V. Cunningham |
The exclusions of a rhyme
|
| Robert Duncan |
The Opening of the Field
|
| Richard Eberhart |
Collected poems, 1930-1960
|
| Donald Justice |
The Summer Anniversaries
|
| Howard Nemerov |
New and Selected Poems
|
| John Frederick Nims |
Knowledge of the evening
|
| Anne Sexton |
To Bedlam and part way back
|
| George Starbuck |
Bone thoughts
|
| Eleanor Ross Taylor |
Wilderness of ladies
|
| Theodore Weiss |
Outlanders
|
| Yvor Winters |
Collected Poems
|
|
Nominations 1960 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Lowell |
Life Studies
|
|
Nominations 1959 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Theodore Roethke |
Words for the Wind","Collected poems
|
| John Ciardi |
I Marry You
|
| E. E. Cummings |
Poems
|
| Archibald MacLeish |
J.B.
|
| Howard Nemerov |
Mirrors and Windows
|
| Karl Shapiro |
Poems of a Jew
|
| May Swenson |
A cage of spines
|
| William Carlos Williams |
Paterson, Book IV
|
|
Nominations 1958 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Penn Warren |
Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
|
| Daniel Berrigan |
Time Without Number
|
| Philip Booth |
Letter from a Distant Land
|
| Edwin Gladding Burrows |
The Arctic Tern
|
| H.D. |
Selected Poems of H.D.
|
| Richard Eberhart |
Great praises
|
| Richmond Lattimore |
Poems
|
| Howard Moss |
A swimmer in the air
|
| May Sarton |
In time like air
|
| Eli Siegel |
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems
|
| William Jay Smith |
Poems: 1947-1957
|
| Wallace Stevens |
Opus posthumous
|
| James Wright |
The green wall
|
|
Nominations 1957 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Wilbur |
Things of This World
|
| Edgar Bowers |
The Form of Loss
|
| Leah Bodine Drake |
This Tilting Dust
|
| Charles Edward Eaton |
The greenhouse in the garden
|
| Kenneth Fearing |
New and selected poems
|
| Robert Fitzgerald |
In the Rose of Time
|
| Katherine Hoskins |
Villa Narcisse
|
| Rolfe Humphries |
Green armor on green ground
|
| Joseph Langland |
Poets of today. III
|
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
The Unicorn & Other Poems
|
| W. S. Merwin |
Green with beasts
|
| Marianne Moore |
Like a bulwark
|
| Ezra Pound |
Section: rock-drill
|
| Kenneth Rexroth |
In defense of the earth
|
| John Hall Wheelock |
Poems Old and New
|
|
Nominations 1956 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| W. H. Auden |
The Shield of Achilles
|
| Elizabeth Bishop |
Poems: North & south
|
| John Ciardi |
As If
|
| Isabella Gardner |
Birthdays from the ocean
|
| Donald Hall |
Exiles and Marriages
|
| Randall Jarrell |
Selected poems
|
| Adrienne Rich |
The diamond cutters
|
| William Carlos Williams |
Journey to Love
|
|
Nominations 1955 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Wallace Stevens |
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
|
| E. E. Cummings |
Poems, 1923-1954
|
| Léonie Adams |
Poems: A Selection
|
| Louise Bogan |
Collected Poems, 1923-1953
|
| Robinson Jeffers |
Hungerfield and other poems
|
| Archibald MacLeish |
Songs for Eve
|
| Phyllis McGinley |
The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley
|
| Merrill Moore |
The Verse Diary of a Psychiatrist
|
| LeRoy Smith |
A character invented
|
| May Swenson |
Another Animal
|
| William Carlos Williams |
The Desert Music and Other Poems
|
| Marya Zaturenska |
Selected Poems
|
|
|
|
Nominations 1953 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Archibald MacLeish |
Collected Poems, 1917-1952
|
| Stanley Burnshaw |
Early and Late Testament
|
| Thomas Hornsby Ferril |
New and selected poems
|
| Robert Hillyer |
The Suburb by the Sea
|
| Ernest Kroll |
Cape Horn and Other Poems
|
| W. S. Merwin |
A Mask for Janus
|
| Byron Herbert Reece |
A song of joy, and other poems
|
| Naomi Replansky |
Ring Song
|
| Kenneth Rexroth |
The dragon and the unicorn
|
| Jesse Stuart |
Kentucky is My Land
|
| Ridgely Torrence |
Poems
|
| Peter Viereck |
The First Morning
|
|
Nominations 1952 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Marianne Moore |
Collected Poems
|
| W. H. Auden |
Nones
|
| William Rose Benét |
The spirit of the scene
|
| Richard Eberhart |
Selected Poems
|
| Horace Gregory |
Selected poems
|
| Randall Jarrell |
The seven-league crutches
|
| Theodore Roethke |
Praise to the end
|
| Muriel Rukeyser |
Selected Poems
|
| William Carlos Williams |
Paterson","Collected Earlier Poems
|
|
Nominations 1951 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Wallace Stevens |
The Auroras of Autumn
|
|
Nominations 1950 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Carlos Williams |
Selected Poems","Paterson: Book III
|
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