| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2013 |
|
Mary Szybist |
Incarnadine: Poems |
| 2012 |
|
David Ferry |
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations |
| 2011 |
|
Nikky Finney |
Head Off & Split |
| 2010 |
|
Terrance Hayes |
Lighthead |
| 2009 |
|
Keith Waldrop |
Transcendental studies |
| 2008 |
|
Mark Doty |
Fire to Fire |
| 2007 |
|
Robert Hass |
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 |
| 2006 |
|
Nathaniel Mackey |
Splay Anthem |
| 2005 |
|
W. S. Merwin |
Selected Poems |
| 2004 |
|
Jean Valentine |
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 |
| 2003 |
|
C. K. Williams |
The Singing |
| 2002 |
|
Ruth Stone |
In the Next Galaxy |
| 2001 |
|
Alan Dugan |
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
| 2000 |
|
Lucille Clifton |
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 |
| 1999 |
|
Ai |
Vice: New & Selected Poems |
| 1998 |
|
Gerald Stern |
This Time: New and Selected Poems |
| 1997 |
|
William Morris Meredith |
Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems |
| 1996 |
|
Hayden Carruth |
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey |
| 1995 |
|
Stanley Kunitz |
Passing Through: The Later Poems |
| 1994 |
|
James Tate |
A Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
| 1993 |
|
A. R. Ammons |
Garbage |
| 1992 |
|
Mary Oliver |
New and Selected Poems |
| 1991 |
|
Philip Levine |
What Work Is |
| 1983 |
|
Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems |
| 1983 |
|
Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems |
| 1982 |
|
William Bronk |
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems |
| 1981 |
|
Lisel Mueller |
The Need to Hold Still |
| 1980 |
|
Philip Levine |
Ashes: Poems New and Old |
| 1979 |
|
James Merrill |
Mirabell: Books of Number |
| 1978 |
|
Howard Nemerov |
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov |
| 1977 |
|
Richard Eberhart |
Collected Poems, 1930-1976 |
| 1976 |
|
John Ashbery |
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| 1975 |
|
Marilyn Hacker |
Presentation Piece |
| 1974 |
|
Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 |
| 1974 |
|
Allen Ginsberg |
The Fall of America: Poems of These States |
| 1973 |
|
A. R. Ammons |
Collected Poems, 1951-1971 |
| 1972 |
|
Howard Moss |
Selected Poems |
| 1972 |
|
Frank O'Hara |
The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara |
| 1971 |
|
Mona Van Duyn |
To See, To Take |
| 1970 |
|
Elizabeth Bishop |
The Complete Poems |
| 1969 |
|
John Berryman |
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
| 1968 |
|
Robert Bly |
The Light Around the Body |
| 1967 |
|
James Merrill |
Nights and Days |
| 1966 |
|
James Dickey |
Buckdancer's Choice |
| 1965 |
|
Theodore Roethke |
The Far Field |
| 1964 |
|
John Crowe Ransom |
Selected Poems |
| 1963 |
|
William Stafford |
Traveling Through the Dark |
| 1962 |
|
Alan Dugan |
Poems |
| 1961 |
|
Randall Jarrell |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| 1960 |
|
Robert Lowell |
Life Studies |
| 1959 |
|
Theodore Roethke |
Words for the Wind |
| 1958 |
|
Robert Penn Warren |
Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 |
| 1957 |
|
Richard Wilbur |
Things of This World |
| 1956 |
|
W. H. Auden |
The Shield of Achilles |
| 1955 |
|
Wallace Stevens |
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
| 1954 |
|
Conrad Aiken |
Collected Poems |
| 1953 |
|
Archibald MacLeish |
Collected Poems, 1917-1952 |
| 1952 |
|
Marianne Moore |
Collected Poems |
| 1951 |
|
Wallace Stevens |
The Auroras of Autumn |
| 1950 |
|
William Carlos Williams |
Paterson: Book III, Selected Poems |
