| Year | Title | Author |
|---|
| 2010 |
Versed |
Rae Armantrout |
| 2009 |
The Shadow of Sirius |
W.S. Merwin |
| 2008 |
Time and Materials |
Robert Hass |
| 2007 |
Native Guard |
Natasha Trethewey |
| 2006 |
Late Wife |
Claudia Emerson |
| 2005 |
Delights & Shadows |
Ted Kooser |
| 2004 |
Walking to Martha's Vineyard |
Franz Wright |
| 2003 |
Moy Sand and Gravel |
Paul Muldoon |
| 2002 |
Practical Gods |
Carl Dennis |
| 2001 |
Different Hours |
Stephen Dunn |
| 2000 |
Repair: Poems |
C. K. Williams |
| 1999 |
Blizzard of One |
Mark Strand |
| 1998 |
Black Zodiac |
Charles Wright |
| 1997 |
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems |
Lisel Mueller |
| 1996 |
The Dream of the Unified Field |
Jorie Graham |
| 1995 |
The Simple Truth |
Philip Levine |
| 1994 |
Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
| 1993 |
The Wild Iris |
Louise Gluck |
| 1992 |
Selected Poems |
James Tate |
| 1991 |
Near Changes |
Mona Van Duyn |
| 1990 |
The World Doesn't End |
Charles Simic |
| 1989 |
New and Collected Poems |
Richard Wilbur |
| 1988 |
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems |
William Meredith |
| 1987 |
Thomas and Beulah |
Rita Dove |
| 1986 |
The Flying Change |
Henry Taylor |
| 1985 |
Yin |
Carolyn Kizer |
| 1984 |
American Primitive |
Mary Oliver |
| 1983 |
Selected Poems |
Galway Kinnell |
| 1982 |
The Collected Poems |
Sylvia Plath |
| 1981 |
The Morning of the Poem |
James Schuyler |
| 1980 |
Selected Poems |
Donald Justice |
| 1979 |
Now and Then |
Robert Penn Warren |
| 1978 |
Collected Poems |
Howard Nemerov |
| 1977 |
Divine Comedies |
James Merrill |
| 1976 |
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
John Ashbery |
| 1975 |
Turtle Island |
Gary Snyder |
| 1974 |
The Dolphin |
Robert Lowell |
| 1973 |
Up Country |
Maxine Kumin |
| 1972 |
Collected Poems |
James Wright |
| 1971 |
The Carrier of Ladders |
W.S. Merwin |
| 1970 |
Untitled Subjects |
Richard Howard |
| 1969 |
Of Being Numerous |
George Oppen |
| 1968 |
The Hard Hours |
Anthony Hecht |
| 1967 |
Live or Die |
Anne Sexton |
| 1966 |
Selected Poems |
Richard Eberhart |
| 1965 |
77 Dream Songs |
John Berryman |
| 1964 |
At the End of the Open Road |
Louis Simpson |
| 1963 |
Pictures from Breughel |
William Carlos Williams |
| 1962 |
Poems |
Alan Dugan |
| 1961 |
Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades |
Phyllis McGinley |
| 1960 |
Heart's Needle |
W.D. Snodgrass |
| 1959 |
Selected Poems 1928-1958 Stanley Kunitz |
Stanley Kunitz |
| 1958 |
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 |
Robert Penn Warren |
| 1957 |
Things of This World |
Richard Wilbur |
| 1956 |
Poems-North & South |
Elizabeth Bishop |
| 1955 |
Collected Poems |
Wallace Stevens |
| 1954 |
The Waking |
Theodore Roethke |
| 1953 |
Collected Poems 1917-1952 |
Archibald MacLeish |
| 1952 |
Collected Poems |
Marianne Moore |
| 1951 |
Complete Poems |
Carl Sandburg |
| 1950 |
Annie Allen |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
| 1949 |
Terror and Decorum |
Peter Viereck |
| 1948 |
The Age of Anxiety |
W.H. Auden |
| 1947 |
Lord Weary's Castle |
Robert Lowell |
| 1946 |
No Award given |
| 1945 |
V-Letter and Other Poems |
Karl Shapiro |
| 1944 |
Western Star |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
| 1943 |
A Witness Tree |
Robert Frost |
| 1942 |
The Dust Which Is God |
William Rose Benet |
| 1941 |
Sunderland Capture |
Leornard Bacon |
| 1940 |
Collected Poems |
Mark Van Doren |
| 1939 |
Selected Poems |
John Gould Fletcher |
| 1938 |
Cold Morning Sky |
Marya Zaturenska |
| 1937 |
A Further Range |
Robert Frost |
| 1936 |
Strange Holiness |
Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
| 1935 |
Bright Ambush |
Audrey Wurdemann |
| 1934 |
Collected Verse |
Robert Hillyer |
| 1933 |
Conquistador |
Archibald MacLeish |
| 1932 |
The Flowering Stone |
George Dillon |
| 1931 |
Collected Poems |
Robert Frost |
| 1930 |
Selected Poems |
Conrad Aiken |
| 1929 |
John Brown's Body |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
| 1928 |
Tristram |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1927 |
Fiddler's Farewell |
Leonora Speyer |
| 1926 |
What's O'Clock |
Amy Lowell |
| 1925 |
The Man Who Died Twice |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1924 |
New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes |
Robert Frost |
| 1923 |
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, A Few Figs from Thistles, Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922, A Miscellany |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| 1922 |
Collected Poems |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1921 |
No Award given |
| 1920 |
No Award given |
| 1919 |
Corn Huskers |
Carl Sandburg |
| 1919 |
Old Road to Paradise |
Margaret Widdemer |
| 1918 |
Love Songs |
Sara Teasdale |
