Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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