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Award Winners: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Features titles of award winners such as the Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King awards. Also includes the call number if the Vise Library owns a particular item.

What is the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry?

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is for "a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author." --https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224

Award Winners

1918 Winner

Love Songs by Sara Teasdale; Hannah Wilson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781505288742
Publication Date: 2014-12-08
The Vise Library does not own this item

1919 Winners

Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg
ISBN: 9781514303498
Publication Date: 2015-06-11
The Vise Library does not own this item
The Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer
ISBN: 9781409900627
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1920 Winner

No award presented

1921 Winner

No award presented

1922 Winner

Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ISBN: 9781330815496
Publication Date: 2015-07-06
The Vise Library does not own this item

1923 Winner

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, Second April, and the Ballad of the Harp-Weaver) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN: 9781420924954
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1924 Winner

New Hampshire by Robert Frost; J. J. Lankes
ISBN: 9781140435969
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1925 Winner

The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Publication Date: 1924
The Vise Library does not own this item

1926 Winner

What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell
ISBN: 9780849534195
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1927 Winner

Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
Publication Date: 1927
The Vise Library does not own this item

1928 Winner

Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ISBN: 9781125335178
The Vise Library does not own this item

1929 Winner

John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet; Henry S. Canby (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780929587264
Publication Date: 1990-02-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1930 Winner

Conrad Aiken by Conrad Aiken; Harold Bloom (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780195165470
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1931 Winner

Selected Poems by Robert Frost
ISBN: 9781435126701
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1932 Winner

The Flowering Stone by George Dillon
Publication Date: 1932
The Vise Library does not own this item

1933 Winner

Conquistador by S. M. Stirling
ISBN: 9780451459336
Publication Date: 2004-03-02
The Vise Library does not own this item

1934 Winner

Collected Poems by Robert Hillyer
Publication Date: 1961
The Vise Library does not own this item

1935 Winner

Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann; William Rose Benet (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781258406523
Publication Date: 2012-06-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1936 Winner

Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
ISBN: 9780896210028
Publication Date: 1978-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1937 Winner

A Further Range by Robert Frost
The Vise Library does not own this item

1938 Winner

Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska
The Vise Library does not own this item

1939 Winner

Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher by John Fletcher; Lucas Carpenter
ISBN: 9780938626671
Publication Date: 1988-07-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1940 Winner

Collected and New Poems by Mark Van Doren
ISBN: 9780809000951
Publication Date: 1963-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1941 Winner

Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon
The Vise Library does not own this item

1942 Winner

The Dust Which Is God by William R. Benet
ISBN: 9780404200275
The Vise Library does not own this item

1943 Winner

A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
The Vise Library does not own this item

1944 Winner

Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet
ISBN: 9781473315273
Publication Date: 2014-04-16
The Vise Library does not own this item

1945 Winner

V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro
ISBN: 9781199902481
The Vise Library does not own this item

1946 Winner

No award presented

1947 Winner

Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell; Robert Lowell
ISBN: 9780156535007
Publication Date: 1968-03-20
The Vise Library does not own this item

1948 Winner

The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden; Alan Jacobs (Editor)
ISBN: 9780691138152
Publication Date: 2011-02-27
The Vise Library does not own this item

1949 Winner

Terror and Decorum by Peter R. Viereck
ISBN: 9780837162966
Publication Date: 1973-01-26
The Vise Library does not own this item

1950 Winner

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
ISBN: 9780060882969
Publication Date: 2006-07-03
The Vise Library does not own this item

1951 Winner

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg
ISBN: 9780151009961
Publication Date: 2003-01-06
The Vise Library does not own this item

1952 Winner

Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
The Vise Library does not own this item

1953 Winner

Collected Poems 1917 To 1982 by Archibald MacLeish; Richard B. McAdoo (Preface by)
ISBN: 9780395395691
Publication Date: 1985-12-09
The Vise Library does not own this item

1954 Winner

The Waking by Theodore Roethke
The Vise Library does not own this item

1955 Winner

The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens; John N. Serio (Editor); Christopher Beyers (Editor)
ISBN: 9781101911686
Publication Date: 2015-08-18
The Vise Library does not own this item

1956 Winner

Poems : North & South - A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop
The Vise Library does not own this item

1957 Winner

Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
The Vise Library does not own this item

1958 Winner

Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
ISBN: 1127368982
The Vise Library does not own this item

1959 Winner

Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
The Vise Library does not own this item

1960 Winner

Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
ISBN: 9780394722207
Publication Date: 1983-10-12
The Vise Library does not own this item

1961 Winner

Times Three by Phyllis McGinley
ISBN: 9780670715466
Publication Date: 1960-09-23
The Vise Library does not own this item

1962 Winner

Poems of Alan Dugan by Alan Dugan; D. Fitts (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780404538576
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1963 Winner

Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams
ISBN: 9780811202343
Publication Date: 1967-01-17
The Vise Library does not own this item

1964 Winner

At the End of the Open Road by Louis Simpson
ISBN: 9781334513770
Publication Date: 2016-12-04
The Vise Library does not own this item

1965 Winner

77 Dream Songs by John Berryman; Daniel Swift (Editor); Henri Cole (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780374534523
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
The Vise Library does not own this item

1966 Winner

New and Selected Poems, 1930-1990 by Richard Eberhart
ISBN: 9780929654911
Publication Date: 1995-07-28
The Vise Library does not own this item

1967 Winner

Live or Die by Anne Sexton
ISBN: 9780395081808
Publication Date: 1966-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1968 Winner

Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht; Leonard Baskin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689101151
Publication Date: 1967-08-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1969 Winner

Of Being Numerous by George Oppen
ISBN: 9780811203364
Publication Date: 1965-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1970 Winner

Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
ISBN: 0689101368
The Vise Library does not own this item

1971 Winner

The Carrier of Ladders by W. S. Merwin
ISBN: 9780689103438
Publication Date: 1970-08-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1972 Winner

Collected Poems by Robert Bly (Editor); Anne Wright (Editor); James Wright
ISBN: 9780819568618
Publication Date: 2007-06-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1973 Winner

Up Country by Maxine Kumin
ISBN: 9780060124731
Publication Date: 1972-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1974 Winner

The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
ISBN: 9780374511951
Publication Date: 1974-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1975 Winner

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder; Michael Corr (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780811205467
Publication Date: 1974-01-17
The Vise Library does not own this item

1976 Winner

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
ISBN: 9780140586688
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1977 Winner

Divine Comedies by James Ingram Merrill
ISBN: 9780689108303
Publication Date: 1977-03-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1978 Winner

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov
ISBN: 9780226572598
Publication Date: 1981-07-15
The Vise Library does not own this item

1979 Winner

Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
ISBN: 9780394501642
Publication Date: 1978-07-12
The Vise Library does not own this item

1980 Winner

Selected Poems by Donald Justice
ISBN: 9780689110207
Publication Date: 1979-11-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1981 Winner

The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
ISBN: 9780374516222
Publication Date: 1981-04-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1982 Winner

The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780061558894
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
The Vise Library does not own this item

1983 Winner

Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
The Vise Library does not own this item

1984 Winner

American Primitive by Mary Oliver
ISBN: 9780316650045
Publication Date: 1983-04-30
The Vise Library does not own this item

1985 Winner

Yin by Carolyn Kizer; Antonio Tabucchi; Tim Parks (Translator)
ISBN: 9780918526458
Publication Date: 1984-06-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1986 Winner

The Flying Change by Henry Taylor
ISBN: 9780807112649
Publication Date: 1985-12-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1987 Winner

Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
ISBN: 9780887480218
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1988 Winner

Partial Accounts by William Meredith
ISBN: 9780394751917
Publication Date: 1987-04-12
The Vise Library does not own this item

1989 Winner

New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
ISBN: 9780156654913
Publication Date: 1989-09-18
The Vise Library does not own this item

1990 Winner

The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
ISBN: 9780156983501
Publication Date: 1989-03-14
The Vise Library does not own this item

1991 Winner

Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
ISBN: 9780394584447
Publication Date: 1990-05-12
The Vise Library does not own this item

1992 Winner

Selected Poems by James Tate
ISBN: 9780819511928
Publication Date: 1991-06-14
The Vise Library does not own this item

1993 Winner

The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
ISBN: 9780880013345
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1994 Winner

Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa
ISBN: 9780819512116
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
The Vise Library does not own this item

1995 Winner

The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
ISBN: 9780679765844
Publication Date: 1996-09-03
The Vise Library does not own this item

1996 Winner

Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham
ISBN: 9780880014380
Publication Date: 1995-11-21
The Vise Library does not own this item

1997 Winner

Alive Together by Lisel Mueller
ISBN: 9780807121283
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

1998 Winner

Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
ISBN: 9780374525361
Publication Date: 1998-03-04
The Vise Library does not own this item

1999 Winner

Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
ISBN: 9780375701375
Publication Date: 2000-02-08
The Vise Library does not own this item

2000 Winner

Repair by C. K. Williams
ISBN: 9780374527068
Publication Date: 2000-06-15
The Vise Library does not own this item

2001 Winner

Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
ISBN: 9780393322323
Publication Date: 2002-01-17
The Vise Library does not own this item

2002 Winner

Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
ISBN: 9780141002309
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

2003 Winner

Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
ISBN: 9780374528843
Publication Date: 2004-04-15
The Vise Library does not own this item

2004 Winner

Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
ISBN: 9780375710018
Publication Date: 2005-04-05
The Vise Library does not own this item

2005 Winner

Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
ISBN: 9781556592010
Publication Date: 2004-05-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

2006 Winner

Late Wife by Claudia Emerson; Dave Smith (Editor)
ISBN: 9780807130841
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

2007 Winner

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Artist)
ISBN: 9780618872657
Publication Date: 2007-04-03
The Vise Library does not own this item

2008 Winners

Failure by Philip Schultz
ISBN: 9780156031288
Publication Date: 2009-04-06
The Vise Library does not own this item
Time and Materials by Robert Hass
ISBN: 9780061350283
Publication Date: 2008-10-07
The Vise Library does not own this item

2009 Winner

The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin
ISBN: 9781556593109
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
The Vise Library does not own this item

2010 Winner

Versed by Rae Armantrout
Call Number: 811.54 A72V
ISBN: 9780819570918
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2011 Winner

The Best of It by Kay Ryan
Call Number: 811.54 R988 BES
ISBN: 9780802119148
Publication Date: 2010-03-23
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2012 Winner

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Call Number: 811.6 S64L
ISBN: 9781555975845
Publication Date: 2011-05-10
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2013 Winner

Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
Call Number: 811.54 O44S
ISBN: 9780375712258
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2014 Winner

3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri
Call Number: 811.54 S49T
ISBN: 9781555977160
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2015 Winner

Digest by Gregory Pardlo
Call Number: 811.6 P22D
ISBN: 9781935536505
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2016 Winner

Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
Call Number: 811.54 B171 OZO
ISBN: 9780226207032
Publication Date: 2015-03-26
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2017 Winner

Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Call Number: 811.6 J58O
ISBN: 9781940696225
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2018 Winner

Half-Light by Frank Bidart
Call Number: 811.54 B584 HAL
ISBN: 9780374125950
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2019 Winner

Be With by Forrest Gander
ISBN: 9780811226059
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
The Vise Library does not own this item

2020 Winner

The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Call Number: 811.6 B878 TRA
ISBN: 9781556594861
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

2021 Winner