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Award-Winning Books: Pulitzer 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
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

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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

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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: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden; Alan Jacobs (Editor)
ISBN: 9780691138152

Publication Date: 2011-02-27

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1949 Winner

Terror and Decorum by Peter R. Viereck
ISBN: 9780837162966

Publication Date: 1973-01-26

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1950 Winner

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
ISBN: 9780060882969

Publication Date: 2006-07-03

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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
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

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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

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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

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2012 Winner

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Call Number: 811.6 S64L

ISBN: 9781555975845

Publication Date: 2011-05-10

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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

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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

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2017 Winner

Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Call Number: 811.6 J58O

ISBN: 9781940696225

Publication Date: 2016-04-05

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2018 Winner

Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 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
Call Number: 811.54 G195 BE

ISBN: 9780811226059

Publication Date: 2018-08-28

Located in the stacks of the Vise Library

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

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
ISBN: 9781644450147

Publication Date: 2020-03-03

The Vise Library does not own this item

2022 Winner

Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss
ISBN: 9781644450451

Publication Date: 2021-03-02

The Vise Library does not own this item.

2023 Winner

Then the War by Carl Phillips
ISBN: 9780374607678

Publication Date: 2023-02-14

The Vise Library does not own this item.

2024 Winner

Tripas by Brandon Som
ISBN: 9780820363509

Publication Date: 2023-03-01

The Vise Library does not own this item.

"Half Light" by Frank Bidart - 2018 Winner