Recreation

National Book Awards - Poetry

2008

2007

 

  • 2006 Splay Anthem Nathaniel Mackey
  • 2005 Migration: New and Selected Poems W.S. Merwin
  • 2004 Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 Jean Valentine
  • 2003 The Singing C. K. Williams
  • 2002 In the next galaxy Ruth Stone
  • 2001 Poems Seven: New and complete poetry Alan Dugan
  • 2000 Blessing the boats: New and selected poems 1988-2000 Lucille Clifton
  • 1999 Vice: new and selected poems Ai
  • 1998 This time: new and selected poems Gerald Stern
  • 1997 Effort at speech: new and selected poems William Meredith
  • 1996 Scrambled eggs and whiskey Hayden Carruth
  • 1995 Passing through Stanley Kunitz
  • 1994 Worshipful company of fletchers James Tate
  • 1993 Garbage A.R. Ammons
  • 1992 New and selected poems Mary Oliver
  • 1991 What work is Philip Levine