Pulitzer Prize: Poetry

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

• 2012 Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
• 2011 The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
• 2010 Versed by Rae Armantrout
• 2009 The Shadow of Sirius W.S. Merwin
• 2008 Time and Materials Robert Hass
  and Failure Philip Schultz
• 2007 Native Guard Natasha Trethewey
• 2006 Late Wife Claudia Emerson
• 2005 Delights and 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
• 1983Selected 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
• 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
• 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 Edna St. Vincent Millay in "American Poetry 1922 A Miscellany"
• 1922 Collected poems Edwin Arlington Robinson
• 1919 Corn huskers Carl Sandburg and Old road to Paradise Margaret Widdemer
• 1918 Love songs Sara Teasdale