This prize has been awarded annually since 1922 (awards were given in 1918 and 1919 by The Poetry Society) for a book of poetry by an American poet.
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Alan Dugan (born 1923)
American poet.
- 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Poems
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Anthony Hecht (born 1923)
American poet.
- 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Hard Hours
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Carl Sandburg (born 1878, died 1967)
American poet and biographer.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, in 1918 for Corn Huskers and in 1951 for Complete Poems
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Charles Simic (born 1938)
American poet and translator.
- 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The World Doesn''t End
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Donald Justice (born 1925)
American poet.
- 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (born 1869, died 1935)
American poet.
- Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, in 1922 for Collected Poems, in 1925 for The Man Who Died Twice, and in 1928 for Tristram
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Gary Snyder (born 1930)
American poet and essayist.
- 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Turtle Island
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George Dillon (born 1906, died 1968)
American poet and editor.
- 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Flowering Stone
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George Oppen (born 1908, died 1984)
American poet.
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Of Being Numerous
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Henry Taylor (born 1942)
American poet.
- 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Flying Change
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Howard Nemerov (born 1920, died 1991)
American poet.
- 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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James Wright (born 1927, died 1980)
American poet.
- 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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James Schuyler (born 1923, died 1991)
American poet.
- 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Morning of the Poem
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James Tate (born 1943)
American poet.
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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John Gould Fletcher (born 1886, died 1950)
American poet and critic.
- 1939 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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John Ashbery (born 1927)
American poet.
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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John Berryman (born 1914, died 1972)
American poet.
- 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for 77 Dream Songs
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Leonard Bacon (born 1887, died 1954)
American poet.
- 1941 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Sunderland Capture
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Louis Simpson (born 1923)
American poet.
- 1964 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for At the End of the Open Road
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Mark Van Doren (born 1894, died 1972)
American poet and critic.
- 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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Mark Strand (born 1934)
American poet.
- 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Blizzard of One
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Peter Viereck (born 1916)
American poet.
- 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Terror and Decorum
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Richard Howard (born 1929)
American poet.
- 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Untitled Subjects
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Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
American poet.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, in 1957 for Things of This World and in 1989 for New and Collected Poems
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin (born 1892, died 1956)
American poet and biographer.
- 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Strange Holiness
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Robert Hillyer (born 1895, died 1961)
American poet.
- 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Collected Verse
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Robert Penn Warren (born 1905, died 1989)
American novelist and poet.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, in 1958 for Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 and in 1979 for Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978
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Robert Frost (born 1874, died 1963)
American poet.
- Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, in 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, in 1931 for Collected Poems, in 1937 for A Further Range, and in 1943 for A Witness Tree
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Robert Lowell (born 1917, died 1977)
American poet.
- 1947 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Lord Weary''s Castle
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Stephen Vincent Benet (born 1898, died 1943)
American poet and novelist.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry, in 1929 for John Brown''s Body and in 1944 for Western Star
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Theodore Roethke (born 1908, died 1963)
American poet.
- 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Waking
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William D. Snodgrass (born 1926)
American poet.
- 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Heart''s Needle
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Wallace Stevens (born 1879, died 1955)
American poet.
- 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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William Rose Benet (born 1886, died 1950)
American poet and journalist.
- 1942 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Dust Which Is God
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William Stanley ''W.S.'' Merwin (born 1927)
American poet.
- 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Carrier of Ladders
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William Meredith (born 1919)
American poet.
- 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
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William Carlos Williams (born 1883, died 1963)
American poet, short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and physician.
- 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Pictures from Breughel
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Yusef Komunyakaa
- 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
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James Merrill (born 1926, died 1995)
American poet.
- 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Divine Comedies
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Richard Eberhart (born 1904)
American poet.
- 1966 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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Philip Levine (born 1928)
American poet.
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Simple Truth
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Galway Kinnell (born 1927)
American poet.
- 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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Charles Wright (born 1935)
American poet.
- 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Black Zodiac
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Karl Shapiro (born 1913)
American poet and critic.
- 1945 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for V-Letter and Other Poems
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Stanley Kunitz (born 1905)
American poet.
- 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems 1928-1958
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Wystan Hugh ''W.H.'' Auden (born 1907, died 1973)
English poet.
- 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Age of Anxiety
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Archibald MacLeish (born 1892, died 1982)
American poet and playwright.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, in 1933 for Conquistador and in 1953 for Collected Poems 1917-1952
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Conrad Aiken (born 1889, died 1973)
American novelist and poet.
- 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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Charles Kenneth Williams
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry
