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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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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Amy Lowell (born 1874, died 1925)
American imagist poet and literary critic.
- 1926 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for What''s O''Clock
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Anne Sexton (born 1928, died 1974)
American confessional poet.
- 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Live or Die
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Audrey Wurdemann (born 1911, died 1960)
American poet.
- 1935 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Bright Ambush
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Carolyn Kizer (born 1925)
American poet.
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Yin
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (born 1892, died 1950)
American poet.
- 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
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Elizabeth Bishop (born 1911, died 1979)
American poet.
- 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Poems, North and South
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Gwendolyn Brooks (born 1917, died 2000)
American poet.
- 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Annie Allen
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Louise Gluck (born 1943)
American poet.
- 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Wild Iris
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Margaret Widdemer (born 1897, died 1978)
American poet.
- 1919 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Old Road to Paradise
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Marya Zaturenska (born 1902, died 1982)
American poet.
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Cold Morning Sky
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Maxine Kumin (born 1925)
American poet.
- 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Up Country
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Mona Van Duyn (born 1921)
American poet.
- 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Near Changes
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Phyllis McGinley (born 1905, died 1978)
American poet.
- 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Times Three
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Rita Dove (born 1952)
American poet.
- 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Thomas and Beulah
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Sara Teasdale (born 1884, died 1933)
American poet.
- 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Love Songs
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Sylvia Plath (born 1932, died 1963)
American poet who committed suicide one month after the publication of her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar.
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Collected Poems
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Lisel Mueller
American poet.
- 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
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Mary Oliver (born 1934)
American poet.
- 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for American Primitive
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Leonora Speyer (born 1872, died 1956)
American poet.
- 1927 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Fiddler''s Farewell
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Marianne Moore (born 1887, died 1972)
American poet.
- 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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Jorie Graham
American poet.
- 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, for The Dream of the Unified Field
