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Winners of the National Book Award for Poetry
This prize has been awarded annually since 1950 by the American Association of Publishers.
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Howard Nemerov (born 1920, died 1991)
American poet.
- 1978 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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James Tate (born 1943)
American poet.
- 1994 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Worshipful Company of Fletchers
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John Ashbery (born 1927)
American poet.
- 1976 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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John Berryman (born 1914, died 1972)
American poet.
- 1969 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
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Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
American poet.
- 1957 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Things of this World
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Robert Penn Warren (born 1905, died 1989)
American novelist and poet.
- 1958 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
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Robert Lowell (born 1917, died 1977)
American poet.
- 1960 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Life Studies
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Theodore Roethke (born 1908, died 1963)
American poet.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Poetry, in 1959 for Words for the Wind and in 1965 for The Far Field
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Wallace Stevens (born 1879, died 1955)
American poet.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Poetry, in 1951 for The Auroras of Autumn and in 1955 for Collected Poems
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William Meredith (born 1919)
American poet.
- 1997 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
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William Carlos Williams (born 1883, died 1963)
American poet, short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and physician.
- 1950 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems
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Randall Jarrell (born 1914, died 1965)
American poet.
- 1961 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for The Woman at the Washington Zoo
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William Stafford
American poet.
- 1963 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Traveling Through the Dark
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James Dickey (born 1923)
American poet and novelist.
- 1966 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Buckdancer''s Choice
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James Merrill (born 1926, died 1995)
American poet.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Poetry, in 1967 for Nights and Days and in 1979 for Mirabell: Books of Number
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Robert Bly (born 1926)
American poet.
- 1968 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for The Light Around the Body
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Howard Moss
American poet.
- 1972 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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Archie Randolph ''A.R.'' Ammons (born 1926)
American poet.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Poetry, in 1973 for Collected Poems: 1951-1971 and in 1993 for Garbage
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Allen Ginsberg (born 1926, died 1997)
American poet.
- 1974 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-71
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Richard Eberhart (born 1904)
American poet.
- 1977 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems, 1930-1976
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Philip Levine (born 1928)
American poet.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Poetry, in 1980 for Ashes and in 1991 for What Work Is
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William Bronk (born 1918)
American poet.
- 1982 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Life Supports
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Galway Kinnell (born 1927)
American poet.
- 1983 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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Charles Wright (born 1935)
American poet.
- 1984 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Country Music
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John Crowe Ransom (born 1888, died 1974)
American poet and critic.
- 1964 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Selected Poems
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Stanley Kunitz (born 1905)
American poet.
- 1996 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
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Wystan Hugh ''W.H.'' Auden (born 1907, died 1973)
English poet.
- 1956 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for The Shield of Achilles
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Archibald MacLeish (born 1892, died 1982)
American poet and playwright.
- 1953 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems 1917-1952
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Conrad Aiken (born 1889, died 1973)
American novelist and poet.
- 1954 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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Hayden Carruth
American poet.
- 1996 American Book Award winner for Poetry, for Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995
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Gerald Stern (born 1925)
American author
- 1998 National Book Award winner for Poetry for This Time: New and Selected Poems
Winners of the National Book Award for Poetry
This prize has been awarded annually since 1950 by the American Association of Publishers.
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Elizabeth Bishop (born 1911, died 1979)
American poet.
- 1970 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for The Complete Poems
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Mona Van Duyn (born 1921)
American poet.
- 1971 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for To See, To Take
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Adrienne Rich (born 1929)
American poet.
- 1974 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-72
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Marilyn Hacker
American poet.
- 1975 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Presentation Piece
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Lisel Mueller
American poet.
- 1981 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for The Need to Hold Still
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Mary Oliver (born 1934)
American poet.
- 1992 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for New and Selected Poems
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Marianne Moore (born 1887, died 1972)
American poet.
- 1952 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Collected Poems
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Florence Anthony Ai (born 1947)
American poet
- 1999 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Vice: new and selected poems
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Lucille Clifton (born 1936)
African-American poet
- 2000 National Book Award winner for Poetry, for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
