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				Poetry 
				
				  
				
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				2005 - 
				Delights & Shadows 
				by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				The Orchard 
				by Brigit Pegeen Kelly (BOA 
				Editions, Ltd.) 
				
				
				Search Party: Collected Poems 
				by the late William Matthews (Houghton Mifflin 
				
				
				2004  - 
				Walking to Martha's Vineyard 
				by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Middle Earth 
				by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 
				
				
				Eyeshot 
				by Heather McHugh (Wesleyan University Press) 
				
				
				2003 - 
				Moy Sand & Gravel by Paul 
				Muldoon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Music Like Dirt by Frank Bidart 
				(Sarabande Books) 
				
				
				Hazmat by J.D. McClatchy (Alfred 
				A.Knopf) 
				
				
				2002 - 
				Practical Gods by Carl Dennis 
				(Penguin Books) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				The Seven Ages by Louise Glück 
				(The ECCO Press/HarperCollins) 
				
				
				The Beforelife by Franz Wright 
				(Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				2001 - 
				Different Hours by Stephen Dunn 
				(W.W. Norton & Company) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Pursuit of a Wound by Sydney Lea 
				(University of Illinois 
				Press) 
				
				
				The Other Lover by Bruce Smith 
				(The University of 
				Chicago Press) 
				
				  
				
				
				2000 - 
				Repair by C.K. Williams (Farrar, 
				Straus & Giroux) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Elegy for the Southern Drawl by 
				Rodney Jones (Houghton Mifflin) 
				
				
				Midnight Salvage: Poems 
				1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton) 
				
				
				1999 - 
				Blizzard of One by Mark Strand 
				(Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Mysteries of Small Houses by 
				Alice Notley (Penguin Poets) 
				
				
				Going Fast by Frederick Seidel 
				(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 
				
				
				1998 - 
				Black Zodiac by Charles Wright 
				(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)           
				 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Desire by Frank Bidart (Farrar, 
				Straus & Giroux) 
				
				
				The Vigil by C.K. Williams 
				(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 
				
				
				1997 - 
				Alive Together: New & Selected 
				Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				The Figured Wheel by Robert 
				Pinsky (Farrar Straus Giroux) 
				
				
				The Willow Grove by Laurie Sheck 
				(Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				1996 - 
				The Dream of the Unified Field 
				by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				New & Selected Poems by Donald 
				Justice (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				Chickamauga by Charles Wright 
				(Farrar Straus & Giroux) 
				
				  
				
				
				1995 - 
				The Simple Truth by Philip 
				Levine (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 
				1986-1992 by Allen Ginsberg (HarperCollins) 
				
				
				On The Great Atlantic Rainway: 
				Selected Poems 1950-1988 & One Train by Kenneth Koch (Alfred A. 
				Knopf) 
				
				
				1994 - 
				Neon Vernacular: New & Selected 
				Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press/University 
				Press of New England)  
				 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Bright Existence by Brenda 
				Hillman (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New 
				England) 
				
				
				The Metamorphoses of Ovid by 
				translated by Allen Mandelbaum (Harcourt Brace & Company) 
				
				
				1993 - 
				The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck 
				(The Ecco Press) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Hotel Lautreamont by John 
				Ashbery (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				Selected Poems 1946-1985 by 
				James Merrill (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				1992 - 
				Selected Poems by James Tate (Wesleyan 
				University Press)        
				 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Selected Poems by Robert Creeley 
				(University of California 
				Press) 
				
				
				An Atlas of the Difficult World 
				by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton & Company) 
				
				  
				
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				1991 - 
				 
				
				Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn 
				(Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				The Transparent Man by Anthony 
				Hecht (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				Leaving Another Kingdom by 
				Gerald Stern (Harper & Row) 
				
				  
				
				
				1990 - 
				The World Doesn't End by Charles 
				Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Time's Power by Adrienne Rich 
				(W.W. Norton & Company) 
				
				
				Selected & Last Poems by the 
				late Paul Zweig (Wesleyan University Press) 
				
				
				1989 - 
				New & Collected Poems by Richard 
				Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				The One Day by Donald Hall 
				(Ticknor & Fields) 
				
				
				The River 
				of Heaven by Garrett 
				Hongo (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				1988 - 
				Partial Accounts: New & Selected 
				Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Good Woman: Poems & a Memoir 
				1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton (BOA 
				Editions) 
				
				
				Flesh & Blood by C.K. Williams 
				(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 
				
				
				1987 - 
				Thomas & Beulah by Rita Dove 
				(Carnegie-Mellon University Press)        
				 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				The Selected Poetry of Hayden 
				Carruth by Hayden Carruth (Macmillan) 
				
				
				Unending Blues by Charles Simic 
				(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 
				
				
				1986. - 
				The Flying Change by Henry 
				Taylor (Louisiana State University Press) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Saints & Strangers by Andrew 
				Hudgins (Houghton Mifflin) 
				
				
				Selected Poems, 1963-1983 by 
				Charles Simic (George Braziller) 
				
				
				1985 - 
				Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA 
				Editions) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				Ground Work by Robert Duncan (New Directions) 
				
				
				The Other Side of the River by 
				Charles Wright (Random House) 
				
				  
				
				
				1984 - 
				American Primitive by Mary 
				Oliver (Atlantic-Little, Brown) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Weather-Fear: New & Selected 
				Poems by John Engels (University of Georgia) 
				
				
				Collected Poems, 1930-1982 by 
				Josephine Miles (University of Illinois) 
				
				
				1983 - 
				Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell 
				(Houghton Mifflin) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Monolithos, Poems, 1962 & 1982 
				by Jack Gilbert (Knopf) 
				
				
				Country Music, Selected Early 
				Poems by Charles Wright (Wesleyan University Press) 
				
				
				1982 - 
				The Collected Poems by the late 
				Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row) 
				 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Dream Flights by Dave Smith 
				(University of Illinois) 
				
				
				The Southern Cross by Charles 
				Wright (Random House) 
				
				
				1981 - 
				The Morning of the Poem by James 
				Schuyler (Farrar, Straus) 
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				The Right Madness on Skye by 
				Richard Hugo (Norton) 
				
				
				Selected Poems by Mark Strand 
				(Atheneum) 
				
				
				1980. - 
				Selected Poems by Donald Justice 
				(Atheneum)    
				
				
				(Nominated Finalists) 
				
				
				Selected Poems by Richard Hugo 
				(Norton) 
				
				
				Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith 
				(University of Illinois) 
				
				
				1979 - 
				Now & Then by Robert Penn Warren 
				(Random) 
				
				  
				
				
				1979 - 
				Now & Then by Robert Penn Warren 
				(Random) 
				
				
				1978 - 
				Collected Poems by Howard 
				Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago) 
				
				
				1977 - 
				Divine Comedies by James Merrill 
				(Atheneum 
				
				
				1976 - 
				Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 
				by John Ashbery (Viking) 
				
				
				1975 - 
				Turtle Island by Gary Snyder 
				(New Directions)     
				
				
				1974 - 
				The Dolphin by Robert Lowell 
				(Farrar) 
				
				
				1973 - 
				Up Country by Maxine Kumin 
				(Harper) 
				  
				
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				1972 - 
				Collected Poems by James Wright 
				(Wesleyan 
				Univ. Press) 
				
				
				1971 - 
				The Carrier of Ladders by 
				William S. Merwin (Atheneum) 
				
				
				1970 - 
				Untitled Subjects by Richard 
				Howard (Atheneum) 
				
				
				1969 - 
				Of Being Numerous by George 
				Oppen (New Directions) 
				
				
				1968 
				- The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum) 
				
				
				1967 - 
				Live or Die by Anne Sexton 
				(Houghton) 
				
				
				1966 - 
				Selected Poems by Richard 
				Eberhart (New Directions) 
				
				
				1965 - 
				77 Dream Songs by John Berryman 
				(Farrar) 
				
				
				1964 - 
				At The End Of The Open Road by 
				Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press) 
				
				
				1963 - 
				Pictures from Brueghel 
				by the late William Carlos Williams (New Directions) 
				
				
				1962 - 
				Poems by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. 
				Press) 
				
				
				1961 - 
				Times Three: Selected Verse From 
				Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking) 
				
				
				1960 - 
				Heart's Needle by W. D. 
				Snodgrass (Knopf) 
				
				
				1959 - 
				Selected Poems 1928-1958 by 
				Stanley Kunitz (Little) 
				
				
				1958 - 
				Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by 
				Robert Penn Warren (Random) 
				
				
				1957 - 
				Things of This World by Richard 
				Wilbur (Harcourt) 
				
				
				1956 - 
				Poems - North & South 
				by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton) 
				
				
				1955 - 
				Collected Poems 
				by Wallace Stevens (Knopf) 
				
				
				1954 - 
				The Waking by Theodore Roethke 
				(Doubleday) 
				
				
				1953 - 
				Collected Poems 1917-1952 by 
				Archibald MacLeish (Houghton) 
				
				
				1952 - 
				Collected Poems by Marianne 
				Moore (Macmillan) 
				
				
				1951 - 
				Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg 
				(Harcourt) 
				
				
				1950 - 
				Annie Allen 
				by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper) 
				
				
				1949 - 
				Terror & Decorum by Peter 
				Viereck (Scribner) 
				
				
				1948 - 
				The Age of Anxiety by W. H. 
				Auden (Random) 
				
				
				1947 - 
				Lord Weary's Castle by Robert 
				Lowell (Harcourt) 
				
				
				1945 - 
				V-Letter & Other Poems by Karl 
				Shapiro (Reynal) 
				
				
				1944 - 
				Western Star by the late Stephen 
				Vincent Benet (Farrar) 
				
				
				1943 - 
				A Witness Tree by Robert Frost 
				(Holt) 
				
				
				1942 - 
				The Dust Which Is God by William 
				Rose Benet (Dodd) 
				
				
				1941 - 
				Sunderland 
				Capture by Leonard Bacon (Harper) 
				
				
				1940 - 
				Collected Poems by Mark Van 
				Doren (Holt) 
				
				
				1939 - 
				Selected Poems by John Gould 
				Fletcher (Farrar) 
				
				
				1938 - 
				Cold Morning Sky 
				by Marya Zaturenska (Macmillan) 
				
				
				1937 - 
				A Further Range by Robert Frost 
				(Holt) 
				
				
				1936 - 
				Strange Holiness by Robert P. 
				Tristram Coffin (Macmillan 
				
				
				1935 - 
				Bright Ambush by Audrey 
				Wurdemann (John Day) 
				
				
				1934 - 
				Collected Verse by Robert 
				Hillyer (Knopf) 
				
				
				1933 - 
				Conquistador by Archibald 
				Macleish (Houghton) 
				
				
				1932 - 
				The Flowering Stone by George 
				Dillon (Viking 
				
				
				1931 - 
				Collected Poems by Robert Frost 
				(Holt) 
				
				
				1930 - 
				Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken 
				(Scribner) 
				
				
				1929 - 
				John Browns Body by Stephen 
				Vincent Benet (Farrar) 
				
				
				1928 - 
				Tristram by Edwin Arlington 
				Robinson (Macmillan) 
				
				
				1927 - 
				Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora 
				Speyer (Knopf) 
				
				
				1926 - 
				What's O'Clock by the late Amy 
				Lowell (Houghton) 
				
				
				1925 - 
				The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin
				Arlington 
				Robinson (Macmillan) 
				
				
				1924 - 
				New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes 
				& Grace Notes by Robert Frost (Holt) 
				
				
				1923 - 
				The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A 
				Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. 
				A Miscellany by Edna St. 
				Vincent Millay (Harper) 
				
				
				1922 - 
				Collected Poems by Edwin 
				Arlington Robinson (Macmillan) 
				
				
				1919 - 
				Carl Sandburg; Corn Huskers 
				This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry 
				Society. 
				
				
				Margaret Widdemer; Old Road to 
				Paradise 
				This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry 
				Society 
				
				
				1918 - 
				Sara Teasdale; Love Songs 
				This award was made possible by a special grant from The Poetry 
				Society. 
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