Pulitzer Prize: Poetry
- 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

