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1922 Collected poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Google Books)
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 (collected poems)
1924 New Hampshire : a poem with notes and grace notes by Robert Frost (collected poems)
1925 The man who died twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1926 What's o'clock by Amy Lowell (collected poems)
1927 Fiddler's farewell by Leonora Speyer
1928 Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1929 John Brown's body by Stephen Vincent Benet
1930 Selected poems by Conrad Aiken
1931 Collected poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost (collected poems)
1932 The flowering stone by George Dillon
1933 Conquistador by Archibald Macleish (collected poems)
1934 The collected verse of Robert Hillyer by Robert Hillyer (collected poems, 1961)
1935 Bright ambush, poems by Audrey Wurdemann
1936 Strange holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
1937 A further range. Book six. by Robert Frost
1938 Cold morning sky by Marya Zaturenska
1939 Selected poems by John Gould Fletcher
1940 Collected poems, 1922-1938 by Mark Van Doren
1941 Sunderland capture and other poems by Leonard Bacon
1942 The dust which is God, a novel in verse by William Rose Benet
1943 A witness tree by Robert Frost
1944 Western star by Stephen Vincent Benet
1945 V-letter and other poems by Karl Shapiro (collected poems)
1946 No Award
1947 Lord Weary's castle by Robert Lowell
1948 The age of anxiety, a baroque eclogue by W. H. Auden
1949 Terror and decorum; poems, 1940-1948 by Peter Viereck
1950 Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
1951 Complete poems by Carl Sandburg
1952 Collected poems by Marianne Moore
1953 Collected poems, 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1954 The waking : poems, 1933-1953 by Theodore Roethke
1955 Collected poems by Wallace Stevens
1956 Poems : North & south. A cold spring by Elizabeth Bishop
1957 Things of this world; poems by Richard Wilbur
1958 Promises : poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren (collected poems)
1959 Selected poems, 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
1960 Heart's needle by W. D. Snodgrass
1961 Times three : selected verse from three decades, with seventy new poems by Phyllis McGinley
1962 Poems by Alan Dugan
1963 Pictures from Brueghel, and other poems; collected poems, 1950-1962 by William Carlos Williams
1964 At the end of the open road : poems by Louis Simpson
1965 77 dream songs by John Berryman
1966 Selected poems by Richard Eberhart
1967 Live or die by Anne Sexton
1968 The hard hours; poems by Anthony Hecht
1969 Of being numerous by George Oppen
1970 Untitled subjects; poems by Richard Howard
1971 The carrier of ladders; poems by William S. Merwin
1972 Collected poems by James Arlington Wright
1973 Up country; poems of New England, new and selected by Maxine Kumin
1974 The dolphin by Robert Lowell
1975 Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
1976 Self-portrait in a convex mirror : poems by John Ashbery
1977 Divine comedies : poems by James Merrill
1978 Collected poems by Howard Nemerov
1979 Now and then : poems, 1976-1978 by Robert Penn Warren
1980 Selected poems by Donald Justice
1981 The morning of the poem : poems by James Schuyler
1982 The collected poems by Sylvia Plath
1983 Selected poems by Galway Kinnell
1984 American primitive : poems by Mary Oliver
1985 Yin : new poems by Carolyn Kizer
1986 The flying change : poems by Henry Taylor
1987 Thomas and Beulah : poems by Rita Dove
1988 Partial accounts : new and selected poems by William Meredith
1989 New and collected poems by Richard Wilbur
1990 The world doesn't end : prose poems by Charles Simic
1991 Near changes : poems by Mona Van Duyn
1992 Selected poems by James Tate
1993 The wild iris by Louise Gluck
1994 Neon vernacular : new and selected poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
1995 The simple truth : poems by Philip Levine
1996 The dream of the unified field : selected poems, 1974-1994 by Jorie Graham
1997 Alive together : new and selected poems by Lisel Mueller
1998 Black zodiac by Charles Wright
1999 Blizzard of one : poems by Mark Strand
2000 Repair by C. K. Williams
2001 Different hours : poems by Stephen Dunn
2002 Practical gods by Carl Dennis
2003 Moy sand and gravel by Paul Muldoon
2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard : poems by Franz Wright
2005 Delights & shadows : poems by Ted Kooser
2006 Late wife : poems by Claudia Emerson
2007 Native guard by Natasha Trethewey
2008 Time and materials : poems, 1997-2005 by Robert Hass
2009 The shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
2010 Versed by Rae Armantrout
2011 The best of it : new and selected poems by Kay Ryan
2012 Life on Mars : poems by Tracy K. Smith
2013 Stag's leap by Sharon Olds
2014 3 sections by Vijay Seshadri
2015 Digest by Gregory Pardlo
2016 Ozone journal by Peter Balakian
2017 Olio by Tyehimba Jess
2018 Half-light : collected poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart