Pulitzer Prize

Winner

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

Finalists

• Dunce by Mary Ruefle

• Only as the Day Is Long : New and Selected Poems by Dorianne Laux

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Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Finalists

• A Treatise on Stars by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

• In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

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Versed, by Rae Armantrout

Finalists

• Inseminating the Elephant, by Lucia Perillo

• Tryst, by Angie Estes

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The Best of It : New and Selected Poems, by Kay Ryan

Finalists

• Break the Glass, by Jean Valentine

• The Common Man, by Maurice Manning

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Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith

Finalists

• Core Samples from the World, by Forrest Gander

• How Long, by Ron Padgett

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Stag's Leap, by Sharon Olds

Finalists

• Collected Poems, by Jack Gilbert

• The Abundance of Nothing, by Bruce Weigl

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3 Sections, by Vijay Seshadri

Finalists

• The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka

• The Sleep of Reason, by Morri Creech

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Digest, by Gregory Pardlo

Finalists

• Compass Rose, by Arthur Sze

• Reel to Reel, by Alan Shapiro

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Ozone Journal, by Peter Balakian

Finalists

• Allive : New and Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Willis

• Four-Legged Girl, by Diane Seuss

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Olio, by Tyehimba Jess

Finalists

• Collected Poems : 1950-2012, by Adrienne Rich

• XX, by Campbell McGrath

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Half-light : Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart

Finalists

• Incendiary Art, by Patricia Smith

• semiautomatic, by Evie Shockley

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Be With, by Forrest Gander

Finalists

• feeld, by Jos Charles

• Like, by A. E. Stallings

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Repair, by C. K. Williams

Finalists

• Elegy for the Southern Drawl, by Rodney Jones

• Midnight Salvage : Poems 1995-1998, by Adrienne Rich

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Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn

Finalists

• Pursuit of a Wound, by Syndey Lea

• The Other Lover, by Bruce Smith

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Practical Gods, by Carl Dennis

Finalists

• The Beforelife, by Franz Wright

• The Seven Ages, by Louise Gluck

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Moy Sand and Gravel, by Paul Muldoon

Finalists

• Hazmat, by J. D. McClatchy

• Music Like Dirt, by Frank Bidart

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Walking to Martha's Vineyard, by Franz Wright

Finalists

• Eyeshot, by Heath McHugh

• Middle Earth, by Henri Cole

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Delights & Shadows, by Ted Kooser

Finalists

• Search Party : Collected Poems, by William Matthews

• The Orchard, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson

Finalists

• American Subline, by Elizabeth Alexander

• Elegy on Toy Piano, by Dean Young

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Native Guard, by Natasha Tretheway

Finalists

• Interrogation Palace : New & Selected Poems 1982-2004, by David Wojahn

• The Republic of Poetry, by Martin Espada

Winners

• Failure, by Philip Schultz

• New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur

Finalist

• Messenger : New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006, by Ellen Bryan Voigt

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The Shadow of Sirius, by W. S. Merwin

Finalists

• Watching the Spring Festival, by Frank Bidart

• What Love Comes To : New & Selected Poems, by Ruth Stone

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The World Doesn't End, by Charles Simic

Finalists

• Selected and Last Poems, by Paul Zweig

• Time's Power, by Adrienne Rich

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Near Changes, by Mona Van Duyn

Finalists

• Leaving Another Kingdom, by Gerald Stern

• The Transparent Man, by Anthony Hecht

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Selected Poems, by James Tate

Finalists

• An Atlas of the Difficult World, by Adrienne Rich

• Selected Poems, by Robert Creeley

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The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück

Finalists

• Hotel Lautreamont, by John Ashbery

• Selected Poems 1946-1985, by James Merrill

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Neon Vernacular : New and Selected Poems, by Yusef Komunyakaa

Finalists

• Bright Existence, by Brenda Hillman

• The Metamorphoses of Ovid, by Allen Mandelbaum

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The Simple Truth, by Philip Levine

Finalists

• Cosmopolitan Greetings : Poems 1986-1992, by Allen Ginsberg

• On the Great Atlantic Rainway : Selected Poems 1950-1988 and One Train, by Kenneth Koch

Winner

The Dream of the Unified Field, by Jorie Graham

Finalists

• Chickamauga, by Charles Wright

• New and Selected Poems, by Donald Justice

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Alive Together : New and Selected Poems, by Lisel Mueller

Finalists

• The Figured Wheel, by Robert Pinsky

• The Willow Grove, by Laurie Sheck

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Black Zodiac, by Charles Wright

Finalists

• Desire, by Frank Bidart

• The Vigil, by C. K. Williams

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Blizzard of One, by Mark Strand

Finalists

• Going Fast, by Frederick Seidel

• Mysteries of Small Houses, by Alice Notley

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Selected Poems, by Donald Justice

Finalists

• Goshawk, Antelope, by David Smith

• Selected Poems, by Richard Hugo

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The Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler

Finalists

• Selected Poems, by Mark Strand

• The Right Madness on Sky, by Richard Hugo

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The Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath

Finalists

• Dream Flights, by Dave Smith

• The Southern Cross, by Charles Wright

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Selected Poems, by Galway Kinnell

Finalists

• Country Music, Selected Early Poems, by Charles Wright

• Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982, by Jack Gilbert

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American Primitive, by Mary Oliver

Finalists

• Collected Poems, 1930-1982, by Josephine Miles

• Weather-Fear : New and Selected Poems, by John Engels

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Yin, by Carolyn Kizer

Finalists

• Ground Work, by Robert Duncan

• The Other Side of the River, by Charles Wright

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The Flying Change, by Henry Taylor

Finalists

• Saints and Strangers, by Andrew Hudgins

• Selected Poems, 1963-1983, by Charles Simic

Winner

Thomas and Beulah, by Rita Dove

Finalists

• The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth, by Hayden Carruth

• Unending Blues, by Charles Simic

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Partial Accounts : New and Selected Poems, by William Meredith

Finalists

• Flesh and Blood, by C. K. Williams

• Good Woman : Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next : New Poems, by Lucille Clifton

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New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur

Finalists

• The One Day, by Donald Hall

• The River of Heaven, by Garrett Hongo

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Untitled Subjects, by Richard Howard

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The Carrier of Ladders, by William S. Merwin

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Collected Poems, by James Wright

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Up Country, by Maxine Kumin

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The Dolphin, by Robert Lowell

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Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery

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Divine Comedies, by James Merrill

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Collected Poems, by Howard Nemerov

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Now and Then, by Robert Penn Warren

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Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass

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Times Three : Selected Verse From Three Decades, by Phyllis McGinley

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Poems,  by Alan Dugan

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Pictures from Brueghel, by William Carlos Williams

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At the End of the Open Road, by Louis Simpson

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77 Dream Songs, by John Berryman

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Selected Poems, by Richard Eberhart

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Live or Die, by Anne Sexton

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The Hard Hours, by Anthony Hecht

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Of Being Numerous, by George Oppen

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Annie Allen, by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Complete Poems, by Carl Sandburg

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Collected Poems, by Marianne Moore

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Collected Poems 1917-1952, by Archibald Macleish

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The Waking, by Theodore Roethke

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Collected Poems, by Wallace Stevens

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Poems : North & South - A Cold Spring, by Elizabeth Bishop

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Things of This World, by Richard Wilbur

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Promises : Poems 1954-1956, by Robert Penn Warren

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Selected Poems 1928-1958, by Stanley Kunitz

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Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren

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Sunderland Capture, by Leonard Bacon

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A Witness Tree, by Robert Frost

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Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Benet

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V-Letter and Other Poems, by Karl Shapiro

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Lord Weary's Castle, by Robert Lowell

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The Age of Anxiety, by W. H. Auden

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Terror and Decorum, by Peter Viereck

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The Dust Which is God, by William Rose Benet

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No award given

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Selected Poems, by Conrad Aiken

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Collected Poems, by Robert Frost

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The Flowering Stone, by George Dillon

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Conquistador, by Archibald Macleish

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Collected Verse, by Robert Hillyer

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Bright Ambus, by Audrey Wurdemann

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Strange Holiness, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

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A Further Range, by Robert Frost

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Cold Morning Sky, by Marya Zaturenska

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Selected Poems, by John Gould Fletcher

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Collected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

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The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver : a few figs from thistles : eight sonnets in American poetry, 1922, a miscellany, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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New Hampshire : a poem with notes and grace notes, by Robert Frost

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The Man Who Died Twice, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

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What's O'Clock, by Amy Lowell

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Fiddler's Farewell, by Leonora Speyer

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Tristram, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

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John Browns Body, by Stephen Vincent Benet

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Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale

Winner

• Corn Huskers, by Carl Sandburg

• Old Road to Paradise, by Margaret Widdemer