Pulitzer Prize : Poetry (1917- )

Winner

Selected Poems, by Donald Justice

Finalists

• Goshawk, Antelope, by David Smith

• Selected Poems, by Richard Hugo

Winner

The Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler

Finalists

• Selected Poems, by Mark Strand

• The Right Madness on Sky, by Richard Hugo

Winner

The Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath

Finalists

• Dream Flights, by Dave Smith

• The Southern Cross, by Charles Wright

Winner

Selected Poems, by Galway Kinnell

Finalists

• Country Music, Selected Early Poems, by Charles Wright

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

Winner

American Primitive, by Mary Oliver

Finalists

• Collected Poems, 1930-1982, by Josephine Miles

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

Winner

Yin, by Carolyn Kizer

Finalists

• Ground Work, by Robert Duncan

• The Other Side of the River, by Charles Wright

Winner

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

Winner

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

Winner

New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur

Finalists

• The One Day, by Donald Hall

• The River of Heaven, by Garrett Hongo