First awarded 1922 | ||
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Winners & Nominees Ozone JournalPeter Balakian, Ozone Journal, Winner, Four-Legged Girl: PoemsDiane Seuss, Four-Legged Girl: Poems, Nominee, Alive: New and Selected PoemsElizabeth Willis, Alive: New and Selected Poems, Nominee, DigestGregory Pardlo, Digest, Winner, Reel to ReelAlan Shapiro, Reel to Reel, Nominee, Compass RoseArthur Sze, Compass Rose, Nominee, 3 SectionsVijay Seshadri, 3 Sections, Winner, The Big SmokeAdrian Matejka, The Big Smoke, Nominee, The Sleep of ReasonMorri Creech, The Sleep of Reason, Nominee, Stag's LeapSharon Olds, Stag's Leap, Winner, Collected PoemsJack Gilbert, Collected Poems, Nominee, The Abundance of NothingBruce Weigl, The Abundance of Nothing, Nominee, Life on MarsTracy K Smith, Life on Mars, Winner, How LongRon Padgett, How Long, Nominee, Core Samples from the WorldForrest Gander, Core Samples from the World, Nominee | ||
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry' is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.
Contents
- 1918 and 1919 special prizes
- Winners
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- Repeat winners
- References
Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.
1918 and 1919 special prizes
The 1918 and 1919 Pulitzers included Special Citations for poetry books, "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society", which the Pulitzer program now lists as Poetry prizes. See Special Pulitzers for Letters.
Winners
In its first 92 years to 2013, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded 92 times. Two were given in 2008, none in 1946. Robert Frost won the prize four times and several others won it more than once (below).
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Repeat winners
Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times from 1924 to 1943. Edwin Arlington Robinson won three prizes during the 1920s and several people have won two.
Carl Sandburg won one of the special prizes for his poetry in 1919 and won the Poetry Pulitzer in 1951.
References
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA