ShelfEvidentNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry — Complete Winners List
51 years of winners · National Book Critics Circle · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page
| 2024 | Anne Carson | New Directions | |
| 2023 | Kim Hyesoon | New Directions | |
| 2022 | — | University of Pittsburgh Press | |
| 2021 | Diane Seuss | Graywolf Press | |
| 2020 | — | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2019 | Morgan Parker | Tin House Books | |
| 2018 | Ada Limón | Milkweed Editions | |
| 2017 | Layli Long Soldier | Graywolf Press | |
| 2016 | — | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2015 | Ross Gay | University of Pittsburgh Press | |
| 2014 | Claudia Rankine | Graywolf Press | |
| 2013 | Frank Bidart | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2012 | — | Copper Canyon Press | |
| 2011 | — | Copper Canyon Press | |
| 2010 | — | Copper Canyon Press | |
| 2009 | Rae Armantrout | — | |
| 2008 | Juan Felipe Herrera | — | |
| 2007 | Mary Jo Bang | — | |
| 2006 | Troy Jollimore | — | |
| 2005 | Jack Gilbert | — | |
| 2004 | Adrienne Rich | — | |
| 2003 | Susan Stewart | — | |
| 2002 | B.H. Fairchild | — | |
| 2001 | Albert Goldbarth | — | |
| 2000 | Judy Jordan | — | |
| 1999 | Ruth Stone | — | |
| 1998 | Marie Ponsot | — | |
| 1997 | Charles Wright | — | |
| 1996 | Robert Hass | — | |
| 1995 | William Matthews | — | |
| 1994 | Mark Rudman | — | |
| 1993 | Mark Doty | — | |
| 1992 | Hayden Carruth | — | |
| 1991 | Albert Goldbarth | — | |
| 1990 | Amy Gerstler | — | |
| 1989 | Rodney Jones | — | |
| 1988 | Donald Hall | — | |
| 1987 | C.K. Williams | — | |
| 1986 | Edward Hirsch | — | |
| 1985 | Louise Glück | — | |
| 1984 | Sharon Olds | — | |
| 1983 | James Merrill | — | |
| 1982 | Katha Pollitt | — | |
| 1981 | A.R. Ammons | — | |
| 1980 | Frederick Seidel | — | |
| 1979 | Philip Levine | — | |
| 1978 | L. E. Sissman | — | |
| 1977 | Robert Lowell | — | |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop | — | |
| 1975 | John Ashbery | — |
