ShelfEvidentPulitzer Prize for Poetry — Complete Winners List
104 years of winners · Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University · Since 1922 · ← Back to award page
| 2026 | Juliana Spahr | Wesleyan University Press | |
| 2025 | Marie Howe | Graywolf Press | |
| 2024 | Brandon Som | — | |
| 2023 | Carl Phillips | — | |
| 2022 | Diane Seuss | Graywolf Press | |
| 2021 | Natalie Diaz | Graywolf Press | |
| 2020 | Jericho Brown | Copper Canyon Press | |
| 2019 | Forrest Gander | New Directions | |
| 2018 | Frank Bidart | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2017 | Tyehimba Jess | Wave Books | |
| 2016 | Peter Balakian | University of Chicago Press | |
| 2015 | Gregory Pardlo | Four Way Books | |
| 2014 | Vijay Seshadri | Graywolf Press | |
| 2013 | Sharon Olds | Cape Poetry | |
| 2012 | Tracy K. Smith | Graywolf Press | |
| 2011 | Kay Ryan | Grove Press | |
| 2010 | Rae Armantrout | — | |
| 2009 | W. S. Merwin | — | |
| 2008 | Robert Hass | — | |
| 2007 | Natasha Trethewey | — | |
| 2006 | Claudia Emerson | — | |
| 2005 | Ted Kooser | — | |
| 2004 | Franz Wright | — | |
| 2003 | Paul Muldoon | — | |
| 2002 | Carl Dennis | — | |
| 2001 | Stephen Dunn | — | |
| 2000 | C. K. Williams | — | |
| 1999 | Mark Strand | — | |
| 1998 | Charles Wright | — | |
| 1997 | Lisel Mueller | — | |
| 1996 | Jorie Graham | — | |
| 1995 | Philip Levine | — | |
| 1994 | Yusef Komunyakaa | — | |
| 1993 | Louise Glück | — | |
| 1992 | James Tate | — | |
| 1991 | Mona Van Duyn | — | |
| 1990 | Charles Simic | — | |
| 1989 | Richard Wilbur | — | |
| 1988 | William Meredith | — | |
| 1987 | Rita Dove | — | |
| 1986 | Henry S. Taylor | — | |
| 1985 | Carolyn Kizer | — | |
| 1984 | Mary Oliver | — | |
| 1983 | Galway Kinnell | — | |
| 1982 | Sylvia Plath | — | |
| 1981 | James Schuyler | — | |
| 1980 | Donald Justice | — | |
| 1979 | Robert Penn Warren | — | |
| 1978 | Howard Nemerov | — | |
| 1977 | James Merrill | — | |
| 1976 | John Ashbery | — | |
| 1975 | Gary Snyder | — | |
| 1974 | Robert Lowell | — | |
| 1973 | Maxine Kumin | — | |
| 1972 | James Wright | — | |
| 1971 | W. S. Merwin | — | |
| 1970 | Richard Howard | — | |
| 1969 | George Oppen | — | |
| 1968 | Anthony Hecht | — | |
| 1967 | Anne Sexton | — | |
| 1966 | Richard Eberhart | — | |
| 1965 | John Berryman | — | |
| 1964 | Louis Simpson | — | |
| 1963 | William Carlos Williams | — | |
| 1962 | Alan Dugan | — | |
| 1961 | Phyllis McGinley | — | |
| 1960 | W. D. Snodgrass | — | |
| 1959 | Stanley Kunitz | — | |
| 1958 | Robert Penn Warren | — | |
| 1957 | Richard Wilbur | — | |
| 1956 | Elizabeth Bishop | — | |
| 1955 | Wallace Stevens | — | |
| 1954 | Theodore Roethke | — | |
| 1953 | Archibald MacLeish | — | |
| 1952 | Marianne Moore | — | |
| 1951 | Carl Sandburg | — | |
| 1950 | Gwendolyn Brooks | — | |
| 1949 | Peter Viereck | — | |
| 1948 | W. H. Auden | — | |
| 1947 | Robert Lowell | — | |
| 1945 | Karl Shapiro | — | |
| 1944 | Stephen Vincent Benét | — | |
| 1943 | Robert Frost | — | |
| 1942 | William Rose Benét | — | |
| 1941 | Leonard Bacon | — | |
| 1940 | Mark Van Doren | — | |
| 1939 | John Gould Fletcher | — | |
| 1938 | Marya Zaturenska | — | |
| 1937 | Robert Frost | — | |
| 1936 | Robert P. T. Coffin | — | |
| 1935 | Audrey Wurdemann | — | |
| 1934 | Robert Hillyer | — | |
| 1933 | Archibald MacLeish | — | |
| 1932 | George Dillon | — | |
| 1931 | Robert Frost | — | |
| 1930 | Conrad Aiken | — | |
| 1929 | Stephen Vincent Benét | — | |
| 1928 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | — | |
| 1927 | Leonora Speyer | — | |
| 1926 | Amy Lowell | — | |
| 1925 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | — | |
| 1924 | Robert Frost | — | |
| 1923 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | — | |
| 1922 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | — |
