| A | B |
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| 2002 Practical Gods | Carl Dennis |
| 2001 Different Hours | Stephen Dunn |
| 2000 Repair | C. K. Williams |
| 1999 Blizzard of One | Mark Strand |
| 1998 Black Zodiac | Charles Wright |
| 1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems | Lisel Mueller |
| 1996 The Dream of the Unified Field | Jorie Graham |
| 1995 The Simple Truth | Philip Levine |
| 1994 Neon Vernacular | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| 1993 The Wild Iris | Louise Gluck |
| 1992 Selected Poems | James Tate |
| 1991 Near Changes | Mona Van Duyn |
| 1990 The World Doesn't End | Charles Simic |
| 1989 New and Collected Poems | Richard Wilbur |
| 1988 Partail Accounts: New and Selected Poems | William Meredith |
| 1987 Thomas and Beulah | Rita Dove |
| 1986 The Flying Change | Henry Taylor |
| 1985 Yin | Carolyn Kinzer |
| 1984 American Primitive | Mary Oliver |
| 1983 Selected Poems | Galway Kinnell |
| 1982 Collected Poems | Sylvia Plath |
| 1981 The Morning of the Poem | James Schuyler |
| 1980 Selected Poems | Donald Justice |
| 1979 Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978 | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1978 The Collected Poems | Howard Nemerov |
| 1977 Divine Comedies: Poems | James Merrill |
| 1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror | James Ashbery |
| 1975 Turtle Island | Gary Snyder |
| 1974 The Dolphin | Robert Lowell |
| 1973 Up Country | Maxine Winokur Kumin |
| 1972 Collected Poems | James Wright |
| 1971 The Carrier of Ladders | W. S. Merwin |
| 1970 Untitled Subjects | Richard Howard |
| 1969 Of Being Numerous | George Oppen |
| 1968 The Hard Hours | Anthony Hecht |
| 1967 Live or Die | Anne Sexton |
| 1966 Selected Poems | Richard Eberhart |
| 1965 77 Dream Songs | John Berryman |
| 1964 At the End of the Open Road | Louis Simpson |
| 1963 Pictures from Brueghel | William Carlos Williams |
| 1962 Poems | Alan Dugan |
| 1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades | Phyllis McGinley |
| 1960 Heart's Needle | W. D. Snodgrass |
| 1959 Selected Poem 1928-1958 | Stanley Kunitz |
| 1958 Promises: Poems 1954-1956 | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1957 Things of This World | Richard Wilbur |
| 1956 Poems-North & South | Elizabeth Bishop |
| 1955 Collected Poems | Wallace Stevens |
| 1954 The Waking | Theodore Roethke |
| 1953 Collected Poems 1917-1952 | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1952 Collected Poems | Marianne Moore |
| 1951 Complete Poems | Carl Sandburg |
| 1950 Annie Allen | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| 1949 Terror and Decorum | Peter Viereck |
| 1948 The Age of Anxiety | W. H. Auden |
| 1947 Lord Weary's Castle | Robert Lowell |
| 1946 No Award | None |
| 1945 V-Letter and Other Poems | Karl Shapiro |
| 1944 Western Star | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| 1943 A Witness Tree | Robert Frost |
| 1942 The Dust Which Is God | William Rose Benet |
| 1941 Sunderland Capture | Leonard Bacon |
| 1940 Collected | Mark Van Doren |
| 1939 Selected Poems | John Gould Fletcher |
| 1938 Cold Morning Sky | Marya Zaturenska |
| 1937 A Further Range | Robert Frost |
| 1936 Strange Holiness | Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
| 1935 Bright Ambush | Audrey Wurdemann |
| 1934 Collected Verse | Robert Hillyer |
| 1933 Conquistador | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1932 The Flowering Stone | George Dillon |
| 1931 Collected Poems | Robert Frost |
| 1930 Selected Poems | Conrad Aiken |
| 1929 John Brown's Body | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| 1928 Tristram | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1927 Fiddler's Farewell | Leonora Speyer |
| 1926 What's O'Clock | Amy Lowell |
| 1925 The Man Who Died Twice | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1924 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes | Robert Frost |
| 1923 The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; 8 Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922 | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| 1922 Collected Poems | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1919 (Poetry Society) Old Road to Paradise / Corn Huskers | Margaret Widdemer / Carl Sandburg |
| 1918 (Poetry Society) Love Song | Sara Teasdale |
| 2003 Moy Sand and Gravel | Paul Muldoon |
| 2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard | Franz Wright |
| 2005 Delight and Shadows | Ted Kooser |
| 2006 Late Wife | Claudia Emerson |
| 2007 Native Guard | Natasha Trethewey |
