| A | B |
|---|
| Selected Poems (1980) | Donald Justice |
| The Morning of the Poem (1981) | James Schuyler |
| Collected Poems (1982) | Sylvia Plath |
| Selected Poems (1983) | Galway Kinnell |
| American Primitive (1984) | Mary Oliver |
| Yin (1985) | Carolyn Kizer |
| The Flying Change (1986) | Henry Taylor |
| Thomas And Beulah (1987) | Rita Dove |
| Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (1988) | William Meredith |
| New and Collected Poems (1989) | Richard Wilbur |
| the World Doesn't End (1990) | Charles Simic |
| Near Changes (1991) | Mona Van Duyn |
| Selected Poems (1992) | James Tate |
| The Wild Iris (1993) | Louise Glück |
| Neon Vernacular (1994) | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| The Simple Truth (1995) | Philip Levine |
| The Dream of the Unified Field (1996) | Jorie Graham |
| Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (1997) | Lisel Mueller |
| Black Zodiac (1998) | Charles Wright |
| Blizzard of One (1999) | Mark Strand |
