Past Winners
| 2003 – Peter Streckfus, The Cuckoo | 2002 – Loren Goodman, Famous Americans | 2001 – Sean Singer, Discography |
| 2000 – Maurice Manning, Lawrence Booth’s Book Of Visions | 1999 – Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule | 1998 – Craig Arnold, Shells |
| 1996- Talvikki Ansel, My Shining Archipelago | 1995 – Ellen Hinsey, Cities of Memory | 1994 – Tony Crunk, Living in The Resurrection |
| 1993 – Valerie Wohlfield, Thinking The World Visible | 1992 – Jody Gladding, Stone Crop | 1991 – Nicholas Samaras, Hands of The Saddlemaker |
| 1990 – Christiane Jacox Kyle, Bears Dancing in the Northern Air |
1989 – Daniel Hall, Hermit with Landscape | 1988 – Thomas Bolt, Out of The Woods |
| 1987 – Brigit Pegeen Kelly, To The Place of Trumpets | 1986 – Julie Agoos, Above The Lands | 1985 – George Bradley,Terms To Be Met |
| 1984 – Pamela Alexander, Navigable Waterways | 1983 – Richard Kenney, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird | 1982 – Cathy Song, Picture Bride |
| 1981 – David Wojahn, Icehouse Lights | 1980 – John Bensko, Green Soldiers | 1979 – William Virgil Davis, One Way to Reconstruct The Scene |
| 1978 – Leslie Ullman, Natural Histories | 1977 – Bin Ramke, The Difference Between Night and Day | 1976 – Olga Broumas, Beginning with O |
| 1975 – Carolyn Forché, Gathering The Tribes | 1974 – Maura Stanton, Snow on Snow | 1973 – Michael Ryan, Threats Instead of Trees |
| 1972 – Robert Haas, Field Guide | 1971 – Michael Casey, Obscenities | 1970 – Peter Klappert, Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket |
| 1969 – Hugh Seidman, Collecting Evidence | 1968 – Judith Johnson Sherwin, Uranium Poems | 1967 – Helen Chasin, Coming Close and Other Poems |
| 1966 – James Tate, The Lost Pilot | 1964 – Jean Valentine, Dream Barker | 1963 – Peter Davidson, The Breaking of the Day |
| 1962 – Sandra Hochman, Manhattan Pastures | 1961 – Jack Gilbert, Views of Jeopardy | 1960 – Alan Dugan, Poems |
| 1959 – George Starbuck, Bone Thoughts | 1958 – William Dickey, Of The Festivity | 1957 – John Hollander, A Crackling of Thorns |
| 1956 – James Wright, The Green Wall | 1955 – John Ashberry, Some Trees | 1953 – Daniel Hoffman, An Armada of Thirty Whales |
| 1952 – Edgar Bogardus, Various Jangling Keys | 1951 – W. S. Merwin, A Mask for Janus | 1950 – Adrienne Rich, A Change of World |
| 1948 – Rosalie Moore, The Grasshopper’s Man and Other Poems | 1947 – Robert Horan, A Beginning | 1946 – Joan Murray, Poems |
| 1945 – Eve Merriam, Family Circle | 1944 – Charles E. Butler, Cut Is the Branch | 1943 – William Meredith, Love Letters from an Impossible Land |
| 1941 – Margaret Walker, For My People | 1940 – Jeremy Ingalls, The Metaphysical Sword | 1939 – Norman Rosten, Return Again, Traveler |
| 1938 – Reuel Denney, The Connecticut River and Other Poems | 1937 – Joy Davidman, Letter to a Comrade | 1936 – Margaret Haley, The Gardener Mind |
| 1935 – Edward Weismiller,The Deer Come Down | 1934 – Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight | 1933 – James Agee, Permit Me Voyage |
| 1932 – Shirley Baker, The Dark Hills Under | 1931 – Paul Engle, Worn Earth | 1930 – Dorothy Belle Flanagan (aka Dorothy B. Hughes) – Dark Certainty |
| 1929 – Louise Owen, Virtuosa | 1928 – Henri Faust, Half-Light and OvertureFrances M. Frost, Hemlock Wall | 1927 – Francis Claiborne Mason, This Unchanging MaskTed Olson, A Stranger and AfraidMildred Bowers, Twist o’ Smoke |
| 1926 – Lindley Williams Hubbell, Dark Pavilion | 1925 – Thomas Hornsby Ferril, High PassageEleanor Slater, Quest | 1924 – Dorothy E. Reid, Coach into Pumpkin |
| 1923 – Elizabeth Jessup Blake, Up and Down | 1922 – Beatrice E. Harmon, MosaicsMarion M. Boyd, Silver WandsAmos Niven Wilder, Battle-RetrospectDean B. Lyman, Jr., The Last Lutanist | 1921 – Paul Tanaquil, AttitudesBarnard Raymund, Hidden WatersMedora C. Addison, Dreams and a SwordHarold Vinal, White April |
| 1920 – Oscar Williams, Golden DarknessHervey Allen, Wampum and Old GoldViola C. White, HorizonsTheodore H. Banks, Jr., Wild Geese | 1919 – Darl MacLeod Boyle, Where Lilith DancesThomas Caldecot Chubb, The White God and Other PoemsAlfred Raymond Bellinger, Spires and PoplarsDavid Osborne Hamilton, Four Gardens | 1918 – John C. Farrar, Forgotten ShrinesHoward Buck, The Tempering |
