The Judges

Carl Phillips (Photo credit: Doug Macomber)

2011 – Present: Carl Phillips

2003 – 2010: Louise Glück

1997 – 2003: W. S. Merwin

1990 – 1996: James Dickey

1983 – 1989: James Merrill

1977 – 1982: Richard Hugo

1969 – 1976: Stanley Kunitz

1958 – 1968: Dudley Fitts

1946 – 1958: W. H. Auden

1942 – 1945: Archibald MacLeish

1933 – 1942: Stephen Vincent Benét

1925 – 1932: William Alexander Percy

1923 – 1924: Edward Bliss Reed

1923: Frederick E. Pierce

1919 – 1923: Charlton M. Lewis