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Pulitzer Prize-winning Poetry

This list includes Pulitzer Prize-winning original poetry by an American Author from 1918 to 2021. The Pulitzer Prizes and Fellowships were established in Columbia University by Joseph Pulitzer. Prizes are awarded by the University on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board and are announced in Spring. Nominees are organized into 22 categories across journalism, books, drama and music.

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ByVijay Seshadri

2013 • 1 Reader • 75 pages

Alive Together

Alive Together
ByLisel Mueller

1996 • 1 Reader • 240 pages

American Primitive: Poems

1983 • 6 Readers • 88 pages 3

Be With

Be With
ByForrest Gander

4 Readers 3

Black Zodiac

Black Zodiac
ByCharles Wright

1997 • 1 Reader • 96 pages 3

Collected Poems

Collected Poems
BySylvia Plath

1981 • 70 Readers • 351 pages 4.5

Collected Poems

Collected Poems
ByJames Wright

1970 • 215 pages

Delights and Shadows

2004 • 2 Readers • 92 pages

Different Hours

Different Hours
ByStephen Dunn

2000 • 3 Readers • 128 pages 4

Digest

Digest
ByGregory Pardlo

2014 • 2 Readers • 75 pages

Divine Comedies: Poems

Divine Comedies: Poems
ByJames Merrill

1976 • 1 Reader • 136 pages

Failure

Failure
ByPhilip Schultz

2007 • 128 pages

Half-light

Half-light
ByFrank Bidart

2017 • 718 pages

Late Wife

Late Wife
ByClaudia Emerson

2005 • 2 Readers • 64 pages

Life on Mars

Life on Mars
ByTracy K. Smith

2011 • 45 Readers • 87 pages 3.4

Moy Sand and Gravel

Moy Sand and Gravel
ByPaul Muldoon

2002 • 1 Reader • 120 pages

Native Guard

Native Guard
ByNatasha Trethewey

2006 • 6 Readers • 64 pages 3.5

Near Changes

Near Changes
ByMona Van Duyn

1990 • 1 Reader • 69 pages

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

1993 • 1 Reader • 178 pages 5

New and collected poems

New and collected poems
ByRichard Wilbur

1988 • 1 Reader • 393 pages

Now And Then. Poems 1976-1978

Now And Then. Poems 1976-1978
ByRobert Penn Warren

1978 • 1 Reader • 104 pages

Olio

Olio
ByTyehimba Jess

2016 • 7 Readers • 256 pages

Ozone Journal

Ozone Journal
ByPeter Balakian

2015 • 1 Reader • 82 pages

Partial Accounts

Partial Accounts
ByWilliam Meredith

1987 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

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Postcolonial Love Poem
ByNatalie Díaz

2020 • 1 Reader

Practical Gods

Practical Gods
ByCarl Dennis

2001 • 78 pages

Repair

Repair
ByC.K. Williams

1999 • 3 Readers • 69 pages 1

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
ByGalway Kinnell

1980 • 5 Readers • 148 pages

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Selected Poems
ByDonald Justice

1979 • 2 Readers • 137 pages

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
ByJames Tate

1974 • 1 Reader • 250 pages

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

1975 • 13 Readers • 96 pages 5

Stag's Leap: Poems

Stag's Leap: Poems
BySharon Olds

2012 • 15 Readers • 114 pages 3.7

The Best of It

The Best of It
ByKay Ryan

2010 • 5 Readers • 265 pages 4

The Collected Poems

The Collected Poems
ByHoward Nemerov

1977 • 1 Reader • 534 pages

The Dolphin

The Dolphin
ByRobert Lowell

1973 • 1 Reader • 78 pages

The Dream Of The Unified Field: Selected Poems

1995 • 1 Reader • 199 pages

The Flying Change: Poems

The Flying Change: Poems
ByHenry S. Taylor

1985 • 2 Readers • 55 pages

The Morning of the Poem

The Morning of the Poem
ByJames Schuyler

1980 • 2 Readers • 128 pages

The Shadow of Sirius

2008 • 7 Readers • 120 pages 5

The Simple Truth

The Simple Truth
ByPhilip Levine

1994 • 2 Readers • 69 pages 3

The Tradition

The Tradition
ByJericho Brown

42 Readers 4.3

The Wild Iris

The Wild Iris
ByLouise Glück

1993 • 42 Readers • 84 pages 4

The World Doesn't End

The World Doesn't End
ByCharles Simic

1989 • 4 Readers • 88 pages 2

Thomas and Beulah

1986 • 1 Reader • 79 pages 4

Time and Materials

Time and Materials
ByRobert Hass

2007 • 3 Readers • 96 pages

Turtle Island

Turtle Island
ByGary Snyder

1974 • 7 Readers • 128 pages 3.5

Up Country

Up Country
ByMaxine Kumin

1972 • 1 Reader • 83 pages

Versed

Versed
ByRae Armantrout

2009 • 3 Readers • 121 pages 3

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

2003 • 75 pages

Yin

Yin
ByCarolyn Kizer

1984 • 85 pages