Editing Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (section)

==Winners==

In its first 92 years to 2013, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded 92 times. Two were given in 2008, none in 1946.<ref name=prize/> [[Robert Frost]] won the prize four times and several others won it more than once ([[#Multiple_wins_and_nominations|below]]).

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Special Prizes for Poetry, 1918 and 1919
!Year
!Poet
!Title
|-
![[1918 in poetry|1918]]
|{{sortname|last=Teasdale|first=Sara}}
|''Love Songs'' 
|-
![[1919 in poetry|1919]]
|{{sortname|last=Sandburg|first=Carl}}
|''Cornhuskers''
|-
![[1919 in poetry|1919]]
|{{sortname|last=Widdemer|first=Margaret}}
|''The Old Road to Paradise''
|}


=== 1920s–1970s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 1922''–''1979<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Poetry |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224 |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430070755/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224 |url-status=live }}</ref>
!Year
!Poet
!Title
!Ref.
|-
![[1922 in poetry|1922]]
|{{sortname|last=Robinson|first=Edwin Arlington}}
|''Collected Poems''{{refn|group=note|The first poetry jury met in [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]] on Feb. 11, 1922, and chose Robinson, with [[Amy Lowell]] and [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] in competition. "Harriet Monroe, the influential editor of ''[[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry: A Magazine of Verse]]'', wasn't crazy about the choice, appearing to favor Millay, but her real beef was with the makeup of the jury that selected Robinson," according to the Pulitzer Prize website. The jury, consisting of just three members, considered 28 books in all; it was chaired by [[Wilbur Lucius Cross]]. Cross and another juror favored Robinson, though the third juror preferred Lowell, followed by Millay and ''then'' Robinson. In Cross's jury report, he cited this juror's "reluctant consent" for Robinson, perhaps delivered only to get the job over and done. [[Harriet Monroe]] looked at these jurors — Cross, a busy man who was a [[Yale University]] literature professor yet also a politician who served as [[Connecticut]]'s Governor for two terms; Richard Burton, a drama critic and reviewer of novels; and [[Ferris Greenslet]], who was by trade a librarian and an associate editor of ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', but chiefly a [[Biography|biographer]] — and her opinion was plain: "Though we cannot criticize the verdict in this case, we must repeat once more our plea that all juries should be strictly professional, and that poets alone have the right and the authority to award honors in their art."<ref name="first" />}}
|
|-
![[1923 in poetry|1923]]
|{{sortname|last=St. Vincent Millay|first=Edna}}
|"{{sort|1=Ballad of the Harp-Weaver|2=The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver}}," "A Few Figs from Thistles," and "Eight Sonnets"
|
|-
![[1924 in poetry|1924]]
|{{sortname|last=Frost|first=Robert}}
|''New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes''
|<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |date=1963-01-30 |title=Robert Frost, Winner Of 4 Pulitzer Prizes, Is Dead at Age of 88 |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/1/30/robert-frost-winner-of-4-pulitzer/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[The Harvard Crimson]] |publisher=[[Harvard University]] |archive-date=April 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403201410/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/1/30/robert-frost-winner-of-4-pulitzer/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite web |title=Robert Frost {{!}} The Bollingen Prize for Poetry |url=https://bollingen.yale.edu/poet/robert-frost |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Yale University]] |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129090729/https://bollingen.yale.edu/poet/robert-frost |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[1925 in poetry|1925]]
|{{sortname|last=Robinson|first=Edwin Arlington}}
|''{{sort|1=Man Who Died Twice|2=[[The Man Who Died Twice (poem)|The Man Who Died Twice]]}}''
|
|-
![[1926 in poetry|1926]]
|{{sortname|last=Lowell|first=Amy}}
|''[[s:What's O'Clock|What's O'Clock]]''
|
|-
![[1927 in poetry|1927]]
|{{sortname|last=Speyer|first=Leonora}}
|''[[s:Fiddler's Farewell|Fiddler's Farewell]]''
|
|-
![[1928 in poetry|1928]]
|{{sortname|last=Robinson|first=Edwin Arlington}}
|''Tristram''
|
|-
![[1929 in poetry|1929]]
|{{sortname|last=Benét|first=Stephen Vincent}}
|''[[John Brown's Body (poem)|John Brown's Body]]''
|
|-
![[1930 in poetry|1930]]
|{{sortname|last=Aiken|first=Conrad}}
|''Selected Poems''
|
|-
![[1931 in poetry|1931]]
|{{sortname|last=Frost|first=Robert}}
|''Collected Poems''
|<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10" />
|-
![[1932 in poetry|1932]]
|{{sortname|last=Dillon|first=George|link=George Dillon (poet)}}
|''{{sort|1=Flowering Stone|2=The Flowering Stone}}''
|
|-
![[1933 in poetry|1933]]
|{{sortname|last=MacLeish|first=Archibald}}
|''Conquistador''
|
|-
![[1934 in poetry|1934]]
|{{sortname|last=Hillyer|first=Robert}}
|''Collected Verse''
|
|-
![[1935 in poetry|1935]]
|{{sortname|last=Wurdemann|first=Audrey}}
|''Bright Ambush''
|
|-
![[1936 in poetry|1936]]
|{{sortname|last=Coffin|first=Robert P. T.}}
|''Strange Holiness''
|
|-
![[1937 in poetry|1937]]
|{{sortname|last=Frost|first=Robert}}
|{{Sort|Further Range|''[[A Further Range]]''}}
|<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10" />
|-
![[1938 in poetry|1938]]
|{{sortname|last=Zaturenska|first=Marya}}
|''Cold Morning Sky''
|
|-
![[1939 in poetry|1939]]
|{{sortname|last=Fletcher|first=John Gould}}
|''Selected Poems''
|
|-
![[1940 in poetry|1940]]
|{{sortname|last=Van Doren|first=Mark}}
|''Collected Poems''
|
|-
![[1941 in poetry|1941]]
|{{sortname|last=Bacon|first=Leonard|link=Leonard Bacon (poet)}}
|''Sunderland Capture''
|
|-
![[1942 in poetry|1942]]
|{{sortname|last=Benét|first=William Rose}}
|''{{sort|1=Dust Which Is God|2=The Dust Which Is God}}''
|
|-
![[1943 in poetry|1943]]
|{{sortname|last=Frost|first=Robert}}
|{{Sort|Witness Tree|''[[A Witness Tree]]''}}
|<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10" />
|-
![[1944 in poetry|1944]]
|{{sortname|last=Benét|first=Stephen Vincent}}
|''Western Star''
|
|-
![[1945 in poetry|1945]]
|{{sortname|last=Shapiro|first=Karl}}
|''V-Letter and Other Poems''
|
|-
![[1946 in poetry|1946]]
! colspan="2" |No award given
!
|-
![[1947 in poetry|1947]]
|{{sortname|last=Lowell|first=Robert}}
|''[[Lord Weary's Castle]]''
|
|-
![[1948 in poetry|1948]]
|{{sortname|last=Auden|first=W. H.}}
|''{{sort|1=Age of Anxiety|2=[[The Age of Anxiety]]}}''
|
|-
![[1949 in poetry|1949]]
|{{sortname|last=Viereck|first=Peter}}
|''Terror and Decorum''
|
|-
![[1950 in poetry|1950]]
|{{sortname|last=Brooks|first=Gwendolyn}}
|''Annie Allen''
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-30 |title=Poetry to Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=1008 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106151212/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=1008 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[1951 in poetry|1951]]
|{{sortname|last=Sandburg|first=Carl}}
|''Complete Poems''
|
|-
![[1952 in poetry|1952]]
|{{sortname|last=Moore|first=Marianne}}
|''Collected Poems''
|
|-
![[1953 in poetry|1953]]
|{{sortname|last=MacLeish|first=Archibald}}
|''Collected Poems 1917-1952''
|
|-
![[1954 in poetry|1954]]
|{{sortname|last=Roethke|first=Theodore}}
|''{{sort|1=Waking|2=The Waking}}''
|
|-
![[1955 in poetry|1955]]
|{{sortname|last=Stevens|first=Wallace}}
|''Collected Poems''
|
|-
![[1956 in poetry|1956]]
|{{sortname|last=Bishop|first=Elizabeth}}
|''Poems: North & South — A Cold Spring''
|
|-
![[1957 in poetry|1957]]
|{{sortname|last=Wilbur|first=Richard}}
|''Things of This World''
|
|-
![[1958 in poetry|1958]]
|{{sortname|last=Warren|first=Robert Penn}}
|''Promises: Poems 1954-1956''
|
|-
![[1959 in poetry|1959]]
|{{sortname|last=Kunitz|first=Stanley}}
|''Selected Poems 1928-1958''
|
|-
![[1960 in poetry|1960]]
|{{sortname|last=Snodgrass|first=W. D.}}
|''Heart's Needle''
|
|-
![[1961 in poetry|1961]]
|{{sortname|last=McGinley|first=Phyllis}}
|''Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades''
|
|-
![[1962 in poetry|1962]]
|{{sortname|last=Dugan|first=Alan}}
|''Poems''
|
|-
![[1963 in poetry|1963]]
|{{sortname|last=Williams|first=William Carlos}}
|''Pictures from Brueghel''
|
|-
![[1964 in poetry|1964]]
|{{sortname|last=Simpson|first=Louis}}
|''At the End of the Open Road''
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-11 |title=Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Louis Simpson Dies at 89 by Harriet Staff |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2012/09/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-louis-simpson-dies-at-89 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
![[1965 in poetry|1965]]
|{{sortname|last=Berryman|first=John}}
|''[[77 Dream Songs]]''
|
|-
![[1966 in poetry|1966]]
|{{sortname|last=Eberhart|first=Richard}}
|''Selected Poems''
|
|-
![[1967 in poetry|1967]]
|{{sortname|last=Sexton|first=Anne}}
|''[[Live or Die (poetry collection)|Live or Die]]''
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trinidad |first=David |date=2023-05-11 |title=How Anne Sexton Won the Pulitzer Prize |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2014/06/how-anne-sexton-won-the-pulitzer-prize |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |language=en |archive-date=December 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225161326/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2014/06/how-anne-sexton-won-the-pulitzer-prize |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[1968 in poetry|1968]]
|{{sortname|last=Hecht|first=Anthony}}
|''{{sort|1=Hard Hours|2=The Hard Hours}}''
|
|-
![[1969 in poetry|1969]]
|{{sortname|last=Oppen|first=George}}
|''Of Being Numerous''
|
|-
![[1970 in poetry|1970]]
|{{sortname|last=Howard|first=Richard}}
|''Untitled Subjects''
|
|-
![[1971 in poetry|1971]]
|{{sortname|last=Merwin|first=W. S.}}
|''{{sort|1=Carrier of Ladders|2=The Carrier of Ladders}}''
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Harrison |date=2019-03-15 |title=W.S. Merwin, poet of austere lyricism who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 91 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ws-merwin-poet-of-austere-lyricism-who-twice-won-the-pulitzer-prize-dies-at-91/2019/03/15/17b32206-6d57-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html |access-date=2023-05-11 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129192646/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ws-merwin-poet-of-austere-lyricism-who-twice-won-the-pulitzer-prize-dies-at-91/2019/03/15/17b32206-6d57-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[1972 in poetry|1972]]
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=James|link=James Wright (poet)}}
|''Collected Poems''
|
|-
![[1973 in poetry|1973]]
|{{sortname|last=Kumin|first=Maxine}}
|''Up Country''
|
|-
![[1974 in poetry|1974]]
|{{sortname|last=Lowell|first=Robert}}
|''{{sort|1=Dolphin|2=The Dolphin}}''
|
|-
![[1975 in poetry|1975]]
|{{sortname|last=Snyder|first=Gary}}
|''[[Turtle Island (book)|Turtle Island]]''
|
|-
![[1976 in poetry|1976]]
|{{sortname|last=Ashbery|first=John}}
|''[[Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poetry collection)|Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror]]''
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-09-05 |title=Obituary Note: John Ashbery |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3079 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418143123/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3079 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
![[1977 in poetry|1977]]
|{{sortname|last=Merrill|first=James}}
|''[[Divine Comedies]]''
|
|-
![[1978 in poetry|1978]]
|{{sortname|last=Nemerov|first=Howard}}
|''Collected Poems''
|
|-
![[1979 in poetry|1979]]
|{{sortname|last=Warren|first=Robert Penn}}
|''Now and Then''
|
|}

===1980s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 1980''–''1989<ref name=":0" />
!Year
!Poet
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1980 in poetry|1980]]
|{{sortname|last=Justice|first=Donald}}
|''Selected Poems''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hugo|first=Richard}}
|''Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Dave|link=Dave Smith (poet)}}
|''Goshawk, Antelope''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1981 in poetry|1981]]
|{{sortname|last=Schuyler|first=James}}
|''{{sort|1=Morning of the Poem|2=The Morning of the Poem}}''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hugo|first=Richard}}
|''{{sort|1=Right Madness on Skye|2=The Right Madness on Skye}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Strand|first=Mark}}
|''Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1982 in poetry|1982]]
|{{sortname|last=Plath|first=Sylvia}}
|''{{sort|1=Collected Poems|2=The Collected Poems}}''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Dave|link=Dave Smith (poet)}}
|''Dream Flights''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=Charles|dab=poet}}
|''{{sort|1=Southern Cross|2=The Southern Cross}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1983 in poetry|1983]]
|{{sortname|last=Kinnell|first=Galway}}
|''Selected Poems''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-10-30 |title=Obituary Note: Galway Kinnell |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2375 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402060813/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2375 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Gilbert|first=Jack}}
|''Monolithos, Poems 1962 and 1982''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=Charles|dab=poet}}
|''Country Music, Selected Early Poems''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1984 in poetry|1984]]
|{{sortname|last=Oliver|first=Mary}}
|''American Primitive''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-31 |title=Rediscover: Mary Oliver |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=736 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208044026/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=736 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-11 |title=Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83 by Harriet Staff |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2019/01/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-mary-oliver-dies-at-83 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |language=en |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224185959/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2019/01/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-mary-oliver-dies-at-83 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Engels|first=John}}
|''Weather-Fear: New and Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Miles|first=Josephine}}
|''Collected Poems, 1930-1982''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1985 in poetry|1985]]
|{{sortname|last=Kizer|first=Carolyn}}
|''Yin''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Duncan|first=Robert|link=Robert_Duncan_(poet)}}
|''Ground Work''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=Charles|dab=poet}}
|''{{sort|1=Other Side of the River|2=The Other Side of the River}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1986 in poetry|1986]]
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Henry S. }}
|''{{sort|1=Flying Change|2=The Flying Change}}''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hudgins|first=Andrew}}
|''Saints and Strangers''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Simic|first=Charles}}
|''Selected Poems, 1963-1983''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1987 in poetry|1987]]
|{{sortname|last=Dove|first=Rita}}
|''[[Thomas and Beulah]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Carruth|first=Hayden}}
|''{{sort|1=Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth|2=The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Simic|first=Charles}}
|''Unending Blues''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1988 in poetry|1988]]
|{{sortname|last=Meredith|first=William|link=William Morris Meredith Jr.}}
|''Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Clifton|first=Lucille}}
|''Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Williams|first=C.K.}}
|''Flesh and Blood''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1989 in poetry|1989]]
|{{sortname|last=Wilbur|first=Richard}}
|''New and Collected Poems''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hall|first=Donald}}
|''{{sort|1=One Day|2=The One Day}}''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-29 |title=Rediscover: Donald Hall |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=727 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130004819/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=727 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hongo|first=Garrett}}
|''{{sort|1=River of Heaven|2=The River of Heaven}}''
|Finalist
|
|}

===1990s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 1990''–''1999<ref name=":0" />
!Year
!Poet
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1990 in poetry|1990]]
|{{sortname|last=Simic|first=Charles}}
|''{{sort|1=World Doesn't End|2=[[The  World Doesn't End]]}}''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-22 |title=Rediscover: The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem |url=https://shelf-awareness.com/www.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.html?issue=1117 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=shelf-awareness.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-01-11 |title=Obituary Note: Charles Simic |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4393 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118160747/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4393 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rich|first=Adrienne}}
|''Time's Power''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Zweig|first=Paul}}
|''Selected and Last Poems''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1991 in poetry|1991]]
|{{sortname|last=Van Duyn|first=Mona}}
| ''Near Changes''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hecht|first=Anthony}}
|''{{sort|1=Transparent Man|2=The  Transparent Man}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Stern|first=Gerald}}
|''Leaving Another Kingdom''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1992 in poetry|1992]]
|{{sortname|last=Tate|first=James|link=James Tate (writer)}}
| ''Selected Poems''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-07-10 |title=Obituary Notes: James Tate; Michael Zifcak |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2546 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224195356/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2546 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Creeley|first=Robert}}
|''Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rich|first=Adrienne}}
|{{Sort|Atlas of the Difficult World|''An Atlas of the Difficult World''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1993 in poetry|1993]]
|{{sortname|last=Glück|first=Louise}}
|''{{sort|1=Wild Iris|2=[[The Wild Iris]]}}''{{refn|group=note|The Jury consisted of [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]], [[Bonnie Costello]] and [[Frank Bidart]]. Their consensus read: "Louise Glück's ''The Wild Iris'' is a book with a solitary, almost monastic vision. A kind of devotional poetry, it recalls the metaphysical tradition of the early 1600s, particularly the poet [[George Herbert]]. The poems themselves take place entirely within a garden, with the Christian motif of suffering and redemption, death and resurrection much in evidence. It is a book of intense inward rapture where lyric values, pure lyric values of voice and spiritual meditation, predominate, and its appearance secures for Glück a high place indeed in contemporary American poetry."<ref name="Eight">{{cite web |title=Eight Poets, Eight Prizes |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/article/eight-poets-eight-prizes |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |publisher=Pulitzer.org |access-date=January 20, 2025}}</ref>}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-09 |title=Rediscover: Louise Glück |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=960 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206040402/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=960 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ashbery|first=John}}
|''Hotel Lautreamont''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Merrill|first=James}}
|''Selected Poems 1946-1985''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1994 in poetry|1994]]
|{{sortname|last=Komunyakaa|first=Yusef}}
| ''Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems''{{refn|group=note|The Jury consisted of [[Mary Oliver]], Calvin Bedient and [[Michael S. Harper]]. Their consensus read: "The poems of Yusef Komunyakaa are deeply felt and experienced, often narrating the author’s memory of childhood, his time in Vietnam, or an emotion — often melancholy — that is salved by music and/or love. His poems resonate with vigorous vocables, with great musical range and nuance; his poetic navigations of intense quiet and gentleness move subtly by leaps of truth-telling and song."<ref name="Eight" />}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hillman|first=Brenda}}
|''Bright Existence''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Mandelbaum|first=Allen}}
|''{{sort|1=Metamorphoses of Ovid|2=The  Metamorphoses of Ovid}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1995 in poetry|1995]]
|{{sortname|last=Levine|first=Philip|link=Philip Levine (poet)}}
|''{{sort|1=Simple Truth|2=The  Simple Truth}}''{{refn|group=note|The Jury consisted of [[Mark Strand]], [[Louise Glück]] and [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]]. They praised Levine's book, "in which small domestic loss and the grand erasures of time seem inextricable. Mr. Levine, whose gifts have never seemed more evident, has combined narrative grace and humor to form one of the most moving sequences of elegies in recent American poetry."<ref name="Eight" />}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-20 |title=Philip Levine, 1928-2015 |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=377 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127121922/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=377 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ginsberg|first=Allen}}
|''Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Koch|first=Kenneth}}
|''On the  Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 and One Train''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1996 in poetry|1996]]
|{{sortname|last=Graham|first=Jorie}}
|''{{sort|1=Dream of the Unified Field|2=The  Dream of the Unified Field}}''{{refn|group=note|The Jury consisted of [[Frank Bidart]], [[Bonnie Costello]] and [[John Wheatcroft]]. Their consensus: "Jorie Graham's ''The Dream of the Unified Field'', selected from work published from 1974 to 1994, is a significant volume in its own right. It clarifies the superb achievement of one of America's most accomplished writers — the boldness of Graham's aesthetic innovation, the freshness with which she explores the central themes that have from the beginning dominated her work. No contemporary has explored more subtly or movingly the conflict between idea ("perfection") and manifestation (at best "perfect instances"), or invented with greater resource a prosody adequate to it."<ref name="Eight" />}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Justice|first=Donald}}
|''New and Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=Charles|dab=poet}}
|''Chickamauga''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1997 in poetry|1997]]
|{{sortname|last=Mueller|first=Lisel}}
| ''Alive Together: New and Selected Poems''{{refn|group=note|The Jury consisted of [[Rita Dove]], [[Mary Karr]] and Alan Williamson. Their consensus reads: "Mueller often writes about intense psychological states or perceptions. But her best work is transcendent in a lyric mode that evokes [[Rainer Maria Rilke|Rilke]]. She uses vivid imagery to augment linguistic and philosophical truths in forms that are both precise and super poetic — the language and what's being said are impossible to unravel. In 'Snow,' the whiteness of earth and heaven join at the poem's end – a breath-taking turn that brings a backwash of insight: 'We are covered with stars./Feel how light they are, our lives.' She's also capable of meditative brilliance, as in 'Place and Time,' which begins offhandedly with listening to a radio talk show, then leaps into more metaphysical ponderings: '[T]he lives we live/before the present moment/are graves we walk away from/Except we don't. We're all/pillars of salt. My life began/with Beethoven and Schubert/on my mother's grand piano.../[It] burned with our city in World War II.' Here as elsewhere, she sets average memory next to historical horror, the metaphysical next to the quotidian. Her political poems never fall into being pedantic, and her flourishes of linguistic wit are worthy of [[Alexander Pope |Pope]]. Her virtuosity rests partly in unadorned speech, for Mueller does not indulge in linguistic embroidery for its own sake. Her emotional intention is more radical than that: She often writes as if to inspire spiritual hope. These subtle poems grow more resonant with rereading."<ref name="Eight" />}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-02-26 |title=Obituary Note: Lisel Mueller |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3683 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130014520/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3683 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Pinsky|first=Robert}}
|''{{sort|1=Figured Wheel|2=The  Figured Wheel}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Sheck|first=Laurie}}
|''{{sort|1=Willow Grove|2=The  Willow Grove}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1998 in poetry|1998]]
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=Charles|dab=poet}}
| ''Black Zodiac''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bidart|first=Frank}}
|''Desire''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Williams|first=C.K.}}
|''{{sort|1=Vigil|2=The  Vigil}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1999 in poetry|1999]]
|{{sortname|last=Strand|first=Mark}}
| ''Blizzard of One''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-12-30 |title=In Memoriam |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=362 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=March 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307140015/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=362 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Notley|first=Alice}}
|''Mysteries of Small Houses''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Seidel|first=Frederick}}
|''Going Fast''
|Finalist
|
|}

===2000s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 2000''–''2009<ref name=":0" />
!Year
!Poet
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2000 in poetry|2000]]
|{{sortname|last=Williams|first=C. K.}}
|''Repair''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-09-21 |title=Obituary Note: Jackie Collins; C.K. Williams |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2596 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523053236/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2596 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Rodney|link=Rodney Jones (poet)}}
|''Elegy for the Southern Drawl''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rich|first=Adrienne}}
|''Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2001 in poetry|2001]]
|{{sortname|last=Dunn|first=Stephen}}
|''Different Hours''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2001-04-23 |title=Chabon, Ellis Win Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010423/19025-chabon-ellis-win-pulitzers.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-06-29 |title=Obituary Note: Stephen Dunn |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4017 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203162724/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lea|first=Sydney}}
|''Pursuit of a Wound''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Bruce|link=Bruce Smith (poet)}}
|''{{sort|1=Other Lover|2=The Other Lover}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2002 in poetry|2002]]
|{{sortname|last=Dennis|first=Carl}}
|''Practical Gods''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Glück|first=Louise}}
|''{{sort|1=Seven Ages|2=The Seven Ages}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=Franz}}
|''{{sort|1=Beforelife|2=The Beforelife}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2003 in poetry|2003]]
|{{sortname|last=Muldoon|first=Paul}}
|''Moy Sand and Gravel''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-01-02 |title=Review: One Thousand Things Worth Knowing |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2413 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=December 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225023618/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2413 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bidart|first=Frank}}
|''Music Like Dirt''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=McClatchy|first=J. D.}}
|''Hazmat''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-04-12 |title=Obituary Note: J.D. McClatchy |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3226 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302135936/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3226 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2004 in poetry|2004]]
|{{sortname|last=Wright|first=Franz}}
|''Walking to Martha's Vineyard''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Cole|first=Henri}}
|''Middle Earth''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=McHugh|first=Heather}}
|''Eyeshot''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2005 in poetry|2005]]
|{{sortname|last=Kooser|first=Ted}}
|''Delights & Shadows''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Matthews|first=William|link=William Matthews (poet)}}
|''Search Party: Collected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Pegeen Kelly|first=Brigit}}
|''{{sort|1=Orchard|2=The Orchard}}''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-10-24 |title=Obituary Note: Brigit Pegeen Kelly |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2865 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130004854/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2865 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2006 in poetry|2006]]
|{{sortname|last=Emerson|first=Claudia}}
|''Late Wife''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Alexander|first=Elizabeth|link=Elizabeth Alexander (poet)}}
|''American Sublime''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Young|first=Dean|link=Dean Young (poet)}}
|''Elegy on Toy Piano''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-08-31 |title=Obituary Note: Dean Young |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4308 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418161109/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4308 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2007 in poetry|2007]]
|{{sortname|last=Trethewey|first=Natasha}}
|''Native Guard''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Espada|first=Martín}}
|''{{sort|1=Republic of Poetry|2=The Republic of Poetry}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wojahn|first=David}}
|''Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2008 in poetry|2008]]
|{{sortname|last=Hass|first=Robert}}
|''Time and Materials''
|Winner
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|{{sortname|last=Schultz|first=Philip}}
|''Failure''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bryant Voigt|first=Ellen}}
|''Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2009 in poetry|2009]]
|{{sortname|last=Merwin|first=W. S.}}
|''{{sort|1=Shadow of Sirius|2=The Shadow of Sirius}}''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-21 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002000124/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-20 |title=The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/15142-the-2009-pulitzer-prizes-for-letters-and-drama.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bidart|first=Frank}}
|''Watching the Spring Festival''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Stone|first=Ruth}}
|''What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|}
===2010s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 2010''–''2019<ref name=":0" />
!Year
!Poet
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2010 in poetry|2010]]
|{{sortname|last=Armantrout|first=Rae}}
|''[[Versed (poetry collection)|Versed]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-13 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820022347/http://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2010-04-14 |title=Pulitzer Winner's True Attributes |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1161 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=December 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202223930/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1161 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Estes|first=Angie}}
|''Tryst''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Perillo|first=Lucia}}
|''Inseminating the Elephant''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2011 in poetry|2011]]
|{{sortname|last=Ryan|first=Kay}}
|''{{sort|1=Best of It: New and Selected Poems|2=[[The Best of It (poetry collection)|The Best of It: New and Selected Poems]]}}''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-04-19 |title=Awards: Pulitzer, Lukas Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206034500/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-11-04 |title=Obituary Notes: Fred Klein, Joan Bingham |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3859 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203023637/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3859 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Manning|first=Maurice|link=Maurice Manning (poet)}}
|''{{sort|1=Common Man|2=The Common Man}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Valentine|first=Jean}}
|''Break the Glass''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-01-13 |title=Obituary Note: Jean Valentine |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3901 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208031424/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3901 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2012 in poetry|2012]]
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Tracy K.}}
|''Life on Mars''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-17 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028053548/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |archive-date=October 28, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2012-04-16 |title=2012 Pulitzer Prize: No Fiction Award, Jurors 'Shocked' |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119150319/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-06-14 |title=Tracy K. Smith Named U.S. Poet Laureate |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3022 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207021859/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3022 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Gander|first=Forrest}}
|''Core Samples from the World''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Padgett|first=Ron}}
|''How Long''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":3" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2013 in poetry|2013]]
|{{sortname|last=Olds|first=Sharon}}
|''[[Stag's Leap (book)|Stag's Leap]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2013-04-15 |title=2013 Pulitzer Prize: 'Orphan Master' Brings Fiction Prize Back |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126191934/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Gilbert|first=Jack}}
|''Collected Poems''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":6" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Weigl|first=Bruce}}
|''{{sort|1=Abundance of Nothing|2=The Abundance of Nothing}}''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":6" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2014 in poetry|2014]]
|{{sortname|last=Seshadri|first=Vijay}}
|''[[3 Sections (Poetry Collection)|3 Sections]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-15 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Thwaites Wainwright Nature & Travel Writing |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022608/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-14 |title=Tartt, Fagin Take 2014 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110152417/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Creech|first=Morri}}
|''{{sort|1=Sleep of Reason|2=The Sleep of Reason}}''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Matejka|first=Adrian}}
|''{{sort|1=Big Smoke|2=The Big Smoke}}''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2015 in poetry|2015]]
|{{sortname|last=Pardlo|first=Gregory}}
|''[[Digest (poetry collection)|Digest]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-21 |title=Doerr, Kolbert Among 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128034004/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness ]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-11 |title=At Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet, Gregory Pardlo Discusses Housecleaning, Elton John by Harriet Staff |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2015/07/at-wall-street-journal-pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-gregory-pardlo-discusses-housecleaning-elton-john- |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Shapiro|first=Alan}}
|''Reel to Reel''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Sze|first=Arthur}}
|''Compass Rose''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2016 in poetry|2016]]
|{{sortname|last=Balakian|first=Peter}}
|''[[Ozone Journal]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-19 |title=Debut Novel Among 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302135954/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-11 |title=Peter Balakian, Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry by Harriet Staff |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2016/04/peter-balakian-winner-of-the-2016-pulitzer-prize-in-poetry |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Seuss|first=Diane}}
|''Four-Legged Girl''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Willis|first=Elizabeth}}
|''Alive: New and Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2017 in poetry|2017]]
|{{sortname|last=Jess|first=Tyehimba}}
|''[[Olio (poetry collection)|Olio]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-11 |title=Congratulations to 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner Tyehimba Jess by Harriet Staff |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2017/04/congratulations-to-2017-pulitzer-prize-winner-tyehimba-jess |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-11 |title=The Underground Railroad Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119025053/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2017-04-10 |title=Whitehead, Thompson Among 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808033829/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |archive-date=August 8, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=McGrath|first=Campbell}}
|''XX''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rich|first=Adrienne}}
|''Collected Poems: 1950-2012''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2018 in poetry|2018]]
|{{sortname|last=Bidart|first=Frank}}
|''[[Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":4">{{cite web |title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911080447/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |archive-date=September 11, 2019 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-04-17 |title=Andrew Sean Greer, James Forman Jr. Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3229 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701162047/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3229 |archive-date=July 1, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-11 |title=Frank Bidart Wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize by Harriet Staff |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2018/04/frank-bidart-wins-2018-pulitzer-prize |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Poetry Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Shockley|first=Evie}}
|''semiautomatic,''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Patricia|link=Patricia Smith (poet)}}
|''[[Incendiary Art]]''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":4" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2019 in poetry|2019]]
|{{sortname|last=Gander|first=Forrest}}
|''[[Be With (poetry collection)|Be With]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":5">{{cite web |title=2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726100152/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |archive-date=July 26, 2019 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2019-04-16 |title=Richard Powers, David W. Blight Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126034939/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gander |first=Forrest |date=2019-04-15 |title=A Poem from Forrest Gander's Be With, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize |url=https://lithub.com/a-poem-from-forrest-ganders-be-with-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Literary Hub]] |language=en-US |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205161345/https://lithub.com/a-poem-from-forrest-ganders-be-with-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Charles|first=Jos}}
|''feeld''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":7" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Stallings|first=A.E.}}
|''Like''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":7" />
|}

===2020s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 2020''–''present<ref name=":0" />
!Year
!Poet
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2020 in poetry|2020]]
|{{sortname|last=Brown|first=Jericho}}
|{{Sort|Tradition|''[[The Tradition (poetry collection)|The Tradition]]''}}
|Winner
|<ref name=":03">{{cite web |title=2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730234718/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-05 |title=The Nickel Boys Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130215553/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2020-05-04 |title=Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130123841/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-04 |title=Emory professor Jericho Brown wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |url=https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/05/pulitzer-prize-brown/index.html |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=[[Emory University]] |language=en |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205163938/https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/05/pulitzer-prize-brown/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Laux|first=Dorianne}}
|''Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ruefle|first=Mary}}
|''Dunce''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":1" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2021 in poetry|2021]]
|{{sortname|last=Diaz|first=Natalie}}
|''Postcolonial Love Poem''
|Winner
|<ref name=":1"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-14 |title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123024752/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2021-06-11 |title=Pulitzer Prize: 2021 Winners List |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-11 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614171313/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-11 |title=Poet Natalie Diaz wins Pulitzer Prize |url=https://news.asu.edu/20210611-creativity-asu-poet-natalie-diaz-wins-pulitzer-prize-postcolonial-love-poem |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=ASU News |publisher=[[Arizona State University]] |language=en |archive-date=December 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207171920/https://news.asu.edu/20210611-creativity-asu-poet-natalie-diaz-wins-pulitzer-prize-postcolonial-love-poem |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Berssenbrugge|first=Mei-mei}}
|''[[A Treatise on Stars]]''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Forché|first=Carolyn}}
|''In the Lateness of the World''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":1" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2022 in poetry|2022]]
|{{sortname|last=Seuss|first=Diane}}
|''[[frank: sonnets]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802013936/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |access-date=May 12, 2022 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2022-05-09 |title='The Netanyahus,' 'frank: sonnets' Among 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129181727/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-10 |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705011242/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Alexander|first=Will|link=Will Alexander (poet)}}
|''Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Vang|first=Mai Der}}
|''[[Yellow Rain (poetry collection)|Yellow Rain]]''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2023 in poetry|2023]]
|{{sortname|last=Phillips|first=Carl}}
|''[[Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007–2020]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Sophia |date=2023-05-08 |title='Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/92233-demon-copperhead-trust-his-name-is-george-floyd-among-2023-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-09 |title=2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners Include Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, Diaz's Trust |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4476 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Otten |first=Liam |date=2023-05-09 |title=Phillips wins Pulitzer Prize in Poetry - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis |url=https://source.wustl.edu/2023/05/phillips-wins-pulitzer-prize-in-poetry/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=The Source |publisher=[[Washington University in St. Louis]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Heffernan |first=Brian |date=2023-05-08 |title=Wash U professor Carl Phillips wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Hear him read 'Then the War' |url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts/2023-05-08/washington-university-professor-carl-phillips-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-poetry |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=STLPR |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hopler|first=Jay}}
|[[Still Life (poetry collection)|''Still Life'']]
|Finalist
|<ref name=":02" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=okpik|first=dg nanouk}}
|''Blood Snow''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":02" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2024 in poetry|2024]]
|{{sortname|last=Som|first=Brandon}}
|''[[Tripas (poetry collection)|Tripas: Poems]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=Pulitzer2024>{{cite web|url = https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2024 |title = 2024 Pulitzer Prizes |website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes]] |language=en |accessdate = 2024-05-07}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Graham|first=Jorie}}
|''To 2040''
|Finalist
|<ref name="Pulitzer2024" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Schiff|first=Robyn}}
|''Information Desk: An Epic''
|Finalist
|<ref name="Pulitzer2024" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2025 in poetry|2025]]
|{{sortname|Marie|Howe}}
|''New and Selected Poems''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|Jennifer|Chang}}
|''An Authentic Life''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|Danez|Smith}}
|''Bluff: Poems''
|Finalist
|
|}