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== Multiple wins and nominations == The following individuals received two or more Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (The 1918 and 1919 Special Prizes are included): {| class="wikitable" !Wins !Poet !Years |- |4 |[[Robert Frost]] |1924, 1931, 1937, 1943 |- |3 |[[Edwin Arlington Robinson]] |1922, 1925, 1928 |- | rowspan="7" |2 |[[Stephen Vincent Benét]] |1929, 1944 |- |[[Robert Lowell]] |1947, 1974 |- |[[Archibald MacLeish]] |1933, 1953 |- |[[William S. Merwin]] |1971, 2009 |- |[[Carl Sandburg]] |1919, 1951 |- |[[Robert Penn Warren]] |1958, 1979 |- |[[Richard Wilbur]] |1957, 1989 |} The following individuals received two or more nominations: '''Bolded''' years are years that the poet won {| class="wikitable" !Nominations !Poet !Years |- |5 |[[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]] |1982, 1983, 1985, 1996, '''1998''' |- | rowspan="3" |4 |[[Frank Bidart]] |1998, 2003, 2009, '''2018''' |- |[[Robert Frost]] |'''1924, 1931, 1937, 1943''' |- |[[Adrienne Rich]] |1990, 1992, 2000, 2017 |- | rowspan="2" |3 |[[Edwin Arlington Robinson]] |'''1922, 1925, 1928''' |- |[[Charles Simic]] |1986, 1987, '''1990''' |- | rowspan="20" |2 |[[John Ashbery]] |'''1976''', 1993 |- |[[Stephen Vincent Benét]] |'''1929, 1944''' |- |[[Forrest Gander]] |2012, '''2019''' |- |[[Jack Gilbert]] |1983, 2013 |- |[[Louise Glück]] |'''1993''', 2002 |- |[[Anthony Hecht]] |'''1968''', 1991 |- |[[Richard Hugo]] |1980, 1981 |- |[[Donald Justice]] |'''1980''', 1996 |- |[[Robert Lowell]] |'''1947, 1974''' |- |[[Archibald MacLeish]] |'''1933, 1953''' |- |[[James Merrill|James Merril]] |'''1977,''' 1993 |- |[[William S. Merwin]] |'''1971, 2009''' |- |[[Carl Sandburg]] |'''1919, 1951''' |- |[[Diane Seuss]] |2016, '''2022''' |- |[[Mark Strand]] |1981, '''1999''' |- |[[Dave Smith (poet)|Dave Smith]] |1980, 1982 |- |[[Robert Penn Warren]] |'''1958, 1979''' |- |[[Richard Wilbur]] |'''1957, 1989''' |- |[[C. K. Williams|C.K. Williams]] |1988, 1998 |- |[[Franz Wright]] |2002, '''2004''' |} [[Robert Frost]] won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times from 1924 to 1943. [[Edwin Arlington Robinson]] won three prizes during the 1920s and several people, all male, have won two. [[Carl Sandburg]] won one of the special prizes for his poetry in 1919 and won the Poetry Pulitzer in 1951. Only four women have had multiple nominations: [[Adrienne Rich]] with 4, and [[Louise Glück]], [[Jorie Graham]] and [[Diane Seuss]] with 2 each.
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