National Book Award Winners - Poetry

  • 1950: William Carlos Williams - Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems
  • 1951: Wallace Stevens - The Auroras of Autumn
  • 1952: Marianne Moore - Collected Poems
  • 1953: Archibald MacLeish - Collected Poems, 1917-1952
  • 1954: Conrad Aiken - Collected Poems
  • 1955: Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
  • 1956: W.H. Auden - The Shield of Achilles
  • 1957: Richard Wilbur - Things of This World
  • 1958: Robert Penn Warren - Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
  • 1959: Theodore Roethke - Words for the Wind
  • 1960: Robert Lowell - Life Studies
  • 1961: Randall Jarrell - The Woman at the Washington Zoo
  • 1962: Alan Dugan - Poems
  • 1963: William Stafford - Traveling Through the Dark
  • 1964: John Crowe Ransom - Selected Poems
  • 1965: Theodore Roethke - The Far Field
  • 1966: James Dickey - Buckdancer's Choice
  • 1967: James Merrill - Nights and Days
  • 1968: Robert Bly - The Light Around the Body
  • 1969: John Berryman - His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
  • 1970: Elizabeth Bishop - The Complete Poems
  • 1971: Mona Van Duyn - To See, To Take
  • 1972: Frank O'Hara - The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
  • 1972: Howard Moss - Selected Poems
  • 1973: A. R. Ammons - Collected Poems, 1951-1971'
  • 1974: Allen Ginsberg - The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971
  • 1974: Adrienne Rich - Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
  • 1975: Marilyn Hacker - Presentation Piece
  • 1976: John Ashbery - Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • 1977: Richard Eberhart - Collected Poems, 1930-1976
  • 1978: Howard Nemerov - The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
  • 1979: James Merrill - Mirabell: Book of Numbers
  • 1980: Philip Levine - Ashes: Poems New and Old
  • 1981: Lisel Mueller - The Need to Hold Still
  • 1982: William Bronk - Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
  • 1983: Galway Kinnell - Selected Poems
  • 1983: Charles Wright - Country Music: Selected Early Poems
  • 1985: No Award
  • 1986: No Award
  • 1987: No Award
  • 1988: No Award
  • 1989: No Award
  • 1990: No Award
  • 1991: Philip Levine - What Work Is
  • 1992: Mary Oliver - New & Selected Poems
  • 1993: A. R. Ammons - Garbage
  • 1994: James Tate - A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
  • 1995: Stanley Kunitz - Passing Through: The Later Poems
  • 1996: Hayden Carruth - Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
  • 1997: William Meredith - Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
  • 1998: Gerald Stern - This Time: New and Selected Poems
  • 1999: Ai - Vice: New & Selected Poems
  • 2000: Lucille Clifton - Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
  • 2001: Alan Dugan - Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
  • 2002: Ruth Stone - In the Next Galaxy
  • 2003: C. K. Williams - The Singing
  • 2004: Jean Valentine - Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
  • 2005: W. S. Merwin - Migration: New & Selected Poems
  • 2006: Nathaniel Mackey - Splay Anthem


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