| Jahr | Preisträger | Titel | Deutscher Titel |
| 1950 |
William Carlos Williams |
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia |
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| 1951 |
Wallace Stevens |
The Auroras of Autumn |
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| 1952 |
Marianne Moore |
Collected Poems |
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| 1953 |
Archibald MacLeish |
Collected Poems, 1917–1952 |
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| 1954 |
Conrad Aiken |
Collected Poems |
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| 1955 |
Wallace Stevens |
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
Die Gedichte unseres Klimas |
| 1956 |
W. H. Auden |
The Shield of Achilles |
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| 1957 |
Richard Wilbur |
Things of the World |
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| 1958 |
Robert Penn Warren |
Promises: Poems, 1954–1956 |
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| 1959 |
Theodore Roethke |
Words for the Wind |
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| 1960 |
Robert Lowell |
Life Studies |
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| 1961 |
Randall Jarrell |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
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| 1962 |
Alan Dugan |
Poems |
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| 1963 |
William Stafford |
Traveling Through the Dark |
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| 1964 |
John Crowe Ransom |
Traveling Through the Dark |
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| 1965 |
Theodore Roethke |
The Far Field |
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| 1966 |
James Dickey |
Buckdancer’s Choice: Poems |
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| 1967 |
James Merrill |
Nights and Days |
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| 1968 |
Robert Bly |
The Light Around the Body |
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| 1969 |
John Berryman |
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
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| 1970 |
Elizabeth Bishop |
The Complete Poems |
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| 1971 |
Mona Van Duyn |
To See, To Take |
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| 1972 |
Howard Moss |
Selected Poems |
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| Frank O’Hara |
The Collected Works of Frank O’Hara |
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| 1973 |
A. R. Ammons |
Collected Poems, 1951–1971 |
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| 1974 |
Allen Ginsberg |
The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965–1971 |
Der Untergang Amerikas: Gedichte 1965–1971 |
| Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972 |
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| 1975 |
Marilyn Hacker |
Presentation Piece |
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| 1976 |
John Ashbery |
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
Selbstporträt im konvexen Spiegel |
| 1977 |
Richard Eberhart |
Collected Poems, 1930–1976 |
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| 1978 |
Howard Nemerov |
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov |
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| 1979 |
James Merrill |
Mirabell: Book of Numbers |
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| 1980 |
Philip Levine |
Ashes |
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| 1981 |
Lisel Mueller |
The Need to Hold Still |
Stimmen aus dem Wald |
| 1982 |
William Bronk |
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems |
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| 1983 |
Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems |
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| Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems |
|
1984–
1990 |
Preis nicht vergeben |
| 1991 |
Philip Levine |
What Work Is |
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| 1992 |
Mary Oliver |
New & Selected Poems |
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| 1993 |
A. R. Ammons |
Garbage |
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| 1994 |
James Tate |
A Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
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| 1995 |
Stanley Kunitz |
Passing Through: The Later Poems |
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| 1996 |
Hayden Carruth |
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Poems 1991–1995 |
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| 1997 |
William Meredith |
Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems |
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| 1998 |
Gerald Stern |
This Time: New and Selected Poems |
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| 1999 |
Ai |
Vice: New & Selected Poems |
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| 2000 |
Lucille Clifton |
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 |
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| 2001 |
Alan Dugan |
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
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| 2002 |
Ruth Stone |
In the Next Galaxy |
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| 2003 |
C. K. Williams |
The Singing |
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| 2004 |
Jean Valentine |
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 |
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| 2005 |
W. S. Merwin |
Migration: New and Selected Poems |
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| 2006 |
Nathaniel Mackey |
Splay Anthem |
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| 2007 |
Robert Hass |
Time and Materials |
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| 2008 |
Mark Doty |
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems |
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| 2009 |
Keith Waldrop |
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy |
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| 2010 |
Terrance Hayes |
Lighthead |
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| 2011 |
Nikky Finney |
Head Off & Split |
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| 2012 |
David Ferry |
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations |
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| 2013 |
Mary Szybist |
Incarnadine |
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| 2014 |
Louise Glück |
Faithful and Virtuous Night |
Treue und edle Nacht |
| 2015 |
Robin Coste Lewis |
Voyage of the Sable Venus |
Die Reise der Schwarzen Venus |
| 2016 |
Daniel Borzutzky |
The Performance of Becoming Human |
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| 2017 |
Frank Bidart |
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 |
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| 2018 |
Justin Phillip Reed |
Indecency |
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| 2019 |
Arthur Sze |
Sight Lines |
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| 2020 |
Don Mee Choi |
DMZ Colony |
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| 2021 |
Martín Espada |
Floaters |
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| 2022 |
John Keene |
Punks: New & Selected Poems |
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| 2023 |
Craig Santos Perez |
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