The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honour excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music. The prizes, administered by Columbia University, bestow on winners both literary prestige and a cash prize.
For years not listed, no award was made.
- 1918
- Love Songs, Sara Teasdale
- 1919
- Old Road to Paradise, Margaret Widdemer; Corn Huskers, Carl Sandburg
- 1922
- Collected Poems, Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1923
- The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; eight sonnets in American Poetry, 1922, A Miscellany, Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 1924
- New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, Robert Frost
- 1925
- The Man Who Died Twice, Edwin Arlington
Robinson
- 1926
- What's O'Clock, Amy Lowell
- 1927
- Fiddler's Farewell, Leonora Speyer
- 1928
- Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1929
- John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benet
- 1930
- Selected Poems, Conrad Aiken
- 1931
- Collected Poems, Robert Frost
- 1932
- The Flowering Stone, George Dillon
- 1933
- Conquistador, Archibald MacLeish
- 1934
- Collected Verse, Robert Hillyer
- 1935
- Bright Ambush, Audrey Wurdemann
- 1936
- Strange Holiness, Robert P. T. Coffin
- 1937
- A Further Range, Robert Frost
- 1938
- Cold Morning Sky, Marya Zaturenska
- 1939
- Selected Poems, John Gould Fletcher
- 1940
- Collected Poems, Mark Van Doren
- 1941
- Sunderland Capture, Leonard Bacon
- 1942
- The Dust Which Is God, William Rose Benet
- 1943
- A Witness Tree, Robert Frost
- 1944
- Western Star, Stephen Vincent Benet
- 1945
- V-Letter and Other Poems, Karl Shapiro
- 1947
- Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell
- 1948
- The Age of Anxiety, W. H. Auden
- 1949
- Terror and Decorum, Peter Viereck
- 1950
- Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1951
- Complete Poems, Carl Sandburg
- 1952
- Collected Poems, Marianne Moore
- 1953
- Collected Poems, 1917–1952, ArchibaldMacLeish
- 1954
- The Waking, Theodore Roethke
- 1955
- Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens
- 1956
- Poems—North & South, Elizabeth Bishop
- 1957
- Things of This World, Richard Wilbur
- 1958
- Promises: Poems, 1954–1956, Robert Penn Warren
- 1959
- Selected Poems, 1928–1958, Stanley Kunitz
- 1960
- Heart's Needle, William Snodgrass
- 1961
- Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades, Phyllis McGinley
- 1962
- Poems, Alan Dugan
- 1963
- Pictures From Breughel, William Carlos
Williams
- 1964
- At the End of the Open Road, Louis Simpson
- 1965
- 77 Dream Songs, John Berryman
- 1966
- Selected Poems, Richard Eberhart
- 1967
- Live or Die, Anne Sexton
- 1968
- The Hard Hours, Anthony Hecht
- 1969
- Of Being Numerous, George Oppen
- 1970
- Untitled Subjects, Richard Howard
- 1971
- The Carrier of Ladders, William S. Merwin
- 1972
- Collected Poems, James Wright
- 1973
- Up Country, Maxine Winokur Kumin
- 1974
- The Dolphin, Robert Lowell
- 1975
- Turtle Island, Gary Snyder
- 1976
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashbery
- 1977
- Divine Comedies, James Merrill
- 1978
- Collected Poems, Howard Nemerov
- 1979
- Now and Then: Poems, 1976–1978, Robert Penn Warren
- 1980
- Selected Poems, Donald Rodney Justice
- 1981
- The Morning of the Poem, James Schuyler
- 1982
- The Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath
- 1983
- Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell
- 1984
- American Primitive, Mary Oliver
- 1985
- Yin, Carolyn Kizer
- 1986
- The Flying Change, Henry Taylor
- 1987
- Thomas and Beulah, Rita Dove
- 1988
- Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, William Meredith
- 1989
- New and Collected Poems, Richard Wilbur
- 1990
- The World Doesn't End, Charles Simic
- 1991
- Near Changes, Mona Van Duyn
- 1992
- Selected Poems, James Tate
- 1993
- The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck
- 1994
- Neon Vernacular, Yusef Komunyakaa
- 1995
- Simple Truth, Philip Levine
- 1996
- The Dream of the Unified Field, Jorie Graham
- 1997
- Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, Lisel Mueller
- 1998
- Black Zodiac, Charles Wright
- 1999
- Blizzard of One, Mark Strand
- 2000
- Repair, C. K. Williams
- 2001
- Different Hours: Poems, Stephen Dunn
- 2002
- Practical Gods, Carl Dennis
- 2003
- Moy Sand and Gravel, Paul Muldoon
- 2004
- Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright
- 2005
- Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser
- 2006
- Late Wife, Claudia Emerson
- 2007
- Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey
- 2008
- Failure, Philip Schultz
Time and Materials, Robert Hass- 2009
- The Shadow of Sirius, W.S. Merwin
- 2010
- Versed, Rae Armantrout
- 2011
- The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Kay Ryan
- 2012
- Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith
- 2013
- Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds
- 2014
- 3 Sections, Vijay Seshadri
- 2015
- Digest, Gregory Pardlo
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