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The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.

Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.

Before the establishment of the award, the 1918 and 1919 Pulitzer cycles included three Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (called at the time the Columbia University Poetry Prize) for poetry books funded by "a special grant from The Poetry Society." See Special Pulitzers for Letters.

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. Robert Frost won the prize four times and several others won it more than once (below).

1920s–1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received two or more Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (The 1918 and 1919 Special Prizes are included):

The following individuals received two or more nominations:

Bolded years are years that the poet won

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.

See also

• American poetry
• List of poetry awards

References

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1922–1950	Edwin Arlington Robinson (1922) Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923) Robert Frost (1924) Edwin Arlington Robinson (1925) Amy Lowell (1926) Leonora Speyer (1927) Edwin Arlington Robinson (1928) Stephen Vincent Benét (1929) Conrad Aiken (1930) Robert Frost (1931) George Dillon (1932) Archibald MacLeish (1933) Robert Hillyer (1934) Audrey Wurdemann (1935) Robert P. T. Coffin (1936) Robert Frost (1937) Marya Zaturenska (1938) John Gould Fletcher (1939) Mark Van Doren (1940) Leonard Bacon (1941) William Rose Benét (1942) Robert Frost (1943) Stephen Vincent Benét (1944) Karl Shapiro (1945) Robert Lowell (1947) W. H. Auden (1948) Peter Viereck (1949) Gwendolyn Brooks (1950)
1951–1975	Carl Sandburg (1951) Marianne Moore (1952) Archibald MacLeish (1953) Theodore Roethke (1954) Wallace Stevens (1955) Elizabeth Bishop (1956) Richard Wilbur (1957) Robert Penn Warren (1958) Stanley Kunitz (1959) W. D. Snodgrass (1960) Phyllis McGinley (1961) Alan Dugan (1962) William Carlos Williams (1963) Louis Simpson (1964) John Berryman (1965) Richard Eberhart (1966) Anne Sexton (1967) Anthony Hecht (1968) George Oppen (1969) Richard Howard (1970) William S. Merwin (1971) James Wright (1972) Maxine Kumin (1973) Robert Lowell (1974) Gary Snyder (1975)
1976–2000	John Ashbery (1976) James Merrill (1977) Howard Nemerov (1978) Robert Penn Warren (1979) Donald Justice (1980) James Schuyler (1981) Sylvia Plath (1982) Galway Kinnell (1983) Mary Oliver (1984) Carolyn Kizer (1985) Henry S. Taylor (1986) Rita Dove (1987) William Meredith (1988) Richard Wilbur (1989) Charles Simic (1990) Mona Van Duyn (1991) James Tate (1992) Louise Glück (1993) Yusef Komunyakaa (1994) Philip Levine (1995) Jorie Graham (1996) Lisel Mueller (1997) Charles Wright (1998) Mark Strand (1999) C. K. Williams (2000)
2001–2025	Stephen Dunn (2001) Carl Dennis (2002) Paul Muldoon (2003) Franz Wright (2004) Ted Kooser (2005) Claudia Emerson (2006) Natasha Trethewey (2007) Robert Hass / Philip Schultz (2008) W. S. Merwin (2009) Rae Armantrout (2010) Kay Ryan (2011) Tracy K. Smith (2012) Sharon Olds (2013) Vijay Seshadri (2014) Gregory Pardlo (2015) Peter Balakian (2016) Tyehimba Jess (2017) Frank Bidart (2018) Forrest Gander (2019) Jericho Brown (2020) Natalie Diaz (2021) Diane Seuss (2022) Carl Phillips (2023) Brandon Som (2024)
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