Poetry
For a list of winners and finalists, see National Book Award for Poetry.1950 | William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book Three 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 |
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 |
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 |
Charles Wright | Country Music: Selected Early Poems | |
1991 | Philip Levine | What Work Is |
1992 | Mary Oliver | New and 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 and Whiskey |
1997 | William Meredith | Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems |
1998 | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems |
1999 | Ai | Vice: New and 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 and Selected Poems |
2006 | Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem |
2007 | Robert Hass | Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 |
2008 | Mark Doty | Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems |
2009 | Keith Waldrop | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy |
2010 | Terrance Hayes | Lighthead |
2011 | Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split |
2012 | David Ferry | Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations |
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“I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.... Of all things of thought, poetry is the closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art ...”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)
“Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)