- National Book Award for Poetry
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The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens. No award for poetry was given 1985-90.
If more than one author is listed for a given year, the first in bold is the winner, the remainder finalists.
Winners
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2011 Nikky Finney Head Off & Split Yusef Komunyakaa The Chameleon Couch Carl Phillips Double Shadow Adrienne Rich Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems: 2007-2010 Bruce Smith Devotions 2010 Terrance Hayes Lighthead 2009 Keith Waldrop Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy 2008 Mark Doty Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems 2007 Robert Hass Time and Materials 2006 Nathaniel Mackey Splay Anthem 2005 W. S. Merwin Migration: New & Selected Poems 2004 Jean Valentine Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 2003 C. K. Williams The Singing 2002 Ruth Stone In the Next Galaxy 2001 Alan Dugan Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry 2000 Lucille Clifton Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 1999 Ai Vice: New & Selected Poems 1998 Gerald Stern This Time: New and Selected Poems 1997 William Meredith Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems 1996 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey 1995 Stanley Kunitz Passing Through: The Later Poems 1994 James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers 1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage 1992 Mary Oliver New & Selected Poems 1991 Philip Levine What Work Is 1990 No Award 1989 No Award 1988 No Award 1987 No Award 1986 No Award 1985 No Award 1983 Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems 1983 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems 1982 William Bronk Life Supports: New and Collected Poems 1981 Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still 1980 Philip Levine Ashes : poems new & old 1979 James Merrill Mirabell: Book of Numbers 1978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov 1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1976 1976 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror 1975 Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece 1974 Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 1974 Allen Ginsberg The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951-1971 1972 Howard Moss Selected Poems 1972 Frank O'Hara The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara 1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take 1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems 1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest 1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body 1967 James Merrill Nights and Days 1966 James Dickey Buckdancer's Choice: Poems 1965 Theodore Roethke The Far Field 1964 John Crowe Ransom Selected Poems 1963 William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark 1962 Alan Dugan Poems 1961 Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo 1960 Robert Lowell Life Studies 1959 Theodore Roethke Words for the Wind 1958 Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 1957 Richard Wilbur Things of This World 1956 W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles 1955 Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens 1954 Conrad Aiken Collected Poems 1953 Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems, 1917-1952 1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems 1951 Wallace Stevens The Auroras of Autumn 1950 William Carlos Williams Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems See also
- Poetry of the United States
- List of poetry awards
- List of literary awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- American literature
External links
- [1] National Book Foundation Web site
Categories:- National Book Award
- Poetry awards
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