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The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.- 1922: Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1923: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 1924: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost
- 1925: The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1926: What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell
- 1927: Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
- 1928See also 1927 in literature, other events of 1928, 1929 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Ford Madox Ford publishes Last Post''. It is the final book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928. Point Counter: Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1929See also 1928 in literature, other events of 1929, 1930 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Candide by Voltaire was declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes is published.: John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet
- 1930See also 1929 in literature, other events of 1930, 1931 in literature, list of years in literature. Events November 5 Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is published. New Books Aphrodite in Auli: Selected Poems by Conrad AikenConrad Potter Aiken ( August 5 1889 August 17 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories and novels. When he was very young, his father killed his mother, then himself. Needless
- 1931See also 1930 in literature, other events of 1931, 1932 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Samuel Beckett publishes Proust " a collection of essays Cherokee playwright Lynn Rigg's play Green Grow the Lilacs premiers. It would later be adap: Collected Poems by Robert Frost
- 1932: The Flowering Stone by George Dillon
- 1933: Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish
- 1934: Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer
- 1935: Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann
- 1936: Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- 1937: A Further Range by Robert Frost
- 1938: Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska
- 1939: Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher
- 1940: Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren
- 1941: Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon
- 1942: The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet
- 1943: A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
- 1944: Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet
- 1945: V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro
- 1946: no award given
- 1947: Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
- 1948: The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
- 1949: Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
- 1950: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1951: Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
- 1952: Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
- 1953: Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
- 1954: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
- 1955: Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
- 1956: Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop
- 1957: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
- 1958: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
- 1959: Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
- 1960: Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
- 1961: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
- 1962: Poems by Alan Dugan
- 1963: Pictures from Breughel by William Carlos Williams
- 1964: At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson
- 1965: 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
- 1966: Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart
- 1967: Live or Die by Anne Sexton
- 1968: The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
- 1969: Of Being Numerous by George Oppen
- 1970: Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
- 1971: The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin
- 1972: Collected Poems by James Wright
- 1973: Up Country by Maxine Kumin
- 1974: The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
- 1975: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
- 1976: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
- 1977: Divine Comedies by James Merrill
- 1978: Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
- 1979: Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
- 1980: Selected Poems by Donald Justice
- 1981: The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
- 1982: The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
- 1983: Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
- 1984: American Primitive by Mary Oliver
- 1985: Yin by Carolyn Kizer
- 1986: The Flying Change by Henry Taylor
- 1987: Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
- 1988: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
- 1989: New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
- 1990: The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
- 1991: Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
- 1992: Selected Poems by James Tate
- 1993: The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
- 1994: Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
- 1995: The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
- 1996: The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham
- 1997: Live Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
- 1998: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
- 1999: Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
- 2000: Repair by C.K. Williams
- 2001: Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
- 2002: Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
- 2003: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
- 2004: Walking to Martha's Vineyard (BooksEnthsiast.com) by Franz Wright
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