Prémio Pulitzer de Poesia

2025

Marie Howe

New and Selected Poems - A collection drawn from decades of work that mines the day-to-day modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness

2024

Brandon Som

Tripas: Poems - A collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage

2023

Carl Phillips

Then the War: And Selected Poems

2022

Diane Seuss

frank: sonnets - A virtuosic collection that inventively expands the sonnet form to confront the messy contradictions of contemporary America

2021

Natalie Diaz

Postcolonial Love Poem - A collection of tender

2020

Jericho Brown

The Tradition - A collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence.

2019

Forrest Gander

Be With - A collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss

2018

Frank Bidart

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 - A volume of unyielding ambition and remarkable scope that mixes long dramatic poems with short elliptical lyrics

2017

Tyehimba Jess

Olio - For a distinctive work that melds performance art with the deeper art of poetry to explore collective memory and challenge contemporary notions of race and identity.

2016

Peter Balakian

Ozone Journal - Poems that bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.

2015

Gregory Pardlo

Digest - Clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America

2014

Vijay Seshadri

3 Sections - A compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness

2013

Sharon Olds

Stag's Leap - A book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love

2012

Tracy K. Smith

Life on Mars - A collection of bold

2011

Kay Ryan

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems - A body of work spanning 45 years

2010

Rae Armantrout

Versed - A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness

2009

W. S. Merwin

The Shadow of Sirius - A collection of luminous

2008

Philip Schultz

Failure

2008

Robert Hass

Time and Materials

2007

Natasha Trethewey

Native Guard

2006

Claudia Emerson

Late Wife

2005

Ted Kooser

Delights & Shadows

2004

Franz Wright

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

2003

Paul Muldoon

Moy Sand and Gravel

2002

Carl Dennis

Practical Gods

2001

Stephen Dunn

Different Hours

2000

C. K. Williams

Repair

1999

Mark Strand

Blizzard of One

1998

Charles Wright

Black Zodiac

1997

Lisel Mueller

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

1996

Jorie Graham

The Dream of the Unified Field

1995

Philip Levine

The Simple Truth

1994

Yusef Komunyakaa

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

1993

Louise Glück

The Wild Iris

1992

James Tate

Selected Poems

1991

Mona Van Duyn

Near Changes

1990

Charles Simic

The World Doesn't End

1989

Richard Wilbur

New and Collected Poems

1988

William Meredith

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

1987

Rita Dove

Thomas and Beulah

1986

Henry Taylor

The Flying Change

1985

Carolyn Kizer

Yin

1984

Mary Oliver

American Primitive

1983

Galway Kinnell

Selected Poems

1982

Sylvia Plath

The Collected Poems

1981

James Schuyler

The Morning of the Poem

1980

Donald Justice

Selected Poems

1979

Robert Penn Warren

Now and Then

1978

Howard Nemerov

Collected Poems

1977

James Merrill

Divine Comedies

1976

John Ashbery

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

1975

Gary Snyder

Turtle Island

1974

Robert Lowell

The Dolphin

1973

Maxine Kumin

Up Country

1972