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 from 1985 through 1990.
Winners[]
| 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
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