- 1950: William Carlos Williams – Paterson: Book III 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
- 1972: 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
- 1974: 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
- 1983: Charles Wright – Country Music: Selected Early Poems
- 1985: No Award
- 1986: No Award
- 1987: No Award
- 1988: No Award
- 1989: No Award
- 1990: No Award
- 1991: Philip Levine – What Work Is
- 1992: Mary Oliver – New & 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 & Whiskey
- 1997: William Meredith – Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
- 1998: Gerald Stern – This Time: New and Selected Poems
- 1999: Ai – Vice: New & 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 & Selected Poems
- 2006: Nathaniel Mackey – Splay Anthem
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