- 2006: Troy Jollimore – Tom Thomson in Purgatory
- 2005: Jack Gilbert – Refusing Heaven
- 2004: Adrienne Rich – The School Among the Ruins
- 2003: Susan Stewart – Columbarium
- 2002: B.H. Fairchild – Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
- 2001: Albert Goldbarth – Saving Lives
- 2000: Judy Jordan – Carolina Ghost Woods
- 1999: Ruth Stone – Ordinary Words
- 1998: Marie Ponsot – The Bird Catcher
- 1997: Charles Wright – Black Zodiac
- 1996: Robert Hass – Sun Under Wood
- 1995: William Matthews – Time and Money
- 1994: Mark Rudman – Rider
- 1993: Mark Doty – My Alexandria
- 1992: Hayden Carruth – Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
- 1991: Albert Goldbarth – Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
- 1990: Amy Gerstler – Bitter Angel
- 1989: Rodney Jones – Transparent Gestures
- 1988: Donald Hall – That One Day
- 1987: C.K. Williams – Flesh and Blood
- 1986: Edward Hirsch – Wild Gratitude
- 1985: Louise Gluck – The Triumph of Achilles
- 1984: Sharon Olds – The Dead and the Living
- 1983: James Merrill – The Changing Light at Sandover
- 1982: Katha Pollitt – Antarctic Traveler
- 1981: A.R. Ammons – A Coast of Trees
- 1980: Frederick Seidel – Sunrise
- 1979: Philip Levine – Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
- 1978: L. E. Sissman – Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
- 1977: Robert Lowell – Day by Day
- 1976: Elizabeth Bishop – Geography III
- 1975: John Ashberry – Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror
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