AWARD-WINNING BOOKS: L

L.L. Winship Award (PEN New England)
2006—Louise Glück: Averno
2005—Stanley Kunitz: The Wild Braid
2004—Kevin Goodan: In the Ghost-House Acquainted
2000—Jay Wright: Transfigurations
1998—Donald Hall: Without
1991—Mary Oliver: House of Light

Lambda Literary Award (Lambda Literary Foundation)
2006—Sina Queyras: Lemon Hound  
2006—Jim Elledge: A History of My Tattoo  
2005—Richard Siken: Crush  
2005—June Jordan: Directed Desire: Collected Poems  
2004—Luis Cernuda: Written in Water  
2004—Beverly Burch: Sweet to Burn  
2003—Mark Bibbins: Sky Lounge  
2003—Minnie Bruce Pratt: The Dirt She Ate  
2002—J.D. McClatchy: Hazmat  
2002—Ellen Bass: Mules of Love  
2001—Mark Doty: Source  
2001—Adrienne Rich: Fox  
2000—Carl Phillips: Pastoral  
2000—Elena Georgiou: Mercy Mercy Me  
1999—Mark Wunderlich: The Anchorage  
1999—Richard Howard: Trappings  
1999—Olga Broumas: Rave  
1998—J.D. McClatchy: Ten Commandments  
1998—Gerry Gomez Pearlberg: Marianne Faithfull’s Cigarette  
1997—Cyrus Cassells: Beautiful Signor  
1997—Joan Larkin: Cold River  
1997—Eileen Myles: School of Fish  
1996—Rafael Campo: What the Body Told  
1996—Robin Becker: All-American Girl  
1995—Mark Doty: Atlantis  
1995—Adrienne Rich: Dark Fields of the Republic  
1994—Marilyn Hacker: Winter Numbers  
1994—Thom Gunn: Collected Poems  
1993—Audre Lorde: The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance  
1993—James Schuyler: Collected Poems  
1992—Audre Lorde: Undersong  
1992—Edward Field: Counting Myself Lucky  
1991—Adrienne Rich: An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991  
1991—Assoto Saint, ed.: The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets
1990—Marilyn Hacker: Going Back to the River  
1990—Michael Lassell: Decade Dance  
1989—Michael Klein, ed.: Poets for Life

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (Academy of American Poets)
2006—Eleanor Lerman: Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds   
2005—Anne Winters: The Displaced of Capital        
2004—Donald Revell: My Mojave    
2003—Eamon Grennan: Still Life with Waterfall     
2002—Madeline DeFrees: Blue Dusk            
2001—Fanny Howe: Selected Poems            
2000—David Ferry: Of No Country I Know
1999—Wanda Coleman: Bathwater Wine     
1998—Mark Jarman: Questions for Ecclesiastes       
1997—Robert Pinsky: The Figured Wheel
1996—Charles Wright: Chickamauga            
1995—Marilyn Hacker: Winter Numbers      
1994—W. S. Merwin: Travels            
1993—Thom Gunn: The Man with Night Sweats     
1992—Adrienne Rich: An Atlas of the Difficult World       
1991—John Haines: New Poems, 1980-88    
1990—Michael Ryan: God Hunger   
1989—Thomas McGrath: Selected Poems, 1938-1988         
1988—Josephine Jacobsen: The Sisters: New & Selected Poems      
1987—Donald Hall: The Happy Man            
1986—Howard Moss: New Selected Poems
1985—John Ashbery: A Wave           
1984—Josephine Miles: Collected Poems, 1930-83  
1983—George Starbuck: The Argot Merchant Disaster        
1982—John Logan: The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980         
1981—Sterling A. Brown: The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown       
1980—Stanley Kunitz: The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978    
1979—Hayden Carruth: Brothers, I Loved You All
1978—Allen Tate: Collected Poems, 1919-1976       
1977—Philip Levine: The Names of the Lost            
1976—Denise Levertov: The Freeing of the Dust     
1975—Cid Corman: O/I

Levis Reading Prize (Virginia Commonwealth University)
2006—Joshua Weiner: From the Book of Giants
2005—Ron Slate: The Incentive of the Maggot
2004—Spencer Reece: The Clerk's Tale
2003—David Daniel: Seven-Star Bird
2002—Susan Aizenberg: Muse
2001—Steve Scafidi: Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer
2000—Nick Flynn: Some Ether
1999—Joel Brouwer: Exactly What Happened
1998—Sandra Alcosser: Except by Nature
1997—Belle Waring: Dark Blonde

Library of Virginia Literary Award (Library of Virginia)

2006—Dabney Stuart: Family Preserve
2005—Ruth Stone: In the Dark
2004—Debra Nystrom: The Torn Sky
2003—Charles Wright: A Short History of the Shadow
2002—R.T. Smith: Messenger
2001—Eric Pankey: Cenotaph
2000—Eleanor Ross Taylor: Late Leisure
1999—Lou V. Crabtree: The River Hills & Beyond

Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Los Angeles Times)
2006—Frederick Seidel: Ooga-Booga
2005—Jack Gilbert: Refusing Heaven
2004—Richard Howard: Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003
2003—Anthony Hecht: Collected Later Poems
2002—Cynthia Zarin: The Watercourse
2001—Anne Carson: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
2000—Gjertrud Schnackenberg: The Throne of Labdacus
1999—C. K. Williams: Repair: Poems
1998—Alice Notley: Mysteries of Small Houses
1997—Charles Wright: Black Zodiac
1996—Alan Shapiro: Mixed Company
1995—Robert Pinsky: The Inferno of Dante
1994—Carolyn Forché: The Angel of History
1993—Mark Doty: My Alexandria
1992—Adrienne Rich: An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
1991—Phillip Levine: What Work Is
1990—John Caddy: The Color of Mesabi Bones
1989—Donald Hall: The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts
1988—Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems
1987—William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
1986—Derek Walcott: Collected Poems, 1948-1984
1985—X.J. Kennedy: Cross Ties
1984—Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems
1983—James Merrill: The Changing Light at Sandover
1982—Allen Ginsberg: Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980
1981—Ntozake Shange: Three Pieces
1980—Robert Kelly: Kill the Messenger