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home programs publishers contests opportunities resources site map contact             AWARD-WINNING BOOKS: P Paterson Poetry Prize (Passaic County Community College Poetry Center) 2007—Christopher Bursk: The First Inhabitants of Arcadia 2007—Patricia Smith: Teahouse of the Almighty 2006—Luis J. Rodriguez: My Nature is Hunger 2005—Philip Levine: Breath 2004—Kevin Young: Jelly Roll 2003—Sharon Olds: The Unswept Room 2002—Carolyn Kizer: Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems 1960–2000 2001—Stanley Kunitz: Collected Poems 2000—Sharon Olds: Blood, Tin, Straw 2000—Marge Piercy: The Art of Blessing the Day 1999—Billy Collins: Picnic, Lightning 1998—Toi Derricotte: Tender 1998—Diana Der-Hovanessian: The Circle Dancers 1997—Alicia Ostriker: The Crack in Everything 1996—Sandra M. Gilbert: Ghost Volcano 1995—Hayden Carruth: Collected Longer Poems PEN/Beyond Margins Award (PEN American Center) 2007—Harryette Mullen: Recyclopedia 2007—Alberto Ríos: Theater of Night 2006—Richard Blanco: Directions to the Beach of the Dead 2006—Ed-Bok Lee: Real Karaoke People 2006—Jennifer Tseng: The Man With My Face 2005—Ishle Yi Park: The Temperature of This Water 2004—Willie Perdomo: Smoking Lovely 2002—Joy Harjo: A Map to the Next World 2002—Meena Alexander: Illiterate Heart PEN Center USA Literary Award (PEN Center USA West) 2006—Brian Turner: Here, Bullet 2005—Martha Ronk: In a Landscape of Having to Repeat 2004—Gabriel Spera: The Standing Wave 2003—Donald Revell: Arcady 2002—Norman Dubie: The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems 1967-2001 2001—Susan Rich: The Cartographer’s Tongue 2000—Aleida Rodríguez: Garden of Exile 1999—B.H. Fairchild: The Art of the Lathe 1998—Linda Bierds: The Profile Makers 1997—Bob Kaufman: Cranial Guitar 1996—Carl Rakosi: Poems 1923-1941 1995—Jack Gilbert: The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 1994—Jack Marshall: Sesame 1993—Thom Gunn: The Man with Night Sweats 1992—Czeslaw Milosz: Provinces 1991—Donald Revell: New Dark Ages 1990—Mei-Mei Berseenbrugge: Empathy 1989—Michael Palmer: Sun 1988—Robert Mezey: Evening Wind 1987—Timothy Steele: Sapphics against Anger 1986—Roberta Spear: Taking to Water 1985—David Antin: Tuning 1983—Thom Gunn: The Passages of Joy Poetry Center Book Award (San Francisco State University Poetry Center) 2005—Dara Wier: Reverse Rapture 2004—Adrienne Rich: The School Among the Ruins 2003—Fanny Howe: Gone 2002—Truong Tran: dust and conscience 2001—Anselm Hollo: Notes on the Attractions and Possibilites of Existence 2000—Kevin Davies: Comp. 1999—Cole Swensen: Try 1998—Elaine Equi: Voice Over 1997—Belle Waring: Dark Blonde 1996—Alicia Suskin Ostriker: The Crack in Everything 1995—Robert Wrigley: In the Bank of Beautiful Sins 1994—Jane Hirschfield: The October Palace 1993—Barbara Guest: Defensive Rapture 1992—Julia Randall: The Path to Fairview: New and Selected Poems 1991—C.D. Wright: String Light 1990—Carol Snow: Artist and Model 1989—Luis J. Rodriguez: Poems Across the Pavement 1989—Adrian C. Louis: Fire Water World 1988—Leslie Scalapino: way 1987—Lyn Hejinian: My Life 1986—Yusef Komunyakaa: I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head 1985—Ron Silliman: Paradise 1984—Jackson Mac Low: Bloomsday 1984—Diane Ward: Never Without One 1983—Larry Eigner: Water/Places/A Time 1983—Laura Moriarty: Persia 1982—Stephen Rodefer: Four Lectures 1982—Gloria Frym: Back to Forth 1981—Alice Notley: How Spring Comes 1981—John Hildebidle: The Old Chore 1980—Sharon Olds: Satan Says Poets’ Prize (Nicholas Roerich Museum) 2007—Brian Turner: Here Bullet 2006—Catherine Tufariello: Keeping My Name 2005—Robert Wrigley: Lives of the Animals 2004—X. J. Kennedy: The Lords of Misrule 2003—Betty Adcock: Intervale: New and Selected Poems 2003—Carolyn Kizer: Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 2002—Robert Mezey: Collected Poems 2001—Philip Booth: Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999 2000—Wendell Berry: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry 1999—Marilyn Nelson: The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems 1998—Sydney Lea: To the Bone: New and Selected Poems 1998—Leon Stokesbury: Autumn Rhythm: New and Selected Poems 1997—Josephine Jacobsen: In the Crevice of Time 1996—Marilyn Hacker: Selected Poems 1965-1990 1995—Jared Carter: After the Rain Posner Poetry Book Award (Council for Wisconsin Writers) 2006—Richard Swanson: Men in the Nude in Socks and Other Poems 2005—Robin Chapman: Images of a Complex World 2004—Alice D'Alessio: A Blessing of Trees 2003—Ronald Wallace: Long for This World  2002—David Steingass: Greatplains: A Prairie Lovesong 2001—Anne-Marie Cusac: The Mean Days 2000—C. Mikal Oness: Water Becomes Bone Pulitzer Prize (Columbia School of Journalism) 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 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: Poems 1976-1978 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—James Wright: Collected Poems 1971—W. S. Merwin: The Carrier of Ladders 1970—Richard Howard: Untitled Subjects 1969—George Oppen: Of Being Numerous 1968—Anthony Hecht: Hard Hours 1967—Anne Sexton: Live or Die 1966—Richard Eberhart: Selected Poems 1965—John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs 1964—Louis Simpson: At the End of the Open Road 1963—William Carlos Williams: Pictures From Brueghel 1962—Alan Dugan: Poems 1961—Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades 1960—William Snodgrass: Heart's Needle 1959—Stanley Kunitz: Selected Poems 1928-1958 1958—Robert Penn Warren: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 1957—Richard Wilbur: Things of This World 1956—Elizabeth Bishop: Poems-North & South 1955—Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems 1954—Theodore Roethke: The Waking 1953—Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems 1917- 1952 1952—Marianne Moore: Collected Poems 1951—Carl Sandburg: Complete Poems 1950—Gwendolyn Brooks: Annie Allen 1949—Peter Viereck: Terror and Decorum 1948—W. H. Auden: The Age of Anxiety 1947—Robert Lowell: Lord Weary's Castle 1946—Karl Shapiro: V-Letter and Other Poems 1944— Stephen Vincent Benet: Western Star 1943—Robert Frost: A Witness Tree 1942—William Rose Benet: The Dust Which Is God 1941—Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture 1940—Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems 1939—John Gould Fletcher: Selected Poems 1938—Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky 1937—Robert Frost: A Further Range 1936—Robert P. T. Coffin: Strange Holiness 1935—Audrey Wurdemann: Bright Ambush 1934—Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse 1933—Archibald MacLeish: Conquistador 1932—George Dillon: The Flowering Stone 1931—Robert Frost: Collected Poems 1930—Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems 1929—Stephen Vincent Benet: John Brown's Body 1928—Edwin Arlington Robinson: Tristram 1927—Leonora Speyer: Fiddler's Fare Well 1926—Amy Lowell: What's O'clock 1925—Edwin Arlington Robinson: The Man Who Died Twice 1924—Robert Frost: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes 1923—Edna St. Vincent Millay: Ballad of the Harp-Weaver 1922—Edwin Arlington Robinson: Collected Poems 1919—Margaret Widdemer: Old Road to Paradise 1919—Carl Sandburg: Corn Huskers 1918—Sara Teasdale: Love Songs