Voertman Award (Texas Institute of Letters)
1991—Andrew Hudgins: The Never-Ending
1990—Daryl Jones: Someone Going Home Late
1989—Pattiann Rogers: Splitting and Binding
1988—David Price: The Song of Things Begun
1987—Walter McDonald: The Flying Dutchman
1986—Edward Hirsch: Wild Gratitude
1985—Walter McDonald: Witching on Hardscrabble
1985—Andrew Hudgins: Saints and Strangers
1984—Rosemary Catacalos: Again for the First Time
1983—Albert Goldbarth: Original Light: New and Selected Poems, 1973-1983
1982—Naomi Shihab Nye: Hugging the Jukebox
1982—Thomas Whitbread: Whomp and Moonshiver
1981—Pattiann Rogers: The Expectations of Light
1980—Naomi Shihab Nye: Different Ways to Pray
1979—Albert Goldbarth: Different Fleshes
1978—Tess Gallagher: Under Stars
1978—Bin Ramke: The Difference Between Day and Night
1977—Jack Myers: The Family Wars
1976 —Walter McDonald: Caliban in Blue
1975—Keith Sprague: The Promise Kept
1974—Michael Ryan: Threats Instead of Trees
1973—Fania Kruger: Selected Poems
1972—Gene Shuford: Selected Poems
1971—Arthur M. Sampley: Selected Poems
1970—R.G. Vliet: the man with the black mouth
1969—Frances Alexander: Pebbles from a Broken Jar
1968—Gus Tavo: Ride the Pale Stallion
1967—Frederic Will: Planets
1966—Charlotte Baker: The Best of Friends

Violet Crown Book Award (Writers' League of Texas)
2006—Paul Christensen: Hard Country
2005—Lee Robinson: Hearsay
2004—Larry D. Thomas: Where Skulls Speak Wind
2003—Miles Wilson: Harm