Year | Poet | Book | Judge |
2023 |
Sara Daniele Rivera | The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press) | Eduardo C. Corral |
2022 |
Kweku Abimbola | Saltwater Demands a Psalm (Graywolf Press) | Tyehimba Jess |
2021 |
Kemi Alabi | Againist Heaven (Graywolf Press) | Claudia Rankine |
2020 |
Threa Almontaser | The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press) | Harryette Mullen |
2019 |
Leah Naomi Green | The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press) | Li-Young Lee[12] |
2018 |
Emily Skaja | Brute (Graywolf Press) | Joy Harjo |
2017 |
Jenny Xie | Eye Level (Graywolf Press) | Juan Felipe Herrera |
2016 |
Mai Der Vang | Afterland (Graywolf Press) | Carolyn Forché |
2015 |
Sjohnna McCray | Rapture (Graywolf Press) | Tracy K. Smith |
2014 |
Hannah Sanghee Park[13] | The Same-Different (LSU Press) | Rae Armantrout |
2013 |
Chris Hosea | Put Your Hands In (LSU Press) | John Ashbery |
2012 |
Matt Rasmussen | Black Aperture (LSU Press) | Jane Hirshfield |
2011 |
Elana Bell[14] | Eyes, Stones (LSU Press) | Fanny Howe |
2010 |
Carl Adamshick | Curses and Wishes (LSU Press) | Marvin Bell |
2009 |
J. Michael Martinez[15] | Heredities (LSU Press)[16] |
Juan Felipe Herrera |
2008 |
Jonathan Thirkield[17] | The Waker's Corridor (LSU Press) | Linda Bierds |
2007 |
Sally Van Doren[18] | Sex at Noon Taxes (LSU Press) | August Kleinzahler |
2006 |
Anne Pierson Wiese[19] | Floating City (LSU Press) | Kay Ryan |
2005 |
Mary Rose O'Reilley | Half Wild (LSU Press) | Mary Oliver |
2004 |
Geri Doran | Resin (LSU Press) | Henri Cole |
2003 |
Tony Tost | Invisible Bride (LSU Press) | Carolyn D. Wright |
2002 |
Sue Kwock Kim[20] | Notes from the Divided Country (LSU Press) | Yusef Komunyakaa |
2001 |
John Canaday | The Invisible World (LSU Press) | Sherod Santos |
2000 |
Ben Doller | Radio, Radio (LSU Press) | Susan Howe |
1999 |
Judy Jordan | Carolina Ghost Woods (LSU Press) | James Tate |
1998 |
Jan Heller Levi | Once I Gazed at You in Wonder (LSU Press) | Alice Fulton |
1997 |
Barbara Ras | Bite Every Sorrow (LSU Press) | C. K. Williams |
1996 |
Joshua Clover | Madonna anno domini (LSU Press) | Jorie Graham |
1995 |
Nicole Cooley | Resurrection (LSU Press) | Cynthia Macdonald |
1994 |
Jan Richman | Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything (LSU Press) | Robert Pinsky |
1993 |
Alison Hawthorne Deming | Science and Other Poems (LSU Press) | Gerald Stern |
1992 |
Stephen Yenser | The Fire in All Things (LSU Press) | Richard Howard |
1991 |
Greg Glazner | From the Iron Chair (W. W. Norton) | Charles Wright |
1990 |
Elaine Terranova | The Cult of the Right Hand (Doubleday) | Rita Dove |
1989 |
Martha Hollander | The Game of Statues (Atlantic Monthly Press) | W.S. Merwin |
1988 |
April Bernard | Blackbird Bye Bye (Random House) | Amy Clampitt |
1987 |
Judith Baumel | The Weight of Numbers (Wesleyan U. Press) | Mona Van Duyn |
1986 |
Chris Llewellyn | Fragments from the Fire (Viking) | Maxine Kumin |
1985 |
Christianne Balk | Bindweed (Macmillan) | Anthony Hecht |
1984 |
Eric Pankey | For the New Year (Atheneum) | Mark Strand |
1983 |
Christopher Gilbert[21] | Across the Mutual Landscape (Graywolf Press) | Michael S. Harper |
1982 |
Anthony Petrosky | Jurgis Petraskas (Louisiana State University Press) | Philip Levine |
1981 |
Alberto Ríos | Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press) | Donald Justice |
1980 |
Jared Carter[22] | Work, for the Night is Coming (Macmillan) | Galway Kinnell |
1979 |
David Bottoms | Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (Morrow) | Robert Penn Warren |
1978 |
Karen Snow[23] | Wonders (Viking) | Louis Simpson |
1977 |
Lauren Shakely | Guilty Bystander (Random House) | Diane Wakoski |
1976 |
Laura Crafton Gilpin | The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (Doubleday) | William Stafford |
1975 |
Reg Saner | Climbing into the Roots (Harper & Row) | William Meredith |