Winners
- Howard Nemerov (1968, for The Blue Swallows)
- Robert Penn Warren (1971, for Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968)
- Donald Finkel (1974, for Adequate Earth)
- Richard Hugo (1976, for What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American)
- John Ciardi (1986, for The Birds of Pompeii)
- Carolyn Kizer (1988, for The Nearness of You)
- Kimiko Hahn (1995, for Earshot)
- Frank Bidart (1998, for Desire)
- Sherrod Santos (2002, for The Pilot Star Elegies)
- Carl Phillips (2005, for The Rest of Love)
- Robert Pinsky (2008, for Gulf Music)
- David Baker (2011, for Never-Ending Birds)
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