2000s
- 2000: Don McKay, Another Gravity
- 2001: George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems
- 2002: Roy Miki, Surrender
- 2003: Tim Lilburn, Kill-site
- 2004: Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
- 2005: Anne Compton, Processional
- 2006: John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom
- 2007: Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged
- 2008: Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm
- 2009: David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn
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