List of Winners
The winners and final judges from 1994–2010 are posted on a webpage of The Formalist; References for subsequent winners are provided in the table.
| Year | Poet | Sonnet | Judge |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Robert W. Crawford | Odds Are | A. M. Juster |
| 2010 | Catherine Chandler | Coming to Terms | A. E. Stallings |
| 2009 | Richard Wakefield | Petrarch | David Middleton |
| 2008 | Stephen Scaer | Sightseers | Timothy Steele |
| 2007 | A. M. Juster | No | Frederick Turner |
| 2006 | Robert W. Crawford | The Empty Chair | Andrew Hudgins |
| 2005 | Marion Shore | Petrarch on West 115th Street | Charles Martin |
| 2004 | A. E. Stallings | Hank Williams Blues | Rachel Hadas |
| 2003 | Rhina Espaillat | Discovery | Dana Gioia |
| 2002 | Marion Shore | Embarking | Wyatt Prunty |
| 2001 | Deborah Warren | Baggage | X. J. Kennedy |
| 2000 | A. M. Juster | Note from Echo | W. D. Snodgrass |
| 1999 | Bob McKenty | Chain Poem | Wendy Cope |
| 1998 | Rhina Espaillat | Contingencies | John Frederick Nims |
| 1997 | Madeleine Mysko | Incipient Fireworks | Donald Justice |
| 1996 | Timothy Murphy | The Track of the Storm | Anthony Hecht |
| 1995 | A. M. Juster | Moscow Zoo | Mona Van Duyn |
| 1994 | Sarah Birnbaum | Jo Painted | Richard Wilbur |
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