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The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are given annually in ten categories. To be eligible for one of the prizes a book must have been published in English within the last year. The most recent winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry is featured below, along with a complete list of all past winners of the prize. We also provide links to the winners of the other Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, and to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The most recent winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry 2007 - A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve (2008 winner will be announced April 2009)
All previous winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry 1980 - Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News by Robert Kelly
1981 - Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange
1982 - Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
1983 - The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill
1984 - The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson
1985 - Cross Ties by X. J. Kennedy
1986 - Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott
1987 - Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
1988 - New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
1989 - The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald Hall
1990 - The Color of Mesabi Bones by John Caddy
1991 - What Work Is by Philip Levine
1992 - An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
1993 - My Alexandria by Mark Doty
1994 - The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché
1995 - The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
1996 - Mixed Company by Alan Shapiro
1997 - Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
1998 - Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley
1999 - Repair: Poems by C. K. Williams
2000 - The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
2001 - The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
2002 - The Watercourse: Poems by Cynthia Zarin
2003 - Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht
2004 - Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963 - 2003 by Richard Howard
2005 - Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
2006 - Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
2007 - Old Heart by Stanley Plumly
2008 - Award will be announced April 2009
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The Official Website Of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize
(Please visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of all Book Awards on Happy Dead Trees.)
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