The latest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is featured below, along with a complete list of all previous winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. We also provide links to other Pulitzers, and to our index of dozens of book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.

The latest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

2008 - Time and Materials by Robert Hass  &  Failure by Philip Schultz (2009 winner will be announced April 2009)

All previous winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

1922 - Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

1923 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry 1922 A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay

1924 - New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost

1925 - The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson

1926 - What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell

1927 - Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer

1928 - Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson

1929 - John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet

1930 - Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

1931 - Collected Poems by Robert Frost

1932 - The Flowering Stone by George Dillon

1933 - Conquistador by Archibald Macleish

1934 - Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer

1935 - Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann

1936 - Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

1937 - A Further Range by Robert Frost

1938 - Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska

1939 - Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher

1940 - Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren

1941 - Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon

1942 - The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet

1943 - A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

1944 - Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet

1945 - V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

1946 - No Award

1947 - Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell

1948 - The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden

1949 - Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck

1950 - Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

1951 - Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg

1952 - Collected Poems by Marianne Moore

1953 - Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish

1954 - The Waking by Theodore Roethke

1955 - Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

1956 - Poems - North and South - A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop

1957 - Things of This World by Richard Wilbur

1958 - Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren

1959 - Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz

1960 - Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

1961 - Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley

1962 - Poems by Alan Dugan

1963 - Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

1964 - At the End of the Open Road by Louis Simpson