| 2024 |
Brandon Som |
| 2023 |
Carl Phillips |
| 2022 |
Diane Seuss — frank: sonnets |
| 2021 |
Natalie Diaz — Postcolonial Love Poem |
| 2020 |
Jericho Brown — The Tradition |
| 2019 |
Forrest Gander |
| 2018 |
Frank Bidart — Half-light |
| 2017 |
Tyehimba Jess — Olio |
| 2016 |
Peter Balakian — Ozone Journal |
| 2015 |
Gregory Pardlo |
| 2014 |
Vijay Seshadri |
| 2013 |
Sharon Olds |
| 2012 |
Tracy K. Smith — Life on Mars |
| 2011 |
Kay Ryan |
| 2010 |
Rae Armantrout — Versed |
| 2009 |
W. S. Merwin — The Shadow of Sirius |
| 2008 |
Philip Schultz
Robert Hass — Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 |
| 2007 |
Natasha Trethewey — Native Guard |
| 2006 |
Claudia Emerson |
| 2005 |
Ted Kooser |
| 2004 |
Franz Wright |
| 2003 |
Paul Muldoon |
| 2002 |
Carl Dennis |
| 2001 |
Stephen Dunn — Different Hours |
| 2000 |
C. K. Williams |
| 1999 |
Mark Strand |
| 1998 |
Charles Wright |
| 1997 |
Lisel Mueller |
| 1996 |
Jorie Graham |
| 1995 |
Philip Levine |
| 1994 |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
| 1993 |
Louise Glück — The Wild Iris |
| 1992 |
James Tate |
| 1991 |
Mona Van Duyn — Near Changes |
| 1990 |
Charles Simic — The World Doesn't End |
| 1989 |
Richard Wilbur |
| 1987 |
Rita Dove |
| 1986 |
Henry S. Taylor |
| 1985 |
Carolyn Kizer |
| 1984 |
Mary Oliver — American primitive |
| 1983 |
Galway Kinnell |
| 1982 |
Sylvia Plath |
| 1981 |
James Schuyler |
| 1980 |
Donald Justice |