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Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: Poetry

Includes winning titles from the Fiction/Novel, Nonfiction, History, Biography/Memoir, Drama, and Poetry categories

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry was first awarded in 1918, originally through a grant from The Poetry Society.
It is awarded for “a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.”

“Poetry.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224.

SSPL Holdings (2009 - present)

SSPL Holdings (1972 - 2008)

Winners from Other Years (1961 - present)

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Winners from Other Years (1918 - 1960)