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Pulitzers in Poetry: Home

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, 2018. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224.

SSPL Holdings
(1918 - present)

Winners from Other Years
(1960 - present)

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304)
to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!

Winners from Other Years
(1918 - 1959)