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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
C.K. Williams |
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
C.K. Williams |
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The National Book Awards are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens. The award for Poetry has been given since 1950 although no awards were made 1985-90.
| 2003 | C.K. Williams | The Singing |
| 2002 | Ruth Stone | In the Next Galaxy |
| 2001 | Alan Dugan | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
| 2000 | Lucille Clifton | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 |
| 1999 | Ai | Vice; New and Selected Poems |
| 1998 | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems |
| 1997 | William Meredith | Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems |
| 1996 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995 |
| 1995 | Stanley Kunitz | Passing Through |
| 1994 | James Tate | Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
| 1993 | A.R. Ammons | Garbage |
| 1992 | Mary Oliver | New and Selected Poems |
| 1991 | Philip Levine | What Work Is |
| 1990 | No Award | |
| 1989 | No Award | |
| 1988 | No Award | |
| 1987 | No Award | |
| 1986 | No Award | |
| 1985 | No Award | |
| 1984 | Charles Wright | Country Music |
| 1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems |
| 1982 | William Bronk | Life Supports |
| 1981 | Lisel Mueller | The Need to Hold Still |
| 1980 | Philip Levine | Ashes |
| 1979 | James Merrill | Mirabell: Books of Number |
| 1978 | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems |
| 1977 | Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems, 1930-1976 |
| 1976 | John Ashberry | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| 1975 | Marilyn Hacker | Presentation Piece |
| 1974 | Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971 |
| 1974 | Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972 |
| 1973 | A.R. Ammons | Collected Poems: 1951-1971 |
| 1972 | Howard Moss | Selected Poems |
| 1971 | Mona Van Duyn | To See, To Take |
| 1970 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Complete Poems |
| 1969 | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
| 1968 | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body |
| 1967 | James Merrill | Nights and Days |
| 1966 | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice |
| 1965 | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field |
| 1964 | John Crowe Ransom | Selected Poems |
| 1963 | William Stafford | Traveling Through the Dark |
| 1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems |
| 1961 | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| 1960 | Robert J. Lowell | Life Studies |
| 1959 | Theodore Roethke | Words for the Wind |
| 1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 |
| 1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of this World |
| 1956 | W.H. Auden | The Shield of Achilles |
| 1955 | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems |
| 1954 | Conrad Aiken | Collected Poems |
| 1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems: 1917-1952 |
| 1952 | Marianne Moore | Collected Poems |
| 1951 | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn |
| 1950 | William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems |
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