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FOR POETRY 1975-2003 |
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Winners are selected by a 24-member board of critics from around the country. Books are often recommended to the board by about 600 general members of the Circle. The award for Poetry was first made in 1975.
| 2003 | Susan Stewart | Columbarium |
| 2002 | B.H. Fairchild | Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest |
| 2001 | Albert Goldbarth | Saving Lives: Poems |
| 2000 | Judy Jordan | Carolina Ghost Woods |
| 1999 | Ruth Stone | Ordinary Words |
| 1998 | Marie Ponsot | The Bird Catcher |
| 1997 | Charles Wright | Black Zodiac |
| 1996 | Robert Hass | Sun Under Wood |
| 1995 | William Matthews | Time and Money |
| 1994 | Mark Rudman | Rider |
| 1993 | Mark Doty | My Alexandria |
| 1992 | Hayden Carruth | Collected Shorter Poems |
| 1991 | Albert Goldbarth | Heaven and Earth |
| 1990 | Amy Gerstler | Bitter Angel |
| 1989 | Rodney Jones | Transparent Jestures |
| 1988 | Donald Hall | The One Day |
| 1987 | C.K. Williams | Flesh and Blood |
| 1986 | Edward Hirsch | Wild Gratitude |
| 1985 | Louise Gluck | The Triumph of Achilles |
| 1984 | Sharon Olds | The Dead and the Living |
| 1983 | James Merrill | The Changing Light at Sandover |
| 1982 | Katha Pollitt | Antarctic Traveler |
| 1981 | A.R. Ammons | A Coast of Trees |
| 1980 | Frederick Seidel | Sunrise |
| 1979 | Philip Levine | Ashes and Seven Years from Nowhere |
| 1978 | L.E. Sissman | Hello Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman |
| 1977 | Robert Lowell | Day by Day |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop | Geography III |
| 1975 | John Ashberry | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
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