2007 John Hollander
2006 Maxine Kumin
2005 Marie Ponsot
2004 Richard Howard
2002/2003 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2001/2002 Galway Kinnell
2000/2001 Sonia Sanchez
1999/2000 Anthony Hecht
1998/1999 Barbara Guest
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1996/1997 Josephine Jacobsen
1995/1996 Richard Wilbur
1994/1995 John Ashbery
1993/1994 A.R. Ammons
1992/1993 William Stafford
1991/1992 Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow
1990/1991 Donald Hall
1989/1990 Denise Levertov / James Laughlin
1988/1989 Gwendolyn Brooks
1987/1988 Carolyn Kizer
1986/1987 Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
1985/1986 Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart
1984/1985 Robert Penn Warren (75th Birthday Celebration)
1983/1984 Jack Stadler
1976 A.M. Sullivan
1974 John Hall Wheelock
1971 Melville Cane
1967 Marianne Moore
1955 Leona Speyer
1952 Carl Sandburg
1951 Wallace Stevens
1947 Gustav Davidson
1943 Edna St. Vincent Millay
1942 Edgar Lee Masters
1941 Robert Frost
1930 In Memory of Bliss Carmen
1930 In memory of George Edward Woodberry
1930 Jessie Rittenhouse
2007 Kimiko Hahn
2006 George Stanley
2005 Lyn Hejinian
2004 Yusef Komunyakaa
2002/2003 James McMichael
2001/2002 Angela Jackson / Marie Ponsot
2000/2001 Alice Notley / Michael Palmer
1999/2000 Jean Valentine
1998/1999 Tom Sleigh
1997/1998 Eleanor Ross Taylor
1996/1997 Frank Bidart
1995/1996 Robert Pinsky / Anne Waldman
1994/1995 Stanley Kunitz
1993/1994 Kenneth Koch / Cathy Song
1992/1993 Josephine Jacobsen
1991/1992 Lucille Clifton
1990/1991 Shirley Kaufman
1989/1990 Thom Gunn
1988/1989 Thomas McGrath / Theodore Weiss
1987/1988 Dennis Schmitz
1986/1987 Mona Van Duyn
1985/1986 Gary Snyder
1984/1985 Etheridge Knight
1983/1984 Denise Levertov / Robert Duncan
1982/1983 Jon Anderson / Leo Connellan
1981/1982 Alan Dugan
1980/1981 Robert Creeley
1979/1980 Julia Randall
1978/1979 Hayden Carruth
1977/1978 Jane Cooper / William Everson
1976/1977 Muriel Rukeyser
1975/1976 Gwendolyn Brooks
1974/1975 Edward Field
1973/1974 W.S. Merwin
1972/1973 John Ashbery / Richard Wilbur
1971/1972 Galway Kinnel
1970/1971 Adrienne Rich / Louise Townsend Nicholl
1969/1970 X.J. Kennedy / Mary Oliver
1968/1969 Anne Stanford
1967/1968 May Swenson
1966/1967 Anne Sexton
1965/1966 David Ignatow
1964/1965 Ruth Stone
1963/1964 William Stafford
1962/1963 Eric Barker
1961/1962 Theodore Roethke
1960/1961 Robinson Jeffers
1959/1960 Delmore Schwartz
1958/1959 Rose Garcia Villa
1957/1958 Kenneth Rexroth
1956/1957 George Abbe
1955/1956 Robert Fitzgerald
1954/1955 Leonie Adams
1953/1954 Kenneth Patchen
1952/1953 Elizabeth Bishop
1951/1952 Richard Eberhardt
1950/1951 Jeremy Ingalls
1949/1950 Louis Kent
1948/1949 John Berryman
1947/1948 Janet Lewis
1946/1947 Rolfe Humphries
1945/1946 Karl Shapiro
1944/1945 e.e. cummings
1943/1944 Edgar Lee Masters
1942/1943 Robert Penn Warren
1941/1942 Ridgely Torrence
1940/1941 Marianne Moore
1939/1940 Herbert Bruncken / Winfield T. Scott
1938/1939 Robert Francis / Harry Bown
1937/1938 Lincoln Fitzell
1936/1937 Charlotte Wilder / Ben Belitt
1935/1936 Josephine Miles
1934/1935 Lola Ridge / Marya Zaturenska
1933/1934 Lola Ridge / Frances Frost
1931/1932 Archibald MacLeish
1930/1931 Lizette Woodworth Reese
1929/1930 Conrad Aiken
