| Year |
Poet |
Book |
Judge |
| 2013 |
Chris Hosea |
Put Your Hands In (LSU Press) |
John Ashbery |
| 2012 |
Matt Rasmussen |
Black Aperture (LSU Press) |
Jane Hirshfield |
| 2011 |
Elana Bell |
Eyes, Stones (LSU Press) |
Fanny Howe |
| 2010 |
Carl Adamshick |
Curses and Wishes (LSU Press) |
Marvin Bell |
| 2009 |
J. Michael Martinez |
Heredities (LSU Press) |
Juan Felipe Herrera |
2008 |
Jonathan Thirkield |
The Waker's Corridor (LSU Press) |
Linda Bierds |
2007 |
Sally Van Doren |
Sex at Noon Taxes (LSU Press) |
August Kleinzahler |
| 2006 |
Anne Pierson Wiese |
Floating City (LSU Press) |
Kay Ryan |
| 2005 |
Mary Rose O'Reilley |
Half Wild (LSU Press) |
Mary Oliver |
| 2004 |
Geri Doran |
Resin (LSU Press) |
Henri Cole |
| 2003 |
Tony Tost |
Invisible Bride (LSU Press) |
C D. Wright |
| 2002 |
Sue Kwock Kim |
Notes from the Divided Country (LSU Press) |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
| 2001 |
John Canaday |
The Invisible World (LSU Press) |
Sherod Santos |
| 2000 |
Ben Doller |
Radio, Radio (LSU Press) |
Susan Howe |
| 1999 |
Judy Jordan |
Carolina Ghost Woods (LSU Press) |
James Tate |
| 1998 |
Jan Heller Levi |
Once I Gazed at You in Wonder (LSU Press) |
Alice Fulton |
| 1997 |
Barbara Ras |
Bite Every Sorrow (LSU Press) |
C. K. Williams |
| 1996 |
Joshua Clover |
Madonna anno domini (LSU Press) |
Jorie Graham |
| 1995 |
Nicole Cooley |
Resurrection (LSU Press) |
Cynthia Macdonald |
| 1994 |
Jan Richman |
Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything (LSU Press) |
Robert Pinsky |
| 1993 |
Alison Hawthorne Deming |
Science and Other Poems (LSU Press) |
Gerald Stern |
| 1992 |
Stephen Yenser |
The Fire in All Things (LSU Press) |
Richard Howard |
| 1991 |
Greg Glazner |
From the Iron Chair (W. W. Norton) |
Charles Wright |
| 1990 |
Elaine Terranova |
The Cult of the Right Hand (Doubleday) |
Rita Dove |
| 1989 |
Martha Hollander |
The Game of Statues (Atlantic Monthly Press) |
W.S. Merwin |
| 1988 |
April Bernard |
Blackbird Bye Bye (Random House) |
Amy Clampitt |
| 1987 |
Judith Baumel |
The Weight of Numbers (Wesleyan U. Press) |
Mona Van Duyn |
| 1986 |
Chris Llewellyn |
Fragments from the Fire (Viking) |
Maxine Kumin |
| 1985 |
Christianne Balk |
Bindweed (Macmillan) |
Anthony Hecht |
| 1984 |
Eric Pankey |
For the New Year (Atheneum) |
Mark Strand |
| 1983 |
Christopher Gilbert |
Across the Mutual Landscape (Graywolf Press) |
Michael S. Harper |
| 1982 |
Anthony Petrosky |
Jurgis Petraskas (Louisiana State University Press) |
Philip Levine |
| 1981 |
Alberto Ríos |
Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press) |
Donald Justice |
| 1980 |
Jared Carter |
Work, for the Night is Coming (Macmillan) |
Galway Kinnell |
| 1979 |
David Bottoms |
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (Morrow) |
Robert Penn Warren |
| 1978 |
Karen Snow |
Wonders (Viking) |
Louis Simpson |
| 1977 |
Lauren Shakely |
Guilty Bystander (Random House) |
Diane Wakoski |
| 1976 |
Laura Gilpin |
The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (Doubleday) |
William Stafford |
| 1975 |
Reg Saner |
Climbing into the Roots (Harper & Row) |
William Meredith |
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