• 1981 —
Kathy Callaway,
Heart of the Garfish • 1982 —
Lawrence Joseph,
Shouting at No One • 1983 —
Kate Daniels,
The White Wave • 1984 —
Arthur Smith,
Elegy on Independence Day • 1985 —
Liz Rosenberg,
The Fire Music • 1986 —
Robley Wilson,
Kingdoms of the Ordinary • 1987 —
David Rivard,
Torque • 1988 —
Maxine Scates,
Toluca Street • 1989 —
Nancy Vieira Couto,
The Face in the Water • 1990 —
Debra Allbery,
Walking Distance • 1991 —
Julia Kasdorf,
Sleeping Preacher • 1992 —
Hunt Hawkins,
The Domestic Life • 1993 —
Natasha Sajé,
Red Under the Skin • 1994 —
Jan Beatty,
Mad River • 1995 —
Sandy Solomon,
Pears, Lake, Sun • 1996 —
Helen Conkling,
Red Peony Night • 1997 —
Richard Blanco,
City of a Hundred Fires • 1998 —
Shara McCallum,
The Water Between Us • 1999 —
Daisy Fried, ''She Didn't Mean To Do It'' • 2000 —
Quan Barry,
Asylum • 2001 —
Gabriel Gudding,
A Defense of Poetry • 2002 —
Shao Wei, ''Pulling a Dragon's Teeth'' • 2003 —
David Shumate,
High Water Mark • 2004 —
Aaron Smith,
Blue on Blue Ground • 2005 —
Rick Hilles,
Brother Salvage: Poems • 2006 —
Nancy Krygowski,
Velocity • 2007 —
Michael McGriff,
Dismantling the Hills • 2008 —
Cheryl Dumesnil,
In Praise of Falling • 2009 —
Bobby C. Rogers,
Paper Anniversary • 2010 —
Glenn Shaheen,
Predatory • 2011 —
Dore Kiesselbach,
Salt Pier • 2012 —
Kasey Jueds,
Keeper • 2013 —
Sarah Rose Nordgren,
Best Bones • 2014 — Nate Marshall,
Wild Hundreds • 2017 —
Tiana Clark, ''I Can't Talk About Trees Without the Blood'' • 2018 — Ryan Black,
The Tenant of Fire • 2019 — Eleanor Boudreau,
Earnest, Earnest? • 2020 — Laura Kolbe,
Little Pharma • 2021 — Anuradha Bhowmik,
Brown Girl Chromatography • 2022 - 2023 — Ryler Dustin,
Trailer Park Psalms • 2024 — Nathan Xavier Osorio,
Querida • 2025 — Bobby Elliot,
The Same Man ==Notes==