Der National Book Award für Lyrik (National Book Award for Poetry) wird seit 1950 für den besten Gedichtband vergeben.

Craig Santos Perez, Preisträger 2023

Mit zwei Siegen am häufigsten ausgezeichnet wurden A. R. Ammons (1973, 1993), Alan Dugan (1962, 2001), Philip Levine (1980, 1991), James Merrill (1967, 1979), Theodore Roethke (1959, 1965) und Wallace Stevens (1951, 1955).

Zwischen 1984 und 1990 wurde kein Preis vergeben.

Preisträger

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Jahr Preisträger Titel Deutscher Titel
1950 William Carlos Williams The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
1951 Wallace Stevens The Auroras of Autumn
1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems
1953 Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems, 1917–1952
1954 Conrad Aiken Collected Poems
1955 Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Die Gedichte unseres Klimas
1956 W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles
1957 Richard Wilbur Things of the World
1958 Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems, 1954–1956
1959 Theodore Roethke Words for the Wind
1960 Robert Lowell Life Studies
1961 Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo
1962 Alan Dugan Poems
1963 William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark
1964 John Crowe Ransom Traveling Through the Dark
1965 Theodore Roethke The Far Field
1966 James Dickey Buckdancer’s Choice: Poems
1967 James Merrill Nights and Days
1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body
1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems
1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take
1972 Howard Moss Selected Poems
Frank O’Hara The Collected Works of Frank O’Hara
1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951–1971
1974 Allen Ginsberg The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965–1971 Der Untergang Amerikas: Gedichte 1965–1971
Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972
1975 Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece
1976 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror Selbstporträt im konvexen Spiegel
1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930–1976
1978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
1979 James Merrill Mirabell: Book of Numbers
1980 Philip Levine Ashes
1981 Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still Stimmen aus dem Wald
1982 William Bronk Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
1983 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems
Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems
1984–
1990
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1991 Philip Levine What Work Is
1992 Mary Oliver New & Selected Poems
1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage
1994 James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
1995 Stanley Kunitz Passing Through: The Later Poems
1996 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Poems 1991–1995
1997 William Meredith Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
1998 Gerald Stern This Time: New and Selected Poems
1999 Ai Vice: New & Selected Poems
2000 Lucille Clifton Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000
2001 Alan Dugan Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
2002 Ruth Stone In the Next Galaxy
2003 C. K. Williams The Singing
2004 Jean Valentine Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003
2005 W. S. Merwin Migration: New and Selected Poems
2006 Nathaniel Mackey Splay Anthem
2007 Robert Hass Time and Materials
2008 Mark Doty Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
2009 Keith Waldrop Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
2010 Terrance Hayes Lighthead
2011 Nikky Finney Head Off & Split
2012 David Ferry Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
2013 Mary Szybist Incarnadine
2014 Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night Treue und edle Nacht
2015 Robin Coste Lewis Voyage of the Sable Venus Die Reise der Schwarzen Venus
2016 Daniel Borzutzky The Performance of Becoming Human
2017 Frank Bidart Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016
2018 Justin Phillip Reed Indecency
2019 Arthur Sze Sight Lines
2020 Don Mee Choi DMZ Colony
2021 Martín Espada Floaters
2022 John Keene Punks: New & Selected Poems
2023 Craig Santos Perez from unincorporated territory [åmot]
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