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Annual literary prize


The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1980 Robert Kelly Kill the Messenger Winner
1981 Ntozake Shange Three Pieces Winner
1982 Allen Ginsberg Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977–1980 Winner
1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Winner
1984 Charles Olson The Maximus Poems Winner
1985 X.J. Kennedy Cross Ties Winner
1986 Derek Walcott Collected Poems, 1948–1984 Winner
1987 William Meredith Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems Winner
1988 Richard Wilbur New and Collected Poems Winner
1989 Donald Hall The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts Winner
1990 John Caddy The Color of Mesabi Bones Winner
Marilyn Hacker Going Back to the River Finalist
Rita Dove Grace Notes: Poems
Gerald Stern Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems
Eamon Grennan What Light There Is
1991 Philip Levine What Work Is Winner
Jorie Graham Region of Unlikeness Finalist
Lynda Hull Star Ledger
George Evans Sudden Dreams: New and Selected Poems
Charles Wright The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
1992 Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 Winner
Gerald Stern Bread Without Sugar: Poems Finalist
Susan Prospere Sub Rosa: Poems
Sharon Olds The Father: Poems
Louise Glück The Wild Iris
1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria Winner
Christine Garren Afterworld Finalist
Charles Simic Hotel Insomnia: A Novel
Lawson Fusao Inada Legends from Camp: Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
1994 Carolyn Forché The Angel of History Winner
Susan Wheeler Bag O’ Diamonds: Poems Finalist
Dan Howell Lost Country
Jorie Graham Materialism: Poems
William Everson The Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems
1995 Robert Pinsky The Inferno of Dante Winner
Gregory Orr City of Salt Finalist
Gary Soto New and Selected Poems
Brigit Pegeen Kelly Song: Poems
Thomas Lux Split Horizon: Poems
1996 Alan Shapiro Mixed Company Winner
Jorie Graham Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 Finalist
Louise Glück Meadowlands
Stanley Kunitz Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
Robert Pinsky The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
Lucille Clifton The Terrible Stories: Poems
James McMichael The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996
Rodney Jones Things That Happen Once: New Poems
David Rivard Wise Poison: Poems
1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac Winner
Carol Muske-Dukes An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems Finalist
Peter Sacks Natal Command
James Galvin Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997
Tomaž Šalamun with Christopher Merrill The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems
1998 Alice Notley Mysteries of Small Houses Winner
Maureen Owen American Rush: Selected Poems Finalist
William S. Merwin The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative
Jim Harrison The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems
Donald Hall Without: Poems
1999 C. K. Williams Repair: Poems Winner
Tom Sleigh The Dreamhouse Finalist
Heather McHugh The Father of the Predicaments
Kathleen Peirce The Oval Hour: Poems
David St. John The Red Leaves of Night
2000 Gjertrud Schnackenberg The Throne of Labdacus Winner
Anne Carson Men in the Off Hours Finalist
Carl Phillips Pastoral
Nick Flynn Some Ether: Poems
Michael Collier The Ledge
2001 Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos Winner
Alice Fulton Felt: Poems Finalist
James Lasdun Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems
Pattiann Rogers Song of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001
Louise Glück The Seven Ages
2002 Cynthia Zarin The Watercourse: Poems Winner
J.D. McClatchy Hazmat Finalist
Terrance Hayes Hip Logic
John Koethe North Point North: New and Selected Poems
Harryette Mullen Sleeping With the Dictionary
2003 Anthony Hecht Collected Later Poems Winner
Rosanna Warren Departure: Poems Finalist
Kevin Young Jelly Roll: A Blues
Henri Cole Middle Earth: Poems
Charles Simic The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
2004 Richard Howard Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963–2003 Winner
Catherine Tufariello Keeping My Name Finalist
Spencer Reece The Clerk’s Tale: Poems
Joshua Mehigan The Optimist
Brigit Pegeen Kelly The Orchard
2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven: Poems Winner
Lucia Perillo Luck Is Luck: Poems Finalist
Donald Revell Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems
Marilyn Nelson The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems
Gail Mazur Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems
2006 Frederick Seidel Ooga-Booga Winner
Erin Belieu Black Box Finalist
Thom Satterlee Burning Wyclif: Poems
Michael Waters Darling Vulgarity: Poems
Adrian C. Louis Logorrhea: Poems
2007 Stanley Plumly Old Heart: Poems Winner
Jean Valentine Little Boat Finalist
Marvin Bell Mars Being Red
Elaine Equi Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems
Albert Goldbarth The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007
2008 Frank Bidart Watching the Spring Festival: Poems Winner
Cole Swensen Ours Finalist
Connie Voisine Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
Jorie Graham Sea Change: Poems
Marie Howe The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
2009 Brenda Hillman Practical Water Winner
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon ]Open Interval[ Finalist
Gabrielle Calvocoressi Apocalyptic Swing: Poems
Amy Gerstler Dearest Creature
Tom Healy What the Right Hand Knows
2010 Maxine Kumin Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990–2010 Winner
Craig Santos Perez From Unincorporated Territory: Saina Finalist
Yehoshua November God’s Optimism
Henri Cole Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems
Ed Roberson To See the Earth Before the End of the World
2011 Carl Phillips Double Shadow: Poems Winner
Bruce Smith Devotions Finalist
Dawn Lundy Martin Discipline
Jim Harrison Songs of Unreason
Linda Norton The Public Gardens: Poems and History
2012 Louise Glück Poems 1962–2012 Winner
Bin Ramke Aerial Finalist
Cole Swensen Gravesend
Rowan Ricardo Phillips The Ground: Poems
D. A. Powell Useless Landscape: or A Guide for Boys: Poems
2013 Ron Padgett Collected Poems Winner
Lynn Xu Debts & Lessons Finalist
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Hello, the Roses
Elizabeth Robinson On Ghosts
Joshua Beckman The Inside of an Apple
2014 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric Winner
Katie Ford Blood Lyrics: Poem Finalist
Peter Gizzi In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011
Gillian Conoley Peace
Fred Moten The Feel Trio
2015 Jorie Graham From the New World: Poems 1976–2014 Winner
Rick Barot Chord Finalist
Jean Valentine Shirt in Heaven
Fiona Sze-Lorrain The Ruined Elegance
Robin Coste Lewis Voyage of the Sable Venus
2016 Rosmarie Waldrop Gap Gardening: Selected Poems Winner
Robyn Schiff A Woman of Property Finalist
Ishion Hutchinson House of Lords and Commons: Poems
Phillis Levin Mr. Memory & Other Poems
Jane Mead World of Made and Unmade
2017 Patricia Smith Incendiary Art: Poems Winner
Alessandra Lynch Daylily Called it A Dangerous Moment Finalist
David Wojahn For the Scribe
Shane McCrae In the Language of my Captor
Evie Shockley semiautomatic
2018 Carl Phillips Wild is the Wind: Poems Winner
Jos Charles Feeld Finalist
Terrance Hayes American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Diana Khoi Nguyen Ghost Of
Diane Seuss Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
2019 Ilya Kaminsky Deaf Republic: Poems Winner
Reginald Dwayne Betts Felon Finalist
Sally Wen Mao Oculus
Mary Ruefle Dunce
Carmen Gimenez Smith Be Recorder
2020 Victoria Chang Obit Winner
Anthony Cody Borderland Apocrypha Finalist
Nikky Finney Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts
Natalie Diaz Postcolonial Love Poem
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Age of Phillis
2021 Diane Seuss frank: sonnets Winner
CM Burroughs Master Suffering Finalist
Rita Dove Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Martín Espada Floaters: Poems
Mai Der Vang Yellow Rain: Poems
2022 Dionne Brand Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems Winner
James Cagney Martian: The Saint of Loneliness Finalist
Marwa Helal Ante Body
Cynthia Parker-Ohene Daughters of Harriet: Poems
Solmaz Sharif Customs: Poems
2023 Airea D. Matthews Bread and Circus: Poems Winner
K. Iver Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco Finalist
Maggie Millner Couplets: A Love Story
Jenny Molberg The Court of No Record: Poems
Simon Shieh Master: Poems

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