| Year |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Result |
Ref. |
| 2001 |
Thom Gunn |
Boss Cupid |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Winner |
|
| Carl Phillips |
Pastoral |
Graywolf Press |
Finalist |
|
| Griffin Hansbury |
Day for Night |
Painted Leaf Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2002 |
Mark Doty |
Source |
HarperCollins |
Winner |
|
| Billeh Nickerson |
The Asthmatic Glassblower |
Arsenal Pulp Press |
Finalist |
|
| Justin Chin |
Harmless Medicine |
Manic D Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2003 |
Greg Hewett |
Red Suburb |
Coffee House Press |
Winner |
|
| David Groff |
Theory of Devolution |
University of Illinois Press |
Finalist |
|
| Rafael Campo |
Landscape with Human Figure |
Duke University Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2004 |
Brian Teare |
The Room Where I Was Born |
University of Wisconsin Press |
Winner |
[2] |
| Patrick Donnelly |
The Change |
Ausable Press |
Finalist |
|
| Peter Pereira |
Saying the World |
Copper Canyon Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2005 |
Carl Phillips |
The Rest of Love |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Winner |
|
| D. A. Powell |
Cocktails |
Graywolf Press |
Finalist |
|
| Ron Mohring |
Survivable World |
Word Works |
Finalist |
|
| 2006 |
Richard Siken |
Crush |
Yale University Press |
Winner |
[3] |
| Frank Bidart |
Star Dust |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Finalist |
|
| Peter Covino |
Cut Off the Ears of Winter |
New Issues |
Finalist |
|
| 2007 |
Justin Chin |
Gutted |
Manic D Press |
Winner |
[4] |
| Greg Hewett |
The Eros Conspiracy |
Coffee House Press |
Finalist |
|
| Jim Elledge |
A History of My Tattoo |
Stonewall |
Finalist |
|
| 2008 |
Daniel Hall |
Under Sleep |
University of Chicago Press |
Winner |
[5] |
| Steve Fellner |
Blind Date with Cafavy |
Marsh Hawk Press |
Winner |
[5] |
| Henri Cole |
Blackbird and Wolf |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Finalist |
|
| 2009 |
Ely Shipley |
Boy with Flowers |
Barrow Street Press |
Winner |
[6] |
| Jericho Brown |
Please |
New Issues |
Finalist |
|
| Mark Doty |
Fire to Fire |
Harper/HarperCollins |
Finalist |
|
| 2010 |
Ronaldo V. Wilson |
Poems of the Black Object |
Futurepoem Books |
Winner |
|
| Brent Goodman |
The Brother Swimming Beneath Me |
Black Lawrence Press |
Finalist |
|
| D. A. Powell |
Chronic |
Graywolf Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2011 |
Michael Walsh |
The Dirt Riddles |
University of Arkansas Press |
Winner |
[7] |
| Eric Leigh |
Harm's Way |
University of Arkansas Press |
Finalist |
|
| Paul Legault |
The Madeleine Poems |
Omnidawn |
Finalist |
|
| 2012 |
Henri Cole |
Touch |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Winner |
|
| Brad Richard |
Motion Studies |
The Word Works |
Finalist |
|
| Christopher Hennessy |
Love-in-Idleness |
Brooklyn Arts Press |
Finalist |
|
| Tim Dlugos |
A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos |
Nightboat Books |
Finalist |
|
| 2013 |
Richard Blanco |
Looking for the Gulf Motel |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
Winner |
[8] |
| Aaron Smith |
Appetite |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
Finalist |
|
| Eduardo C. Corral |
Slow Lightning |
Yale University Press |
Finalist |
|
| Stephen S. Mills |
He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices |
Sibling Rivalry Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2014 |
Charlie Bondhus |
All the Heat We Could Carry |
Main Street Rag |
Winner |
[9][10][11] |
| L. Lamar Wilson |
Sacrilegion |
Carolina Wren Press |
Finalist |
[12] |
| Michael Klein |
The Talking Day |
Sibling Rivalry Press |
Finalist |
[12] |
| Rigoberto González |
Unpeopled Eden |
Four Way Books |
Finalist |
[12] |
| 2015 |
Jericho Brown |
The New Testament |
Copper Canyon Press |
Winner |
[13] |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini; edited and trans. by Stephen Sartarelli |
The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition |
University of Chicago Press |
Finalist |
|
| Roberto Montes |
I Don't Know Do You |
Ampersand Books |
Finalist |
|
| Saeed Jones |
Prelude to Bruise |
Coffee House Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2016 |
Rick Barot |
Chord |
Sarabande Books |
Winner |
[14] |
| Oliver Bendorf |
The Spectral Wilderness |
Kent State University Press |
Finalist |
|
| Rickey Laurentiis |
Boy with Thorn |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
Finalist |
|
| Ronaldo V. Wilson |
Farther Traveler |
Counterpath Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2017 |
Ocean Vuong |
Night Sky with Exit Wounds |
Copper Canyon Press |
Winner |
[15][16] |
| Derrick Austin |
Trouble the Water |
BOA Editions |
Finalist |
|
| Phillip B. Williams |
Thief in the Interior |
Alice James Books |
Finalist |
|
| Sjohnna McCray |
Rapture |
Graywolf Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2018 |
Chen Chen |
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities |
BOA Editions |
Winner |
[17] |
| Charif Shanahan |
Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing |
Southern Illinois University Press |
Finalist |
|
| Danez Smith |
Don't Call Us Dead |
Graywolf Press |
Finalist |
|
| Frank Bidart |
Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965–2016 |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Finalist |
|
| 2019 |
Hieu Minh Nguyen |
Not Here |
Coffee House Press |
Winner |
[18] |
| Blas Falconer |
Forgive the Body This Failure |
Four Way Books |
Finalist |
[19] |
| Marcelo Hernandez Castillo |
Cenzontle |
BOA Editions |
Finalist |
[19] |
| Timothy Liu |
Luminous Debris: New and Selected Legerdemain, 1992–2017 |
Barrow Street Press |
Finalist |
[19] |
| 2020 |
Sam Ross |
Company |
Four Way Books |
Winner |
[20][21] |
| Aaron Smith |
The Book of Daniel |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
Finalist |
[22] |
| Angelo Nestore; trans. by Lawrence Schimel |
Impure Acts |
Indolent Books |
Finalist |
[22] |
| Jan-Henry Gray |
Documents |
BOA Editions |
Finalist |
[22] |
| 2021 |
Mark Bibbins |
13th Balloon |
Copper Canyon Press |
Winner |
[23][24] |
| Danez Smith |
Homie |
Graywolf Press |
Finalist |
|
| Jameson Fitzpatrick |
Pricks in the Tapestry |
Birds, LLC |
Finalist |
|
| Tommye Blount |
Fantasia for the Man in Blue |
Four Way Books |
Finalist |
|
| 2022 |
John Keene |
Punks: New & Selected Poems |
The Song Cave |
Winner |
[25] |
| Kevin Simmonds |
The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse |
Northwestern University Press |
Finalist |
|
| Miguel Murphy |
Shoreditch |
Barrow Street Press |
Finalist |
|
| Phillip B. Williams |
Mutiny |
Penguin Books |
Finalist |
|
| 2023 |
Philip Clark and Michael Bronski (ed.) |
Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski |
Rebel Satori Press |
Winner |
[26][27] |
| Eric Tran |
Mouth, Sugar and Smoke |
Diode Editions |
Finalist |
|
| Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué |
Madness |
Nightboat Books |
Finalist |
|
| Saeed Jones |
Alive at the End of the World |
Coffee House Press |
Finalist |
|
| 2024 |
Charif Shanahan |
Trace Evidence |
Tin House |
Winner |
[28][29] |
| Sam Sax |
Pig |
Scribner |
Finalist |
[30] |
| Brian Teare |
Poem Bitten by a Man |
Nightboat Books |
Finalist |
[30] |
| Rigoberto González |
To the Boy Who Was Night |
Four Way Books |
Finalist |
[30] |
| 2025 |
Blas Falconer |
Rara Avis |
Four Way Books |
Winner |
[31] |
| Jubi Arriola-Headley |
Bound |
Persea Books |
Finalist |
[32] |
| Joshua Garcia |
Pentimento |
Black Lawrence Press |
Finalist |
[32] |
| Kevin McLellan |
Sky. Pond. Mouth. |
Yas Press |
Finalist |
[32] |
| 2026 |
Richard Siken |
I Do Know Some Things |
Copper Canyon Press |
Winner |
[33][34][35] |
| Bryan Borland |
Brotherful |
Sibling Rivalry Press |
Finalist |
[36] |
| C. Dale Young |
Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems |
Four Way Books |
Finalist |
[36] |
| Rajiv Mohabir |
Seabeast |
Four Way Books |
Finalist |
[36] |
| Patrick Donnelly |
Willow Hammer |
Four Way Books |
Finalist |
[36] |