Poetry Center Book Award Winners 1980–present

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2007
Noah Eli Gordon for Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Books)
Judge: Sesshu Foster

2006
Rigoberto Gonzalez for Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (Tupelo Press)
Judge: Bhanu Kapil

2005
Dara Wier for Reverse Rapture (Verse Press)
Judge: Stephen Rodefer

2004
Adrienne Rich for The School Among the Ruins (W.W. Norton)
Judge: Mark McMorris

2003
Fanny Howe for Gone (University of California Press)
Judge: Larry Kearney

2002
Truong Tran for dust and conscience (Apogee Press)
Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera

2001
Anselm Hollo for Notes on the Attractions and Possibilites of Existence: Selected Poems 1965-2000 (Coffee House Press)
Judge: Joanne Kyger

2000
Kevin Davies for Comp. (Edge Books)
Judge: Kevin Killian

1999
Cole Swensen for Try (University of Iowa Press)
Judge: Elizabeth Robinson

1998
Elaine Equi for Voice Over (Coffee House Press)
Judge: Thom Gunn

1997
Belle Waring for Dark Blonde (Sarabande Books)
Judge: Mark Doty

1996
Alicia Suskin Ostriker for The Crack in Everything (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Judge: Toi Derricotte

1995
Robert Wrigley for In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin Books)
Judge: James Tate

1994
Jane Hirschfield for The October Palace (HarperCollins)
Judge: Alison Deming

1993
Barbara Guest for Defensive Rapture (Sun & Moon)
Judge: Ann Lauterbach

1992
Julia Randall for The Path to Fairview: New and Selected Poems
(Louisiana State U. Press)
Judge: Marilyn Hacker

'1991
C.D. Wright for String Light (University of Georgia Press)
Judge: Arthur Sze

1990
Carol Snow for Artist and Model (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Judge: Nathaniel Mackey

1989
Luis J. Rodriguez for Poems Across the Pavement (Tía Chucha Press) and
Adrian C. Louis for Fire Water World (West End Press)
Judge: Jimmy Santiago Baca

1988
Leslie Scalapino for way (North Point Press)
Judge: Alice Notley

1987
Lyn Hejinian for My Life (Sun & Moon)
Judge: Michael Palmer

1986
Yusef Komunyakaa for I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
(Wesleyan University Press)
Judge: David Henderson

1985
Ron Silliman for Paradise (Burning Deck)
Judge: C.D. Wright

1984
Jackson Mac Low for Bloomsday (Station Hill Press) and
Diane Ward for Never Without One (Roof Books)
Judge: Barrett Watten

1983
Larry Eigner for Water/Places/A Time (Black Sparrow Press) and
Laura Moriarty for Persia (Chance Additions)
Judge: Beverly Dahlen

1982
Stephen Rodefer for Four Lectures (The Figures) and
Gloria Frym for Back to Forth (The Figures)
Judge: Anselm Hollo

1981
Alice Notley for How Spring Comes (Toothpaste Press)
and John Hildebidle for The Old Chore (Alice James Books)
Judges: Kathleen Fraser and Jack Marshall

1980
Sharon Olds for Satan Says (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Judges: Sandra Gilbert and Mark Linenthal



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