Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
2001 | Marilyn Hacker | Squares and Courtyards | W. W. Norton | Winner | |
Elena Georgiou | Mercy Mercy Me | Painted Leaf Press | Finalist | |
Nancy Boutilier | On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone | Black Sparrow Press | Finalist | |
2002 | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Mr. Bluebird | Painted Leaf Press | Winner | |
Eileen Myles | Skies | Black Sparrow Press | Finalist | |
Letta Neely | Here | Wildheart Press | Finalist | |
2003 | Melanie Braverman | Red | Perugia Press | Winner | |
Eloise Klein Healy | Passing | Red Hen Press | Finalist | |
Martha Serpas | Côte Blanche | New Issues | Finalist | |
2004 | Daphne Gottlieb | Final Girl | Soft Skull Press | Winner | |
Marilyn Hacker | Desesperanto | W. W. Norton | Finalist | |
Minnie Bruce Pratt | The Dirt She Ate | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | |
2005 | Maureen Seaton | Venus Examines Her Breast | Carnegie Mellon University Press | Winner | |
Adrienne Rich | The School Among the Ruins | W. W. Norton | Finalist | |
Lee Ann Roripaugh | Year of the Snake | Southern Illinois University Press | Finalist | |
2006 | Jane Miller | A Palace of Pearls | Copper Canyon Press | Winner | [2] |
Djuna Barnes; edited by Philip Herring and Osias Stutman | Collected Poems with Notes Toward the Memoirs | University of Wisconsin Press | Finalist | |
June Jordan | Directed by Desire | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | |
2007 | Jennifer Rose | Hometown for an Hour | Ohio University Press | Winner | [3] |
Kate Lynn Hibbard | Sleeping Upside Down | Silverfish Review Press | Finalist | |
Robin Becker | The Domain of Perfect Affection | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | |
2008 | Joan Larkin | My Body | Hanging Loose Press | Winner | [4] |
Eileen Myles | Sorry, Tree | Wave Books | Finalist | |
Jennifer Perrine | The Body Is No Machine | New Issues | Finalist | |
2009 | Elizabeth Bradfield | Interpretive Work | Red Hen Press | Winner | [5] |
Elaine Sexton | Causeway | New Issues | Finalist | |
Maureen McLane | Same Life | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | |
2010 | Stacie Cassarino | Zero at the Bone | New Issues Poetry & Prose | Winner | |
Kristin Naca | Bird Eating Bird | HarperPerennial/HarperCollins | Finalist | |
Lee Ann Roripaugh | On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year | Southern Illinois University Press | Finalist | |
2011 | Jen Currin | The Inquisition Yours | Coach House Books | Winner | [6] |
Eleanor Lerman | The Sensual World Re-emerges | Sarabande Books | Finalist | |
Elizabeth J. Colen | Money for Sunsets | Steel Toe Books | Finalist | |
2012 | Minnie Bruce Pratt | Inside the Money Machine | Carolina Wren Press | Winner | |
Christina Hutchins | The Stranger Dissolves | Sixteen Rivers Press | Finalist | |
Rae Gouirand | Open Winter | Bellday Books | Finalist | |
Susan Hawthorne | Cow | Spinifex Press | Finalist | |
2013 | Rachel Rose | Song and Spectacle | Harbour Publishing | Winner | [7] |
Davida Singer | Port of Call | Plain View Press | Finalist | |
Marty McConnell | Wine for a Shotgun | EM Press | Finalist | |
Susan Sherman | The Light That Puts an End to Dreams | Wings Press | Finalist | |
2014 | Angie Estes | Enchantée | Oberlin College Press | Winner | [8][9] |
Hailey Leithauser | Swoop | Graywolf Press | Finalist | [10] |
Kamilah Aisha Moon | She Has a Name | Four Way Books | Finalist | [10] |
Stacey Waite | Butch Geography | Tupelo Press | Finalist | [10] |
2015 | Meg Day | Last Psalm at Sea Level | Barrow Street Press | Winner | [11] |
Beverly Burch | How a Mirage Works | Sixteen Rivers Press | Finalist | |
Ellen Bass | Like a Beggar | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | |
Robin Becker | Tiger Heron | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | |
2016 | Jennifer Perrine | No Confession, No Mass | University of Nebraska Press | Winner | [12] |
Dawn Lundy | Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Bodymap | Mawenzi House/TSAR | Finalist | |
Nickole Brown | Fanny Says | BOA Editions | Finalist | |
2017 | Francine J. Harris | play dead | Alice James Books | Winner | [13][14] |
Donika Kelly | Bestiary | Graywolf Press | Finalist | |
Juliet Patterson | Threnody | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |
Pat Parker, edited by Julie R. Enszer | The Complete Works of Pat Parker | Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press | Finalist | |
2018 | Gabrielle Calvocoressi | Rocket Fantastic | Persea Books | Winner | [15] |
Cassie Pruyn | Lena | Texas Tech University Press | Finalist | |
Duriel E. Harris | No Dictionary of a Living Tongue | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |
Maureen N. McLane | Some Say | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | |
2019 | Margaree Little | Rest | Four Way Books | Winner | [16] |
Alicia Mountain | High Ground Coward | University of Iowa Press | Finalist | [17] |
Brynne Rebele-Henry | Autobiography of a Wound | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | [17] |
Lisa Dordal | Mosaic of the Dark | Black Lawrence Press | Finalist | [17] |
2020 | Shira Erlichman | Odes to Lithium | Alice James Books | Winner | [18][19] |
Carmen Giménez Smith | Be Recorder | Graywolf Press | Finalist | [20] |
Franny Choi | Soft Science | Alice James Books | Finalist | [20] |
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Tonguebreaker | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | [20] |
2021 | Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem | Graywolf Press | Winner | [21][22] |
Ellen Bass | Indigo | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | |
Francine J. Harris | Here Is the Sweet Hand | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | |
Sarah M. Sala | Devil’s Lake | Tolsun Books | Finalist | |
2022 | [Boyce-Taylor] | Mama Phife Represents | Haymarket Books | Winner | [23] |
Donika Kelly | The Renunciations | Graywolf Press | Finalist | |
Minnie Bruce Pratt | Magnified | Wesleyan University Press | Finalist | |
Rosie Stockton | Permanent Volta | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |
2023 | Irena Klepfisz | Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 | Wesleyan University Press | Winner | [24][25] |
Natalie Wee | Beast at Every Threshold | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | |
Rage Hezekiah | Yearn | Diode Editions | Finalist | |
Siaara Freeman | Urbanshee | Button Poetry | Finalist | |
2024 | Leslie Sainz | Have You Been Long Enough at Table | Tin House | Winner | [26][27] |
Alicia Mountain | Four in Hand | BOA Editions | Finalist | [28] |
Candace Williams | I Am the Most Dangerous Thing | Alice James Books | Finalist | [28] |
Destiny Hemphill | motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life | Action Books | Finalist | [28] |