| Year | Book | Author |
| 2006 | Late Wife | Claudia Emerson |
| 2005 | Delights & Shadows | Ted Kooser |
| 2004 | Walking into Martha's Vineyard | Franz Wright |
| 2003 | Moy Sand and Gravel | Paul Muldoon |
| 2002 | Practical Gods | Carl Dennis |
| 2001 | Different hours | Stephen Dunn |
| 2000 | Repair: poems | C. K. Williams |
| 1999 | Blizzard of one | Mark Strand |
| 1998 | Black zodiac | Charles Wright |
| 1997 | Alive together: New and selected poems | Lisel Mueller |
| 1996 | The Dream of the unified field | Jorie Graham |
| 1995 | The Simple truth | Philip Levine |
| 1994 | Neon vernacular: New & selected poems | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| 1993 | The Wild iris | Louise Glück |
| 1992 | Selected poems | James Tate |
| 1991 | Near changes | Mona Van Duyn |
| 1990 | The World doesn't end | Charles Simic |
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