YEAR AUTHOR TITLE JUDGE
2004 Jacquelyn Pope Watermark Marie Ponsot
2005 Sigman Byrd Under the Wanderer’s Star Gerald Stern
2006 Steve Fellner Blind Date with Cavafy Denise Duhamel
2007 Karin Randolph Either She Was David Shapiro
2008 Michael Rerick In Ways Impossible to Fold Thylias Moss
2009 Neil de la Flor Almost Dorothy Forrest Gander
2010 Justin Petropoulos Eminent Domain Anne Waldman
2011 Meredith Cole Miniatures Alicia Ostriker
2012 Jason McCall Dear Hero, Cornelius Eady
2013 Tom Beckett Dipstick (Diptych) Charles Bernstein
2014 Christina Olivares No Map of the Earth
Includes Stars Brenda Hillman
2015 Tana Jean Welch Latest Volcano Stephanie Strickland
2016 Robert Gibb After Mark Doty
2017 Geoffrey O’Brien The Blue Hill Meena Alexander
2018 Lynne Thompson Fretwork Jane Hirshfield
2019 Gail Newman Blood Memory Marge Piercy
2020 Tony Trigilio Proof Something Happened Susan Howe
2021 Joanne D. Dwyer Rasa David Lehman