Willis Prize Winners

- Choose a poet by year - 2025 | Arthur Sze 2023 | Joy Harjo 2021 | Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2019 | Charles Bernstein 2017 | Jean Valentine 2015 | Nathaniel Mackey 2013 | Charles Wright 2011 | Susan Howe 2009 | Allen Grossman 2007 | Frank Bidart 2005 | Jay Wright 2003 | Adrienne Rich 2001 | Louise Glück 1999 | Robert Creeley 1997 | Gary Snyder 1995 | Kenneth Koch 1993 | Mark Strand 1991 | Donald Justice 1991 | Laura Riding Jackson 1989 | Edgar Bowers 1987 | Stanley Kunitz 1985 | John Ashbery 1985 | Fred Chappell 1983 | John Hollander 1983 | Anthony Hecht 1981 | Howard Nemerov 1981 | May Swenson 1979 | W. S. Merwin 1977 | David Ignatow 1975 | A. R. Ammons 1973 | James Merrill 1971 | Richard Wilbur 1971 | Mona Van Duyn 1969 | Karl Shapiro 1969 | John Berryman 1967 | Robert Penn Warren 1965 | Horace Gregory 1962 | Robert Frost 1961 | Richard Eberhart 1961 | John Hall Wheelock 1960 | Yvor Winters 1959 | Delmore Schwartz 1958 | Theodore Roethke 1957 | E. E. Cummings 1956 | Allen Tate 1955 | Conrad Aiken 1954 | Louise Bogan 1954 | Léonie Adams 1953 | W. H. Auden 1952 | Archibald MacLeish 1951 | Marianne Moore 1950 | John Crowe Ransom 1949 | Wallace Stevens 1948 | Ezra Pound

2025 - Razzle Dazzle, by Major Jackson