National Book Award for Poetry — Complete Winners List
16 years of winners · National Book Foundation · Since 1950 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Patricia Smith | — | |
| 2024 | Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | — | |
| 2023 | Craig Santos Perez | — | |
| 2022 | John Keene | — | |
| 2021 | Martín Espada | — | |
| 2020 | Don Mee Choi | — | |
| 2019 | Arthur Sze | — | |
| 2018 | Justin Phillip Reed | — | |
| 2017 | Frank Bidart | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2016 | Daniel Borzutzky | Brooklyn Arts Press | |
| 2015 | Robin Coste Lewis | Knopf | |
| 2014 | Louise Glück | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2013 | Mary Szybist | — | |
| 2012 | David Ferry | — | |
| 2011 | Nikky Finney | TriQuarterly Books | |
| 2010 | Terrance Hayes | Penguin Books |
