Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients +Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.1980Kill the MessengerWinner1981Three PiecesWinner1982Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977–1980Winner1983The Changing Light at SandoverWinner1984The Maximus PoemsWinner1985Cross TiesWinner1986Collected Poems, 1948–1984Winner1987Partial Accounts: New and Selected PoemsWinner1988New and Collected PoemsWinner1989The One Day: A Poem in Three PartsWinner1990The Color of Mesabi BonesWinnerGoing Back to the RiverFinalistGrace Notes: PoemsLeaving Another Kingdom: Selected PoemsWhat Light There Is1991What Work IsWinnerRegion of UnlikenessFinalistStar LedgerSudden Dreams: New and Selected PoemsThe World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-19901992An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991WinnerBread Without Sugar: PoemsFinalistSub Rosa: PoemsThe Father: PoemsThe Wild Iris1993My AlexandriaWinnerAfterworldFinalistHotel Insomnia: A NovelLegends from Camp: PoemsNeon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems1994The Angel of HistoryWinnerBag O’ Diamonds: PoemsFinalistLost CountryMaterialism: PoemsThe Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems1995The Inferno of DanteWinnerCity of SaltFinalistNew and Selected PoemsSong: PoemsSplit Horizon: Poems1996Mixed CompanyWinnerDream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994FinalistMeadowlandsPassing Through: The Later Poems, New and SelectedThe Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996The Terrible Stories: PoemsThe World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996Things That Happen Once: New PoemsWise Poison: Poems1997Black ZodiacWinnerAn Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected PoemsFinalistNatal CommandResurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997 with Christopher MerrillThe Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems1998Mysteries of Small HousesWinnerAmerican Rush: Selected PoemsFinalistThe Folding Cliffs: A NarrativeThe Shape of the Journey: New and Collected PoemsWithout: Poems1999Repair: PoemsWinnerThe DreamhouseFinalistThe Father of the PredicamentsThe Oval Hour: PoemsThe Red Leaves of Night2000The Throne of LabdacusWinnerMen in the Off HoursFinalistPastoralSome Ether: PoemsThe Ledge2001The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 TangosWinnerFelt: PoemsFinalistLandscape with Chainsaw: PoemsSong of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001The Seven Ages2002The Watercourse: PoemsWinnerHazmatFinalistHip LogicNorth Point North: New and Selected PoemsSleeping With the Dictionary2003Collected Later PoemsWinnerDeparture: PoemsFinalistJelly Roll: A BluesMiddle Earth: PoemsThe Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems2004Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963–2003WinnerKeeping My NameFinalistThe Clerk’s Tale: PoemsThe OptimistThe Orchard2005Refusing Heaven: PoemsWinnerLuck Is Luck: PoemsFinalistPennyweight Windows: New & Selected PoemsThe Cachoeira Tales and Other PoemsZeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems2006Ooga-BoogaWinnerBlack BoxFinalistBurning Wyclif: PoemsDarling Vulgarity: PoemsLogorrhea: Poems2007Old Heart: PoemsWinnerLittle BoatFinalistMars Being RedRipple Effect: New and Selected PoemsThe Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-20072008Watching the Spring Festival: PoemsWinnerOursFinalistRare High Meadow of Which I Might DreamSea Change: PoemsThe Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems2009Practical WaterWinner]Open Interval[FinalistApocalyptic Swing: PoemsDearest CreatureWhat the Right Hand Knows2010Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990–2010WinnerFrom Unincorporated Territory: SainaFinalistGod’s OptimismPierce the Skin: Selected PoemsTo See the Earth Before the End of the World2011Double Shadow: PoemsWinnerDevotionsFinalistDisciplineSongs of UnreasonThe Public Gardens: Poems and History2012Poems 1962–2012WinnerAerialFinalistGravesendThe Ground: PoemsUseless Landscape: or A Guide for Boys: Poems2013Collected PoemsWinnerDebts & LessonsFinalistHello, the RosesOn GhostsThe Inside of an Apple2014Citizen: An American LyricWinnerBlood Lyrics: PoemFinalistIn Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011PeaceThe Feel Trio2015From the New World: Poems 1976–2014WinnerChordFinalistShirt in HeavenThe Ruined EleganceVoyage of the Sable Venus2016Gap Gardening: Selected PoemsWinnerA Woman of PropertyFinalistHouse of Lords and Commons: PoemsMr. Memory & Other PoemsWorld of Made and Unmade2017Incendiary Art: PoemsWinnerDaylily Called it A Dangerous MomentFinalistFor the ScribeIn the Language of my Captorsemiautomatic2018Wild is the Wind: PoemsWinnerFeeldFinalistAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinGhost OfStill Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl2019Deaf Republic: PoemsWinnerFelonFinalistOculusDunceBe Recorder2020ObitWinnerBorderland ApocryphaFinalistLove Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and ArtifactsPostcolonial Love PoemThe Age of Phillis2021frank: sonnetsWinnerMaster SufferingFinalistPlaylist for the Apocalypse: PoemsFloaters: PoemsYellow Rain: Poems2022Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems WinnerMartian: The Saint of LonelinessFinalist Ante Body Daughters of Harriet: Poems Customs: Poems 2023Bread and Circus: PoemsWinnerShort Film Starring My Beloved’s Red BroncoFinalistCouplets: A Love StoryMaster: Poems

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