Premi

Premi

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Pulitzer Poetry

Descrizione

Storia e istituzione

Il Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, istituito nel 1918, è uno dei premi Pulitzer originari, amministrato dalla Columbia University. Viene assegnato annualmente a un libro di poesie pubblicato da un autore americano nell'anno solare precedente.

Obiettivi e missione

Il premio si propone di riconoscere e celebrare l'eccellenza nell'arte poetica, mettendo in luce opere che dimostrano eccezionale merito letterario, originalità e profondità tematica. Nel corso della sua storia, il premio è stato un indicatore significativo del panorama poetico americano, premiando sia poeti affermati che voci emergenti.

Criteri di selezione

I criteri di selezione sono rigorosi e si concentrano sulla qualità artistica, sull'innovazione formale e stilistica, sulla risonanza emotiva e intellettuale e sulla rilevanza culturale dell'opera. La giuria, composta da esperti di poesia, valuta un'ampia gamma di candidature, cercando di individuare quelle che si distinguono per maestria tecnica, visione unica e capacità di toccare e ispirare i lettori.

Importanza e impatto

L'importanza del Premio Pulitzer per la poesia risiede non solo nel prestigio che conferisce ai vincitori, ma anche nel suo ruolo di promozione della poesia presso un pubblico più vasto. Evidenziando opere di eccezionale merito, il riconoscimento contribuisce a fare in modo che la poesia continui a essere una forma d'arte viva e rilevante nella società contemporanea.

Molti poeti che hanno vinto il Pulitzer per la poesia hanno visto le loro carriere ricevere una spinta significativa, con opere che hanno ottenuto maggiore visibilità e sono state ampiamente discusse e studiate.

Caratteristiche distintive

È interessante notare che il premio non viene assegnato per una raccolta complessiva, bensì per uno specifico libro di poesie. In alcune occasioni il premio è stato diviso tra due poeti, sebbene questa pratica sia rara.

Vincitori notevoli

L'elenco dei vincitori comprende alcuni dei nomi più influenti della poesia americana del XX e XXI secolo, tra cui:

  • T.S. Eliot
  • Robert Frost
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Rita Dove
  • Louise Glück
  • e molti altri.

La sua longevità e il suo impatto continuativo ne consolidano lo status di uno dei premi letterari più importanti degli Stati Uniti e del mondo.

Vincitori

2025
Marie Howe

Marie Howe US

New and Selected Poems - A collection drawn from decades of work that mines the day-to-day modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness
2024
Brandon Som

Brandon Som US

Tripas: Poems - A collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage
2023
Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips US

Then the War: And Selected Poems
2022
Diane Seuss

Diane Seuss US

frank: sonnets - A virtuosic collection that inventively expands the sonnet form to confront the messy contradictions of contemporary America
2021
Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz US

Postcolonial Love Poem - A collection of tender
2020
Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown US

The Tradition - A collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence.
2019
Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander US

Be With - A collection of elegies that grapple with sudden loss
2018
Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart US

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 - A volume of unyielding ambition and remarkable scope that mixes long dramatic poems with short elliptical lyrics
2017
Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess US

Olio - For a distinctive work that melds performance art with the deeper art of poetry to explore collective memory and challenge contemporary notions of race and identity.
2016
Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian US

Ozone Journal - Poems that bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.
2015
Gregory Pardlo

Gregory Pardlo US

Digest - Clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America
2014
Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri US

3 Sections - A compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness
2013
Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds US

Stag's Leap - A book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love
2012
Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith US

Life on Mars - A collection of bold
2011
Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan US

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems - A body of work spanning 45 years
2010
Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout US

Versed - A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness
2009
W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin US

The Shadow of Sirius - A collection of luminous
2008
Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz US

Failure
2008
Robert Hass

Robert Hass US

Time and Materials
2007
Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey US

Native Guard
2006
Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson US

Late Wife
2005
Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser US

Delights & Shadows
2004
Franz Wright

Franz Wright US

Walking to Martha's Vineyard
2003
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon US

Moy Sand and Gravel
2002
Carl Dennis

Carl Dennis US

Practical Gods
2001
Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn US

Different Hours
2000
C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams US

Repair
1999
Mark Strand

Mark Strand US

Blizzard of One
1998
Charles Wright

Charles Wright US

Black Zodiac
1997
Lisel Mueller

Lisel Mueller US

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
1996
Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham US

The Dream of the Unified Field
1995
Philip Levine

Philip Levine US

The Simple Truth
1994
Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa US

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
1993
Louise Glück

Louise Glück US

The Wild Iris
1992
James Tate

James Tate US

Selected Poems
1991
Mona Van Duyn

Mona Van Duyn

Near Changes
1990
Charles Simic

Charles Simic RS

The World Doesn't End
1989
Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur US

New and Collected Poems
1988
William Meredith

William Meredith US

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
1987
Rita Dove

Rita Dove

Thomas and Beulah
1986
Henry S. Taylor

Henry S. Taylor US

The Flying Change
1985
Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Kizer

Yin
1984
Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

American Primitive
1983
Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell US

Selected Poems
1982
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath US

The Collected Poems
1981
James Schuyler

James Schuyler US

The Morning of the Poem
1980
Donald Justice

Donald Justice US

Selected Poems
1979
Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren US

Now and Then
1978
Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov US

Collected Poems
1977
James Merrill

James Merrill US

Divine Comedies
1976
John Ashbery

John Ashbery US

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
1975
Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder US

Turtle Island
1974
Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell US

The Dolphin
1973
Maxine Kumin

Maxine Kumin US

Up Country
1972
James Wright

James Wright US

Collected Poems
1971
W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin US

The Carrier of Ladders
1970
Richard Howard

Richard Howard US

Untitled Subjects
1969
George Oppen

George Oppen US

Of Being Numerous
1968
Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht US

The Hard Hours
1967
Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton US

Live or Die
1966
Richard Eberhart

Richard Eberhart US

Selected Poems
1965
John Berryman

John Berryman US

77 Dream Songs
1964
Louis Simpson

Louis Simpson US

At The End Of The Open Road
1963
William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams US

Pictures from Brueghel
1962
Alan Dugan

Alan Dugan US

Poems
1961
Phyllis McGinley

Phyllis McGinley US

Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
1960
W. D. Snodgrass

W. D. Snodgrass US

Heart's Needle
1959
Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz US

Selected Poems 1928-1958
1958
Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren US

Promises: Poems 1954-1956
1957
Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur US

Things of This World
1956
Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop US

Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring
1955
Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens US

Collected Poems
1954
Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke US

The Waking
1953
Archibald Mcleish

Archibald Mcleish US

Collected Poems 1917-1952
1952
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore US

Collected Poems
1951
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg US

Complete Poems
1950
Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks US

Annie Allen
1949
Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck US

Terror and Decorum
1948
W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden GB

The Age of Anxiety
1947
Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell US

Lord Weary's Castle
1945
Karl Shapiro

Karl Shapiro US

V-Letter and Other Poems
1944
Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét US

Western Star
1943
Robert Frost

Robert Frost US

A Witness Tree
1942
William Rose Benét

William Rose Benét US

The Dust Which Is God
1941
Leonard Bacon

Leonard Bacon US

Sunderland Capture
1940
Mark Van Doren

Mark Van Doren US

Collected Poems
1939
John Gould Fletcher

John Gould Fletcher US

Selected Poems
1938
Marya Zaturenska

Marya Zaturenska US

Cold Morning Sky
1937
Robert Frost

Robert Frost US

A Further Range
1936
Robert P. T. Coffin

Robert P. T. Coffin US

Strange Holiness
1935
Audrey Wurdemann

Audrey Wurdemann US

Bright Ambush
1934
Robert Hillyer

Robert Hillyer US

Collected Verse
1933
Archibald Mcleish

Archibald Mcleish US

Conquistador
1932
George Dillon

George Dillon US

The Flowering Stone
1931
Robert Frost

Robert Frost US

Collected Poems
1930
Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken US

Selected Poems
1929
Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét US

John Browns Body
1928
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson US

Tristram
1927
Leonora Speyer

Leonora Speyer US

Fiddler's Farewell
1926
Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell US

What's O'Clock
1925
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson US

The Man Who Died Twice
1924
Robert Frost

Robert Frost US

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
1923
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay --

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry
1922
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson US

Collected Poems
1919
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg US

Corn Huskers
1919
Margaret Widdemer

Margaret Widdemer US

Old Road to Paradise
1918
Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale --

Love Songs