| 2007 Susan Meyers |
Keep and Give Away |
| 2006 Joanna Catherine Scott |
Fainting at the Uffizi |
| 2005 Shelby Stephenson |
Possum |
| 2004
Julie Suk |
The Dark Takes Aim |
| 2003
Dannye Romine Powell |
The Ecstasy of Regret |
| 2002
Betty Adcock |
Intervale: New and Selected Poems |
| 2001 Robert Morgan |
Topsoil Road |
| 2000 Mary Kratt |
Small Potatoes |
| 1999 Kathryn Stripling Byer |
Black Shawl |
| 1998 James Applewhite |
Daytime and Starlight |
| 1997
Kathryn Kirkpatrick |
The Body's Horizon |
| 1996 Deborah Pope |
Mortal World |
| 1995
Barbara Presnell |
Snake Dreams |
| 1994 Judy Goldman |
Wanting to Know the End |
| 1993 Michael Chitwood |
Salt Works |
| 1992 Stephen Smith |
The Complete Bushnell Hamp Poems |
| 1991 James Seay |
The Light as They Found It |
| 1990 James Applewhite |
Lessons in Soaring |
1989 Betty Adcock
Jim Wayne Miller |
Beholdings
First Light |
| 1988 Peter Makuck |
Pilgrims |
| 1987 R.T. Smith |
Birch-Light |
| 1986 Charles Edward Eaton |
The Work of the Wrench |
| 1985 Elizabeth Sewell |
Acquist |
| 1984 Charles Edward Eaton |
The Thing King |
| 1983 Stephen Knauth |
Night Fishing on Irish Buffalo Creek |
| 1982 Archie R. Ammons |
A Coast of Trees |
| 1981 Fred Chappell |
Earthsleep |
1980
Kathryn Bright Gurkin
Shelby Stephenson |
Terra Amata
Middle Creek Poems |
| 1979
Ann Deagon |
There Is No Balm in Birmingham |
| 1978 P.B. Newman |
House on the Saco |
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1977 John Moses Pipkin |
Half-After Love |