2007 Craig Morgan Teicher, Brenda Is in the Room & Other Poems
2006 Jaswinder Bolina, Carrier Wave
2005 Karen Garthe, Frayed escort
2004 Rusty Morrison, Whethering
2003 G. C. Waldrep, Goldbeater's Skin
2002 Robyn Ewing, Chemical Wedding
2001 Geoffrey Nutter, A Summer Evening
2000 Sally Keith, Design
1999 Stephen Burt, Popular Music
1998 Michael White, Palma Cathedral
1997 Catherine Webster, The Thicket Daybreak
1996 Bruce Beasley, Summer Mystagogia
1995 Dean Young, Strike Anywhere