1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner
![Mixed Company](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580978845-3520-image-3.jpg)
Mixed Company
Alan Shapiro
Respected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, and with equal attention to histor…
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Shortlist
![Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581025475-5939-image-3.jpg)
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994
Jorie Graham
![Meadowlands](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580980511-3657-image-3.jpg)
Meadowlands
Louise Glück
![Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580971648-2961-image-3.jpg)
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
Stanley Kunitz
![The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581020192-5503-image-3.jpg)
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
Robert Pinsky
![The Terrible Stories: Poems](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580954566-1552-image-3.jpg)
The Terrible Stories: Poems
Lucille Clifton
![The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580938174-59988-image-3.jpg)
The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996
James McMichael
![Things That Happen Once: New Poems](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580953900-1497-image-3.jpg)
Things That Happen Once: New Poems
Rodney Jones
![Wise Poison: Poems](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580938995-60056-image-3.jpg)