2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Incendiary Art: Poems Patricia Smith](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581008285-4523-image-3.jpg)
Incendiary Art: Poems
Patricia Smith
2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Gap Gardening: Selected Poems Rosmarie Waldrop](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581017256-5264-image-3.jpg)
Gap Gardening: Selected Poems
Rosmarie Waldrop
2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 Jorie Graham](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580976254-3306-image-3.jpg)
From the New World: Poems 1976-2014
Jorie Graham
2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580867122-340-image-3.jpg)
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Collected Poems, Ron Padgett](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581032501-6519-image-3.jpg)
Collected Poems,
Ron Padgett
2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Poems 1962-2012 Louise Glück](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580969949-2821-image-3.jpg)
Poems 1962-2012
Louise Glück
2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Double Shadow: Poems Carl Phillips](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581025947-5978-image-3.jpg)
Double Shadow: Poems
Carl Phillips
2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 Maxine Kumin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580940600-60189-image-3.jpg)
Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
Maxine Kumin
2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Practical Water Brenda Hillman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580969355-2772-image-3.jpg)
Practical Water
Brenda Hillman
2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Watching the Spring Festival: Poems Frank Bidart](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580942224-60323-image-3.jpg)
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
Frank Bidart
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Old Heart: Poems Stanley Plumly](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580974266-3142-image-3.jpg)
Old Heart: Poems
Stanley Plumly
2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Ooga-Booga Frederick Seidel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580851776-59308-image-3.jpg)
Ooga-Booga
Frederick Seidel
2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Refusing Heaven: Poems Jack Gilbert](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966699-2553-image-3.jpg)
Refusing Heaven: Poems
Jack Gilbert
2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 Richard Howard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581050400-7722-image-3.jpg)
Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003
Richard Howard
2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Collected Later Poems Anthony Hecht](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581032756-6540-image-3.jpg)
Collected Later Poems
Anthony Hecht
2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Watercourse: Poems Cynthia Zarin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580942115-60314-image-3.jpg)
The Watercourse: Poems
Cynthia Zarin
2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos Anne Carson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581037978-6971-image-3.jpg)
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Anne Carson
2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Throne of Labdacus Gjertrud Schnackenberg](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580953028-1425-image-3.jpg)
The Throne of Labdacus
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Repair: Poems C.K. Williams](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966323-2522-image-3.jpg)
Repair: Poems
C.K. Williams
1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Mysteries of Small Houses Alice Notley](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580852731-59387-image-3.jpg)
Mysteries of Small Houses
Alice Notley
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Black Zodiac Charles Wright](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580870681-634-image-3.jpg)
Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Mixed Company Alan Shapiro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580978845-3520-image-3.jpg)
Mixed Company
Alan Shapiro
1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation Robert Pinsky](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581008031-4502-image-3.jpg)
The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation
Robert Pinsky
1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Angel of History Carolyn Forché](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581038947-7051-image-3.jpg)
The Angel of History
Carolyn Forché
1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![My Alexandria: Poems Mark Doty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580977440-3404-image-3.jpg)
My Alexandria: Poems
Mark Doty
1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![An Atlas of the Difficult World Adrienne Rich](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580873707-884-image-3.jpg)
An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich
1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![What Work Is: Poems Philip Levine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580941047-60226-image-3.jpg)
What Work Is: Poems
Philip Levine
1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems John Caddy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581063883-8209-image-3.jpg)
The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems
John Caddy
1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The One Day Donald Hall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580851836-59313-image-3.jpg)
The One Day
Donald Hall
1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![New and Collected Poems Richard Wilbur](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580852478-59366-image-3.jpg)
New and Collected Poems
Richard Wilbur
1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems William Meredith](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580851329-59271-image-3.jpg)
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
William Meredith
1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Collected Poems, 1948-1984 Derek Walcott](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581032707-6536-image-3.jpg)
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
Derek Walcott
1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Cross Ties: Selected Poems X.J. Kennedy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Cross Ties: Selected Poems
X.J. Kennedy
1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Maximus Poems Charles Olson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580980608-3665-image-3.jpg)
The Maximus Poems
Charles Olson
1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem James Merrill](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem
James Merrill
1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 Allen Ginsberg](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580969997-2825-image-3.jpg)
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980
Allen Ginsberg
1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Three Pieces Ntozake Shange](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580953113-1432-image-3.jpg)
Three Pieces
Ntozake Shange
1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry
![Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News Robert Kelly](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)