1950
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
1951
Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
1952
Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
1953
Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1954
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
1955
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
1956
Poems-North and South by Elizabeth Bishop
1957
Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
1958
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
1959
Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz