For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)

Columbia University President, George Rupp (left), presents Lisel Mueller with the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "The Figured Wheel" by Robert Pinsky (Farrar Straus Giroux), and "The Willow Grove" by Laurie Sheck (Alfred A. Knopf).