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

Awarded to Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)

Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Charles Wright with the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Desire" by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and "The Vigil" by C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).