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

Awarded to Blizzard of One by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf)

Columbia University Provost Jonathan R. Cole (left) presents Mark Strand with the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Mysteries of Small Houses" by Alice Notley (Penguin Poets), and "Going Fast" by Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).