For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).

Awarded to Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)

Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Stephen Dunn with the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Pursuit of a Wound" by Sydney Lea (University of Illinois Press), and "The Other Lover" by Bruce Smith (The University of Chicago Press).