For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Franz Wright with the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Middle Earth" by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and "Eyeshot" by Heather McHugh (Wesleyan University Press).