For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Things of This World , by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt )
The Jury
The Jury
Alfred Kreymborg
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1957 Prize Winners
Tom Little
For "Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?" Published on January 12, 1956.
Buford Boone
For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956.