For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
The Dust Which Is God, by William Rose Benet (Dodd)
The Jury
The Jury
W.L. Cross(Chair)
Bliss Perry
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1942 Prize Winners
Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines Herald
For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.
Herbert Lawrence Block of the Newspaper Enterprise Association Service
For "British Plane."
Geoffrey Parsons of the New York Herald Tribune
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.