English
Department

Creative
Writing

Long River
Review

The Hartford
Financial Group Inc.

1964: Marianne Moore                       
1965: Richard Eberhart                      
1966: John Crowe Ransom             
1967: Robert Lowell                           
1968: John Berryman                          
1969: Stephen Spender                      
1970: Allen Ginsberg                          
1971: Louis Zukofsky                           
1972: Robert Duncan                         
1973: Fr. Daniel Berrigan                    
1974: Anne Sexton                             
1975: Adrienne Rich                           
1976: John Malcom Brinnin               
1977: Richard Wilbur                         
1978: Elizabeth Bishop                       
1979: James Merrill                            
1980: Denise Levertov                        
1981: Anthony Hecht                          
1982: Seamus Heaney                        
1983: Derek Walcott                          
1984: John Ashbery                             
1985: Phillip Levine    

1986: Dennis Brutus                           
1987: Galway Kinnell                         
1988: Stanley Kunitz                           
1989: Gary Snyder                             
1990: Robert Bly                                
1991: June Jordan                              
1992: W.S. Merwin                            
1993: Amiri Baraka                            
1994: Sharon Olds                             
1995: Dave Smith
1996: Caroline Forché                        
1997: Louise Glück                            
1998: Donald Hall                              
1999: Frank Bidart                             
2000: Mark Doty                               
2001: Yusef Komunyakaa                  
2002: C.K. Williams                           
2003: Adrienne Rich                           
2004: Ellen Bryant Voigt                     
2005: Robert Hass 
2006: Gjertrud Schnackenberg
2007: Adam Zagajewski