1999 Nick Flynn, Some Ether: Poems (Graywolf Press)
2001 Richard Matthews, The Mill is Burning (Grove Press)
2003 Dana Levin, In the Surgical Theater (Copper Canyon Press)
2005 Yerra Sugarman, Forms of Gone (Sheep Meadow)
2007 Peter Covino, Cut Off the Ears of Winter (New Issues Poetry)
2009 Jeffrey Yang, An Aquarium (Graywolf Press)
2011 Ishion Hutchinson, Far District (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.)
2013 Rowan Ricardo Phillips, The Ground (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Runner-Up:
Tomás Q. Morín, A Larger Country (American Poetry Review)
2015 Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)
2017 Natalie Scenters-Zapico, The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing/Colorado State University)