Poetry

What Yusef Komunyakaa learned from a poet — and fellow Pulitzer winner — moved by the dignity of work.

In the work of a poet from an earlier generation, Rae Armantrout finds common ground – and points of departure.

A transplant from Great Britain wins the hearts and minds of Pulitzer juries.

In the briefest of Robert Frost’s lyrics, Kay Ryan finds the poet, as ever, saving himself.

In 1966, at the prizes' 50th anniversary banquet, the three-time Pulitzer winner spoke on what the honor means to a writer