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For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

Now and Then , by Robert Penn Warren (Random )

The Jury

Louis Simpson(Chair)*

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University

John Ashbery*

Professor of English, Brooklyn College

Nona Balakian

Critic, New York Times Book Review

Winners in Poetry

1979 Prize Winners