For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Poems , by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. Press )
The Jury
The Jury
Stanley Kunitz*
Poet and Critic, New York City
Louis Untermeyer
Poet and Critic, Newtown, Connecticut
Winners in Poetry
1962 Prize Winners
Edmund S. Valtman
For "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine," published on August 31, 1961.
Thomas M. Storke
For his forceful editorials calling public attention to the activities of a semi-secret organization known as the John Birch Society.