For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Collected Poems 1917-1952 , by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton )
The Jury
The Jury
Alfred Kreymborg
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1953 Prize Winners
No author named
For the section of its Sunday newspaper edited by Lester Markel and headed, "Review of the Week," which for seventeen years has brought enlightenment and intelligent commentary to its readers.
Edward D. Kuekes
For "Aftermath."