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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

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.