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For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).

The World Doesn't End , by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich )

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Poetry in 1990:

The Jury

Helen Vendler(Chair)

Kenan Professor of English, Harvard University

Garrett Hongo

Director, Creative Writing Program, University of Oregon

Charles Wright*

Professor of English, University of Virginia

Winners in Poetry

1990 Prize Winners