For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring , by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton )
The Jury
The Jury
Alfred Kreymborg
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1956 Prize Winners
Robert York
For his cartoon, "Achilles" showing a bulging figure of American prosperity tapering to a weak heel labeled "Farm Prices."
Lauren K. Soth
For the editorial inviting a farm delegation from the Soviet Union to visit Iowa, which led directly to the Russian farm visit to the U.S..