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For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).

Things of This World , by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt )

The Jury

Alfred Kreymborg

Louis Untermeyer

Winners in Poetry

1957 Prize Winners

Buford Boone

For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956.