For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Selected Poems 1928-1958 , by Stanley Kunitz (Little )
The Jury
The Jury
Alfred Kreymborg
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1959 Prize Winners
William H. (Bill) Mauldin
For "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime?" Published on October 30, 1958.
Ralph McGill
For his distinguished editorial writing during 1958 as exemplified in his editorial "A Church, A School...." and for his long, courageous and effective editorial leadership.