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

Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Benét (Farrar)

The Jury

Wilbur L. Cross(Chair)

Henry S. Canby

Louis Untermeyer

Winners in Poetry

1944 Prize Winners

Byron Price

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