For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, Five hundred dollars ($500).
The Waking , by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday )
The Jury
The Jury
Alfred Kreymborg
Louis Untermeyer
Winners in Poetry
1954 Prize Winners
Herbert L. Block (Herblock)
For a cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin after he died, "You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph."
Don Murray
For a series of editorials on the "New Look" in National Defense which won wide attention for their analysis of changes in American military policy.