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

Pictures from Brueghel , by William Carlos Williams (New Directions )

The Jury

Stanley Kunitz*

Poet and Critic, New York City

Louis Untermeyer

Poet and Critic, Newtown, Connecticut

Winners in Poetry

1963 Prize Winners

Frank Miller

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"

Ira B. Harkey

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.