List of winners of the James Laughlin Award
Laughlin Award Winners (1996–present)
This partial listing is taken from the website of the Academy of American Poets.

List of winners of the James Laughlin Award

Section Title: Laughlin Award Winners (1996–present)
Table Section Text: This partial listing is taken from the website of the Academy of American Poets.

Year	Poet	Book	Judges

2017	sam sax	Bury It	Tyehimba Jess, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Jill McDonough

2016	Mary Hickman	Rayfish	Ellen Bass, Jericho Brown, Carmen Giménez Smith

2015	Kathryn Nuernberger	The End of Pink	Francisco X. Alarcón, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, D. Nurske

2014	Brian Blanchfield	A Several World	Lee Ann Brown, Tina Chang, C. S. Giscombe

2013	Jillian Weise	The Book of Goodbyes	Jeffrey McDaniel, Brenda Shaughnessy, Susan Wheeler

2012	Catherine Barnett	The Game of Boxes	April Bernard, Cyrus Cassells, Dana Levin (poet)

2011	Anna Moschovakis	You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake	Juliana Spahr, Brian Teare, Mónica de la Torre

2010	Michael Dickman	Flies	Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Major Jackson, Michael Ryan

2009	Jennifer K. Sweeney	How to Live on Bread and Music	Robin Becker, Bob Hicok, Afaa M. Weaver

2008	Rusty Morrison	the true keeps calm biding its story	Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, Bruce Smith

2007	Brenda Shaughnessy	Human Dark with Sugar	Peter Gizzi, Matthea Harvey, Caroline Knox

2006	Tracy K. Smith	Duende	Elizabeth Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Terrance Hayes

2005	Barbara Jane Reyes	Poeta en San Francisco	James Longenbach, Susan Stewart, Elizabeth Alexander

2004	Jeff Clark	Music and Suicide	Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Jo Bang, Susan Stewart

2003	Vijay Seshadri	The Long Meadow	Mary Jo Bang, Thom Gunn, Campbell McGrath

2002	Karen Volkman	Spar	Mary Jo Bang, Daniel Hall, Campbell McGrath

2001	Peter Johnson	Miracles & Mortifications	Daniel Hall, Campbell McGrath, Marilyn Nelson

2000	Liz Waldner	A Point Is That Which Has No Part	Agha Shahid Ali, Lynn Emanuel, Marilyn Nelson

1999	Tory Dent	HIV, Mon Amour	Lynn Emanuel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marilyn Nelson

1998	Sandra Alcosser	Except by Nature	Lynn Emanuel, Yusef Komunyakaa, David St. John

1997	Tony Hoagland	Donkey Gospel	Yusef Komunyakaa, Heather McHugh, William Matthews

1996	David Rivard	Wise Poison	Heather McHugh, William Matthews, David St. John

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Peter Johnson is the winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award for Miracles & Mortifications (2001).

final_sentence: Peter Johnson is the winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award for Miracles & Mortifications (2001).