List of winners of the Walt Whitman Award
The Walt Whitman Award is a poetry award administered by the Academy of American Poets. Named after poet Walt Whitman, the award is based on a competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book.

List of winners of the Walt Whitman Award

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Year	Poet	Book	Judge

2018	Emily Skaja	Brute (Graywolf Press)	Joy Harjo

2017	Jenny Xie	Eye Level (Graywolf Press)	Juan Felipe Herrera

2016	Mai Der Vang	Afterland (Graywolf Press)	Carolyn Forché

2015	Sjohnna McCray	Rapture (Graywolf Press)	Tracy K. Smith

2014	Hannah Sanghee Park	The Same-Different (LSU Press)	Rae Armantrout

2013	Chris Hosea	Put Your Hands In (LSU Press)	John Ashbery

2012	Matt Rasmussen	Black Aperture (LSU Press)	Jane Hirshfield

2011	Elana Bell	Eyes, Stones (LSU Press)	Fanny Howe

2010	Carl Adamshick	Curses and Wishes (LSU Press)	Marvin Bell

2009	J. Michael Martinez	Heredities (LSU Press)	Juan Felipe Herrera

2008	Jonathan Thirkield	The Waker's Corridor (LSU Press)	Linda Bierds

2007	Sally Van Doren	Sex at Noon Taxes (LSU Press)	August Kleinzahler

2006	Anne Pierson Wiese	Floating City (LSU Press)	Kay Ryan

2005	Mary Rose O'Reilley	Half Wild (LSU Press)	Mary Oliver

2004	Geri Doran	Resin (LSU Press)	Henri Cole

2003	Tony Tost	Invisible Bride (LSU Press)	C D. Wright

2002	Sue Kwock Kim	Notes from the Divided Country (LSU Press)	Yusef Komunyakaa

2001	John Canaday	The Invisible World (LSU Press)	Sherod Santos

2000	Ben Doller	Radio, Radio (LSU Press)	Susan Howe

1999	Judy Jordan	Carolina Ghost Woods (LSU Press)	James Tate

1998	Jan Heller Levi	Once I Gazed at You in Wonder (LSU Press)	Alice Fulton

1997	Barbara Ras	Bite Every Sorrow (LSU Press)	C. K. Williams

1996	Joshua Clover	Madonna anno domini (LSU Press)	Jorie Graham

1995	Nicole Cooley	Resurrection (LSU Press)	Cynthia Macdonald

1994	Jan Richman	Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything (LSU Press)	Robert Pinsky

1993	Alison Hawthorne Deming	Science and Other Poems (LSU Press)	Gerald Stern

1992	Stephen Yenser	The Fire in All Things (LSU Press)	Richard Howard

1991	Greg Glazner	From the Iron Chair (W. W. Norton)	Charles Wright

1990	Elaine Terranova	The Cult of the Right Hand (Doubleday)	Rita Dove

1989	Martha Hollander	The Game of Statues (Atlantic Monthly Press)	W.S. Merwin

1988	April Bernard	Blackbird Bye Bye (Random House)	Amy Clampitt

1987	Judith Baumel	The Weight of Numbers (Wesleyan U. Press)	Mona Van Duyn

1986	Chris Llewellyn	Fragments from the Fire (Viking)	Maxine Kumin

1985	Christianne Balk	Bindweed (Macmillan)	Anthony Hecht

1984	Eric Pankey	For the New Year (Atheneum)	Mark Strand

1983	Christopher Gilbert	Across the Mutual Landscape (Graywolf Press)	Michael S. Harper

1982	Anthony Petrosky	Jurgis Petraskas (Louisiana State University Press)	Philip Levine

1981	Alberto Ríos	Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press)	Donald Justice

1980	Jared Carter	Work, for the Night is Coming (Macmillan)	Galway Kinnell

1979	David Bottoms	Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (Morrow)	Robert Penn Warren

1978	Karen Snow	Wonders (Viking)	Louis Simpson

1977	Lauren Shakely	Guilty Bystander (Random House)	Diane Wakoski

1976	Laura Crafton Gilpin	The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe (Doubleday)	William Stafford

1975	Reg Saner	Climbing into the Roots (Harper & Row)	William Meredith

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Sjohnna McCray is the author of Rapture, winner of the Walt Whitman award of the Academy of American Poets in 2015.

final_sentence: Sjohnna McCray is the author of Rapture, winner of the Walt Whitman award of the Academy of American Poets in 2015.