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ダグラス・ウルフ（英語版） for Future Preconditional: A Collection
エド・ドーン（英語版） for Hello, La Jolla
ジェーン・コルテス（英語版） for Mouth on Paper
レスリー・マーモン・シルコウ for 『儀式 (シルコウの小説)（英語版）』
メイメイ・ベルセンブルッゲ（英語版） for Random Possession
ミルトン・ムラヤマ（英語版） for All I Asking for Is My Body
クインシー・トループ（英語版） for Snake Back Solos
ルドルフォ・アナヤ（英語版） for Tortuga, a novel
1981年
アルタ (詩人)（英語版） for Shameless Hussy
アラン・チョン・ラウ（英語版） for Songs for Jadina
ビエンベニード・サントス（英語版） for Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
ヘレン・アダム（英語版） for Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
Lionel Mitchell for Traveling Light
ミゲル・アルガリン（英語版） for On Call
ニコラサ・モーア（英語版） for Felita
ピーター・ブルークラウド（英語版） for Back Then Tomorrow
ロバート・ケリー (詩人)（英語版） for The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
Rose Drachler for The Choice
スーザン・ハウ（英語版） for The Liberties
トニ・ケイド・バンバラ（英語版） for The Salt Eaters
1982年
Al Young for Bodies and Soul
Duane Niatum for Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
E. L. Mayo for Collected Poems E L Mayo
Frank Chin for The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon
Hilton Obenzinger for This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung for Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
Jerome Rothenberg for Pre-Faces and Other Writings
Joyce Carol Thomas for Marked by Fire
Leroy Quintana for Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
Lorna Dee Cervantes for Emplumada
Ronald Phillip Tanaka for The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
Russell Banks for Book of Jamaica
Tato Laviera for Enclave
1983年
Barbara Christian for Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
Cecilia Liang for Chinese Folk Poetry
Evangelina Vigil-Piñón for Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
Harriet Rohmer for Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
James D. Houston for Californians: Searching for the Golden State
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn for Pet food & tropical apparitions
John A. Williams for Click Song, a novel
Joy Kogawa for Obasan
Judy Grahn for The Queen of Wands: Poetry
Nash Candelaria for Not by the Sword
Peter Guralnick for Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Seán Ó Tuama for An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed
1984年
Cecil Brown for Days Without Weather
Gary Snyder for Axe Handles: Poems
Howard Schwartz, Mark Podwal for The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
Imamu Amiri Baraka for Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
Jesús Colón for A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
Joseph Bruchac for Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
Maurice Kenny for The Mama Poems
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for The heat bird
ミネ・オオクボ、『市民13660号（英語版）』
Paule Marshall for Praisesong for the Widow
Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung for Pie-Biter
Thomas McGrath for Echoes inside the labyrinth
Venkatesh Kulkarni for Naked in Deccan
William J. Kennedy for O Albany!
1985年
Angela Jackson for Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen for Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
Colleen J. McElroy for Queen of the Ebony Isles
Gary Soto for Living Up The Street
Peter Irons for Justice at War
Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki for Poets Behind Barbed Wire
Louise Erdrich for Love Medicine, a novel
Maureen Owen for Amelia Earhart
May Sarton for At Seventy: A Journal
Robert Edward Duncan for Ground Work: Before the War
Ron Jones for Say Ray
Sandra Cisneros for The House on Mango Street
Sonia Sanchez for Homegirls and Handgrenades
Julia Vinograd for The Book of Jerusalem
William Oandasan for Round Valley Songs
1986年
Anna Lee Walters for The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa for This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Helen Barolini for The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
Jeff Hannusch for I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
Linda Hogan for Seeing Through the Sun
Miguel Algarín for Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
Natasha Borovsky for A Daughter of the Nobility
Raymond Federman for Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
Susan Howe for My Emily Dickinson
Terence Winch for Irish Musicians/American Friends
トシオ・モリ for Yokohama, California
1987年
Ai for SIN
Ana Castillo for The Mixquiahuala Letters
Cyn Zarco for Cir'cum.nav'i.ga'tion
Daniel McGuire for Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
Dorothy Bryant for Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
Etheridge Knight for The Essential Etheridge Knight
Gary Giddins for Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
Harvey Pekar for The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
James Welch for Fools Crow
John Wieners for Selected Poems: 1958–1984
Juan Felipe Herrera for Face Games
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum for liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
Michael Mayo for Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown for Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
Terry McMillan for Mama
1988年
Allison Blakely for Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
Charles Olson for The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
Daisy Bates for The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
David Halberstam for The Reckoning
Edward Sanders for Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
Gerald Vizenor for Griever: An American Monkey King in China
Jimmy Santiago Baca for Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High for Tight Spaces
Marlon K. Hom for Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
Benjamin Hoff for The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
Ronald Sukenick for Down and in: Life in the Underground
Salvatore La Puma for The Boys of Bensonhurst
トニ・モリスン for Beloved
Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum for Expounding the Doubtful Points
1989年
Alma Luz Villanueva for The Ultraviolet Sky
Askia M. Touré for From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
オードリー・ロード for A Burst of Light
Carolyn Lau for Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
Emory Elliott for Columbia Literary History of the United States
エドゥアルド・ガレアーノ for Genesis
Frank Chin for The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co.
ヘンリー・ルイス・ゲイツ・ジュニア for The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
イサベル・アジェンデ for Eva Luna
J. California Cooper for Homemade Love
Jennifer Stone for Stone's Throw
Josephine Gattuso Hendin for The Right Thing to Do
Leslie Scalapino for way
谷川俊太郎 for Floating the River in Melancholy
Charles Fanning for The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
William Minoru Hohri for Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress