Elliston Poet List
1951 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin
1952 - John Berryman
1953 - Stephen Spender
1954 - Robert Lowell
1955 - Robert Frost
1956 - Peter Viereck
1957 - John Betjeman
1958 - Randall Jarrell
1959 - Karl Shapiro
1960 - David Daiches
1961 - Richard Eberhart
1962 - John Press
1963 - Donald Davie
1964 - Daniel Hoffman
1965 - Denis Donoghue
1966 - Donald Hall
1967 - Donald Justice
1968 - David Wagoner
1969 - John Hollander
1970 - John Wain
1971 - Louis Simpson
1972 - Robert Wallace
1973 - Denise Levertov
1974 - Wendell Berry
1975 - William Stafford
1976 - Gary Snyder
1977 - Philip Levine
1978 - Louise Gluck
1979 - John Ashbery
1980 - Michael Harper
1981 - Carolyn Kizer
1982 - Thom Gunn
1983 - Jon Silkin
1984 - Jean Valentine
1985 - Richard Howard
1986 - Marge Piercy
1987 - Mary Oliver
1988 - Gary Soto
1989 - Marilyn Hacker
1990 - Alfred Corn
1991 - Jane Flanders
1992 - John Haines
1993 - Heather McHugh
1994 - Marilyn Nelson Waniek [married name at time; since divorced]
1995 - David Lehman
1996 - Dave Smith
1997 - Ellen Bryant Voigt
1998 - Jay Wright
1999 - Wyatt Prunty
2000 - Jane Hirshfield
2001 - Rodney Jones
2002 - Henry Taylor
2003 - Linda Gregerson
2004 - C. D. Wright
2005 - Carl Dennis
2006 - Molly Peacock
2007 - David St. John
2008 - John Koethe
2009 - Lynn Emanuel
2010 - Alice Fulton
2011 - Albert Goldbarth
2012 - Terrance Hayes
