Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Listed below are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

Marya Zaturenska ¹(1938), Cold Morning Sky
Karl Shapiro (1945), V-Letter and Other Poems
Stanley Kunitz (1959), Selected Poems, 1928-1958
Louis Simpson²(1964), At the End of the Open Road
Anthony Hecht (1968), The Hard Hours
George Oppen (1969), Of Being Numerous
Richard Howard (1970), Untitled Subjects
Maxine Kumin (1973), Up Country
Howard Nemerov (1978), Collected Poems
Louise Glück (1993), The Wild Iris
Philip Levine (1995), The Simple Truth
Jorie Graham³ (1996), The Dream of the Unified Field
Lisel Mueller⁴ (1997), Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
Mark Strand (1999), Blizzard of One
C. K. Williams (2000), Repair
Carl Dennis (2002), Practical Gods
Philip Schultz (2008), Failure

NOTES
1. Not widely known to have been Jewish, but according to her son Patrick Gregory's introduction to The Diaries of Marya Zaturenska, edited by Mary Beth Hinton (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2002, p. xvii), "her parents were Jewish." See also The Tenement Saga: The Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers, by Sanford Sternlicht (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 2004, p. 122).
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see The King My Father's Wreck: A Memoir, by Louis Simpson (Story Line Press, 1995, p. 46). Works by Louis Simpson, Anthony Hecht, Richard Howard, Philip Levine, Jorie Graham, and C. K Williams were among those included in a special edition of the Princeton University Library Chronicle (Vol. LXIII, 1-2, Autumn 2001 - Winter 2002) that was devoted to the work of American Jewish writers.
3. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
4. Jewish father (Prof. Fritz Neumann).

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