Bobbitt National Prize Winners
- 2008: Charles Wright for Lifetime Achievement and Bob Hicok for This Clumsy
Living
- 2006: W.S. Merwin for Present Company
- 2004: B.H. Fairchild for Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
- 2002: Alice Fulton for Felt
- 2000: David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
- 1998: Frank Bidart for Desire
- 1996: Kenneth Koch for One Train
- 1994: A.R. Ammons for Garbage
- 1992: Louise Glück for Ararat and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life
- 1990: James Merrill for The Inner Room
