Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

• Canaday, John - The Invisible World: Poems
• Clover, Joshua - Madonna anno domini: Poems
• Cooley, Nicole - Resurrection: Poems
• Deming, Alison Hawthorne - Science and Other Poems
• Doran, Geri - Resin: Poems
• Doyle, Ben - Radio, Radio: Poems
• Jordan, Judy - Carolina Ghost Woods: Poems
• Levi, Jan Heller - Once I Gazed at You in Wonder: Poems
• O'Reilley, Mary Rose - Half Wild: Poems
• Petrosky, Anthony - Jurgis Petraskas: Poems
• Ras, Barbara - Bite Every Sorrow: Poems
• Richman, Jan - Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything: Poems
• Thirkield, Jonathan - The Waker's Corridor: Poems
• Van Doren, Sally - Sex at Noon Taxes: Poems
• Wiese, Anne Pierson - Floating City: Poems
• Yenser, Stephen - The Fire in All Things: Poems